I have some friends in town this week, which marks the first time my pre-law school friends have interacted with my law school friends. See, I used to be a cool kid with a relatively popular blog, a DJ gig at a mid-sized club and a collection of fashionable t-shirts. I yukked it up with strangers.
Now, I occasionally wear sweater vests. I know two people in this whole city that aren't in law school, and they haven't met my law school friends.
On the first day they were in town, I went with the two guests, one male and one female, and a law student. We drank, we ate hamburgers, we drank some more. A few pitchers in, law student and I got into an animated discussion of whether pharmacists should be required to carry the morning after pill. But it wasn't really about that. We're both pro-choice, but the issue was really about the 14th Amendment and intermediate scrutiny and all that good legal stuff. The debate lasted half an hour, during which we didn't notice that the female guest was freaking out about the fact that two guys were arguing so passionately about the morning after pill. Really, we explained, it's not about the pill, it's about the interaction between the state's police power and due process requirements. To someone who hasn't been doing this for the last six months, that isn't a very satisfying answer.
Maybe I should just stick to news, weather and sports when I leave the confines of the law library.
i think you're still safe. my 17-year-old medill friends thought you were funny.