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I can't believe it's taken me two years to realize that I need a law icon of some sort. Especially for nights like tonight. OMG *rolls eyes in amusement*

Tangent before I get started: I am going to put together an Ottawa travelogue post soon. It's amazing how time consuming those posts can be or, vice versa, how lazy I can be. But I do want to talk about Ottawa because I really enjoyed it. It's a lovely city.

But, first lawyers. During my entire tenure at law school I haven't done a lot of socializing with other students or professors or what have you. You know me, I'm not the, 'go out to the bar' kind of person, and that is where law-types tend to congregate. Seriously, I really have to learn how to play golf. Oh, you think it's only a stereotype that all lawyers drink and play golf, but, no, it's the absolute truth.

So, yeah, during my time in Toronto I've kind of kept to myself, as is my modus operandi. It was the trip to Ottawa that started changing that. There were fewer students and a few more social opportunities so I started getting to know some people. I even went to the bar one night with three other students. It was amusing and they were fun people to be around but omg the gossip.

You think fandom is bitchy? You don't know bitchy until you get some law students good and sloshed. I learned more about people than I ever wanted to know. The whole foreign study program is kind of a hothouse environment, everyone's roomed in a dorm (mostly) and the majority of them have been together since the second week of May, so they've all fallen into little cliques. Being on the outside watching them is absolutely fascinating. There are the ones who won't stop kissing professors' asses and angling for any sort of advantage, there are the ones that party all of the time, and there are the ones, like me, who work hard and try to just get along. One of the girls who went to Ottawa has kind of adopted me, in that she likes to bend my ear about all of her annoyances with our fellow students. She takes things a little personally but she's good people and she just has very little tolerance for a lot of the political bullshit that goes around in groups like this.

As you can imagine, I've learned a lot in a very short period of time and, let me tell you, fandom's got nothing on law students. And law students don't even have the excuse of not censoring because they're typing away at a keyboard, some of them are just that socially idiotic. Plus, some of the students are fiercely competitive, which only makes them act like even bigger assholes. I guess I really haven't been missing out by not hanging out with law students. My fangirls are better, anyway.

This was all inspired because I just got back from the wrap-up dinner and had to try to put things in perspective. Plus, I'm a little high. I've been feeling crappy all day and couldn't have made it through the dinner without a little chemical assistance. As it is I still had to leave early. Twenty-plus drunk law-types makes for a very loud restaurant and noise and I don't mix all that well anymore.

In closing: law students are bitchy and I imagine lawyers are pretty bitchy, too. And I now completely understand why Kirsten Cohen became an alcoholic, there are some things that you just don't want to do sober. =D

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[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

I think we need to talk about exactly what your TBD Sandy Cohen/law icon should depict :-)

Also! Hey, you high-flyer! Sorry you were feeling crappy, but glad your drugs helped you through the drunkfest.

Love you!