the duty of the citizen

I'm not sure if I'm happy or sad that I had a day off today.  Tomorrow is my first time ever having to go in for jury duty.  I have lived in this county for almost exactly a year and have now received my first summons.  The previous place I lived, I never had jury duty, though that likely had to do with my perpetual full time student status... and the fact that I didn't bother to register to vote when I was there.  I doubt it will be a terrible experience, but I find myself drawn to my bed to just lay and do nothing.  I'm feeling sort of depressed or under the weather.  I don't know if it's just jury duty or a combination of things that have been going through my mind recently, but I know that having jury duty coming so soon certainly has put me out of sorts.  I don't like doing new things alone.  I like to be introduced to them by people either familiar with them or confident in their lack of knowledge.  I have never been to the courthouse in my county, and I have never seen it.  I just know it's in downtown and there will probably be bad traffic and it may be hard to find good parking.  I can take the bus, but that's another thing I haven't done since moving to this place and taking my car is one less new thing to feel overwhelmed with.