interminglings...

for you folks out there who don't go to barco high, erm, pitt law school, allow me to explain the weekly phenomenon known as "bar review"... the student council, erm, student bar association sponsors drink specials at a different local bar every thursday night. and lotsa law students (heavy on the first years) go. here are things you can expect to encounter at bar review:

1. the same people you see every day at the law school
2. those same people, but a lot drunker, and some of them will be groping each other
3. a whole lot of boring conversations about classes/professors/people you see every day at the law school

yes, i've attended bar review thursdays a few times. i've even managed to enjoy myself on occasion. and i'm proud to say that i've never groped or been groped by a fellow law student (at least not at bar review). but as a general principle, i'd rather not do the bar review scene. because the times i've gone and have had fun have been largely due to the friends that i've gone with, and i don't need an SBA-planned thursday drink special to be with those folks.

with that said, today i got the following e-mail, sent to the all-student list:

This upcoming Thursday, January 19th, the medical
school students will be joining us for Bar Review
at the [NAME OF BAR HERE] in the Strip District from
10pm - close. There will be drink specials and
live music.

The students from the medical school who contacted
us to do the mixer are very excited, so we
encourage everyone to attend. This is a great
opportunity to meet fellow Pitt graduate students.

drink specials? live music??? MEDICAL STUDENTS?!?!?! um, ick. here's the thing -- law students fancy ourselves the left-brained half of cliff and claire huxtable. we all fantasize about finding some sugar mama or daddy with a white coat and a prescription pad to pay off our student loans. so, the thought of a "mixer" with law and med students, particularly one with copious amounts of alcohol, spells total disaster! disaster of biblical proportions! we're talking human sacrifice! dogs and cats living together! mass hysteria!

i'm imagining all the lewd, torrid grossness of the usual all-law-students-all-the-time bar review, but amplified by desperate, overstressed, undersexed law students intent on finding an equally desperate, overstressed, undersexed MD-to-be with which to simulate intimacy. and there will be lots of coors lite. and shots.

but one thing will definitely not be present at this dionysian brouhaha -- me. tomorrow night i'm gonna sit at home, maybe have a couple of whiskey sours, and watch a movie. all by myself. and i'm so looking forward to it!