i seriously have a problem...
...with people who have fixed gear bikes. or at least, that's what andrew just told me. but he's right. and even though i have a dear friend who loves his fixie, i just don't get it.
and don't even get me started on that one kid who is always showing off on his fixie outside of the law school! krista calls him my boyfriend because i hate him so much.
hey! speaking of hatred, the other night i went out for drinks with jenn and her friend mike and this obnoxious classmate of theirs tagged along. never in my life have i felt so violently opposed to someone as i did to this guy! here are some snippets from the conversation:
mike: so, when are you taking the LSAT?
obnoxious kid: in november. i'm going to apply to fordham and american and harvard and penn.
emily: you know, the LSAT isn't offered in november. it's in october and december, though.
o.k.: oh, yeah. right. i'm taking it in october.
o.k.: so, what was your major?
emily: my degree is in english.
o.k.: yeah, so you probably worked with a lot of the Ph.D. grad students, then?
emily: not really. my school didn't have things set up that way.
o.k.: well i went to a major research institution, so...
emily: yeah? i went to the university of notre dame.
o.k.: oh. but it's too bad you had to be in new england...
emily: except that notre dame is in indiana. but i did live in boston for a couple of years after i graduated from college and i loved it!
more fun stuff? he referred to the court before the rehnquist court as the "blackmun court" (friends, justice blackmun was never chief justice), pronounced justice breyer's name like brayer (as if he's a donkey!), confided to me that he's very uncomfortable with the catholic majority on the supreme court right now, and is convinced that scalia is an activist justice. wha?
at one point during the evening, i leaned over the table and said to this kid, "honey, they're going to eat you alive in law school."
but i'm glad i won't have to be there to see it -- one evening with this kid was enough.
posted by emily @ Wednesday, May 17, 2006
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I echo Tiny Dancer's thoughts...except about the boyfriend. Yes you date weird men, but not stupid men...nor overly obnoxious men. Although some of your friends are overly obnoxious. Okay now I'm making no sense. Actually I'm just trying to prolong this comment so that I don't have to go back to work.
scalia being activist is the only thing he got right.
and how, pray, does one "show off" on a fixie. i mean, there are things i can do on a fixie that i can't (or won't) do on a geared bike, but i don't know that it's showing off. on the other hand, i did watch a guy at the ride of silence the other night do a sitting track stand for like 5 minutes solid, which was impressive, but it was the ride of silence and we were all just sitting around doing nothing, so why not -- it was a considerably more impressive / entertaining variation on twiddling one's thumbs.
as far as "getting it" goes, i've spilled enough words trying to explain already. but like most fairly specific tastes, it's not for everyone. i don't understand why some people don't like sushi, but unless their reasons are incredibly obtuse i don't fault them the difference of opinion.
oh moony, i love you dearly, but you know and i know that we're never going to agree on the fixed gear bike thing. it's all part of the charm of our friendship, our own little tom-ah-to/tom-ay-to.
and as for the barco fixie show-off guy, he basically does a lot of track standy, figure-eighty, riding back and forthy type things. and i hate him. because he's not impressive. boring story, huh?
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