Good Intentions

And now, for your reading pleasure, Things That Annoy Me (in no particular order):

1. People who espouse their opinions in class. This might shock you–I know, it shocked me too–but I am not paying a Brazilian dollars for law school to hear what you think about a given case/issue/current event/theory/constitutional principle/life event/whatever. If I cared any less, I’d be dead. And even then I’d find some way to rise from the dead and care even less than that. In all honesty, I don’t even want to hear your opinions outside of class–I’m looking at you, People Who Talk Too Loudly in the Carrells–but I especially don’t want to hear it in class. Really. Just shut the hell up and continue frantically taking notes.

2. Professors who ask for student opinions in class. Seriously? You care what we think? Shut up and be a pedagogue; I’m not paying you to pretend to teach by asking incredibly open-ended questions to which there are no real answers. I am not taking Random Gunner’s test, I am taking YOUR TEST. So I only care what YOU THINK.

3. Gunners. Shut the hell up. Seriously.

4. Houston drivers. You all suck. Every last one of you. I know epileptic ADD puppies who can drive better than you can. Use your damn signals! Stay in your damn lane! Drive the damned speed limit!

5. UH parking. You suck so much that sometimes I channel Madelyn Kahn in Clue and “flames…from the side of my face, just…flames…” Instead of putting up an overpriced and ugly “graduate student lofts” building, why not pave some of the gravel/useless areas of campus and put up parking lots? Or economize and build some gigantic-ass parking structures, perhaps by greasing the palms of the City of Houston to have them use their eminent domain powers to condemn, oh, I don’t know, the random Chinese food restaurant on campus, or the generic student church (yes, I went there). Just…do something productive, or I swear by Greyskull that I will not be giving you a red cent of my money in 10 years.

That is all for now. I’m sure there will be more. Oh yes, there will be more.

That was Ben Franklin, some 300 years ago, give or take some change. Still pretty apt today. The man was wise, verily.

I’m putting a moratorium on any political posts on my blog at least until after Election Day, possibly until after Inauguration Day. I seriously can’t handle the misinformation, the misrepresentation, the whining, the shit-talking, the lies, damn lies, and statistics, and just the general idiocy and inanity of both sides.

I think law school has made me more prone to considering both sides of something, and I can see the merit in the general arguments from both sides. You can only get to that nougaty center when you drill down past all the bullshit rhetoric and generalized asshattery/dicketry of the supporters. And I’m seriously tired of it. Stop putting up tweets about it, stop putting up facebook statuses about it, just stop! Please. We don’t care for whom you’re voting, or why. We just don’t. Just go vote and shut up.

Everything about this election has been divisive and severing. There needs to be bipartisan commitment to fixing things, not petty squabbling among factions. This annoys me to no end.

Phew. I feel better now, in some small way.