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Jury Duty and Circus Journalism Update

Jury Duty Update

As I mentioned, I was called in for Jury Duty, and so I went over to the courthouse today. It wasn’t much fun and I spent most of the day sitting around in a room, fighting sleep, and waiting for someone to tell me where to go next.

I ended up getting placed on a jury, and the trial is expected to last until the end of the week. *sad face*

It’s not all bad though. I am going to be missing summer camp, but at least I’ll have shorter work days for a while. As a matter of fact, I took the extra time that I had today and decided to take a stroll around the city.

I figured I’d head to Faneuil Hall since there is usually several street performers there, and I felt like watching a performance. Long behold, there were two performances running simultaneously in Quincy Market. One was run by a guy I am familiar with who often does escape/magic acts in the area. He was quite good, as usual.

The other performance I only caught the end of. It consisted of two jugglers/acrobats and they had a freestanding ladder rigged up by four audience volunteers. I thought they were especially great because they clearly had been performing/training together for a good while and had a lot of chemistry. They did improv comedy that was very spot-on and funny, to the point that they could almost complete each others sentences. I was impressed.

And since I was so impressed by the performers this afternoon, I decided to make it into a ritual of mine to head to Quincy Market after I’m finished with my jury duty for the day. Hopefully I will be able to see some interesting performances, and I’ll probably flag some down and have a chat with them. Who knows?

Circus Journalism Update

Speaking of which, when I finally got back home today, I checked my email and saw that I am now officially the new Boston Circus Arts Examiner for Examiner.com. I’m super excited! Basically, this means that I will have the honor of covering circus events and performances in the Boston area and publishing those articles on the site.

I think this is great because it will give me an excuse to continue doing this very type of thing that I’m planning on doing this week: watching street performers and other performances in the Boston area and talking to the people who are behind them. I plan to hit the ground running with this, so I’m going to start with the Quincy Market crowd. I’m also going to be working my way toward other outlets.

My new examiner website can be found here: http://www.examiner.com/x-59900-Boston-Circus-Arts-Examiner. Feel free to send me any leads you might have, or otherwise give me feed back. I’m excited to see how this whole thing goes!