08.30.04

Such Great Heights

There are a couple of reasons I might have to drop my communications law class. One, it's an elective. An elective that's apparently going to be a tremendous pain in the ass. After just one class we've already been assigned three chapters to read and six cases to brief. When I dropped out of law school I swore I'd never brief a case again unless it was in exchange for a hand job. Which explains how I allowed myself to teach my ex-girlfriend how to brief a case.

The other reason is this: at the start of the class, our instructor asked everyone what we did over the summer. One guy replied, "Nothing. Worked." A woman announced, "I got divorced." Another woman said, "Had another baby." A third woman declared, "Got closer to God." In a desperate attempt to stop myself from bursting out laughing, I coughed into my fist. Then I looked around the room. It's a small class with maybe thirteen or fourteen students. I observed no stifling of laughter, no rolling of eyes. "Man," I thought to myself. "Fuck these guys."

Back in school for less than a week, and already I sound smarter.

Posted by john at August 30, 2004 03:36 AM
Comments (5)

Yay you finally updated!
I just discovered your site last week (from a Sara B. link) and I wanted to tell you it's pretty entertaining. For a couple days straight I read all of your archives while at work and it saved me from crushing boredom.
Please don't stop posting! Complete strangers are relying on you for daily amusement!

Posted by: Wendy at August 30, 2004 08:05 AM

Oh my - sounds like a real batch of winners. Did you ask how the one lady got closer to God? That is often worth it for the, um, interesting things you get to hear. They are so terribly serious about it, which is funny in and of itself.

Out of 14 students you are either the only one with a brain, the only one with a sense of humor, the only one able to see the humor in people being terribly serious, or the only one who has not mastered the art of keeping a straight face in front of idiots. Heh.

Glad to see you are posting again.

Posted by: Wendryn at August 30, 2004 10:23 PM

Dude. You have enough people named Wendy or Wendolyn or Gwen commenting here, you should amass us and create an army. Or a marching band.

If you go with the marching band idea, I call dibs on the tuba. I already have experience.

Posted by: wendy at August 30, 2004 11:09 PM

We could rival the KISS army!

I wonder if the Wendy's fast food chain would sponser us.......

Posted by: Wendy at August 31, 2004 07:47 AM

sponsor you? but of course!

i'll get right on my first posthumous commercial for the event.

Posted by: dave thomas at August 31, 2004 09:47 AM