You have a voice fit for public radio.
More specifically, you have a voice for Emergency Broadcast Network announcements on public radio. Perhaps you could down a few Mountain Dews and rattle off car loan terms at the end of advertisements - commercial radio pays better.
In any case, I only speculate about the possible future uses of your voice because it's hovering over me right now, keeping me from reading Sullivan v. O’Connor 363 Mass. 579, 269 N.E.2d 183 (1973), an enthralling story about plastic surgery gone bad - a common law verson of "'Nip/Tuck."
At first, I thought you were on a cell phone. After all, I can't hear who you're talking to. If you were talking to someone in a normal voice, I should be able to hear them. After reaching a breaking point in my reading, I got up to peek around the pillar to see if you had a study partner. You do. She apparently speaks in normal tones.
You don't.
When I'm trying to differentiate compensatory damages from other restitution, you're saying, "Well, I think the tort law basically says exists to..."
I saw you at orientation and I know that you're a 1L like me. You don't know sh*t about what tort law exists to do. Chances are you can barely remember the combination to your library locker. Of course, actual knowledge never gets in the way of speaking loudly, especially for people who don't know what they don't know.
The worst part of this situation is that there's nothing I can say or do. If I went to the library, I would have to pack up all my stuff, hunt for an open seat and set up all over again, wasting more time than it takes to write this post. I could walk over and tell you to keep it down, but it's still the beginning of the year and I don't want to be "that guy" who demands unusual quiet in public places like this. After all, this is the Atrium and not the library. One should expect a certain level of noise here, louder than the library but softer than... Bluestate. But it isn't the voices richocheting from all corners, it's your voice, your sonorous drone explaining the concept of special damages to someone who is likely wondering at this very moment why she isn't at home watching TV and not having their hard-won knowledge drained and twisted by some lecturing loudmouth.
I hear you on this one! I dunno about law school, but this whole science thing is keeping me crazy busy. Insanely busy. So busy that tort law sounds like lite reading....
CLEARLY, TORT(E) LAW EXISTS TO PRESERVE MY RIGHT TO EAT A THINLY LAYERED CAKE WITH MY COFFEE THIS AFTERNOON.
PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR FULL ATTENTION BECAUSE MY VOICE IS TURNED UP TO ELEVEN.
I AM VERY STUPID.
You know, Americans have a penchant for speaking very loudly in public spaces. I should say "we Americans" but I don't particularly want to include myself as one of the obnoxious Americans.
Right now I am in Stockholm doing grad work. And if there is an American within a good football field radius around me, I will know. They will be the loudest and most oblivious people ever.
This has been my experience in every foreign country.
My personal theory is that Americans think EVERYONE wants to hear EVERYTHING they are saying. It comes with an over inflation of pride. Swedes are the exact opposite, they strive for the lagom - the middle - so they don't suffer from big egos - but at the expense of their personalities.
Surely a good middle ground exists somewhere?
In the meantime, I will enjoy the lack of obnoxiously loud Americans here in Stockholm for as long as possible (tourist season is coming to a rapid close - so any remaining Americans are fleeing).