Las Pupusas Usuluteñas y el Jurado

I ate pupusas today, and no, I did not make them myself!! There is now a salvadoran restaurant in Salem, and I ate pupusas estilo guanaca today! And they were gigantic! It was interesting to be brought back to eating salvadoran pupusas instead of honduran pupusas - the salvadoran ones are less flavorful, as they lack the tasty chimol (salsa type stuff), but awesome none the less! So I had pupusas with cabbage, red beans, and steamed yellow rice! It was definitely the highlight of my day!

Of course, I didn't take much to have a highlight of my day today outside the jury room. I got called to jury, and kept hoping that there would be a loophole that I could slip through to get out of it, but there wasn't. I think stubborness in stubborn people comes out to the full extent during jury duty. There were two people on the jury who, first off, would NOT shut up, and second, they kept giving these crap suggestions as to why the defendant was not guilty. It was a really lame case, and obviously the defendant was guilty, but these two would not see that! I'm SOOOOOOO glad that Oregon, or at least Marion County, doesn't require a unanimous jury response, we would be there for the next year. So that was my exciting day today - sitting in the courthouse, eating pupusas, and wishing that I could yell at and beat some sense into two obsitnate jurors. Aren't I nice? It's all behind me now, and next time I get called for jury duty, I won't come unless Marion County (will I even still be a resident?) flies me in from Mexico on their dime. So basically, this was a one-time experience. Yay!