Leave the Lectures to the Intellectuals

There's a Law Review Symposium lecture today that I have to go to.  If I go, I get credit for a class period that I will (probably) miss in the next couple weeks as the weather gets warmer, my 3L-itis gets more and more pronounced, and class gets less and less interesting.

I don't know if enjoying a lecture series is something unique to the professors or to the truly intellectuals, but I have never found that I get any sort of enjoyment out of it at all.  No matter what the topic, they all seem so ridiculously dry.  I am considering bringing my new Glamour magazine with me.  Is that in bad taste?  Maybe.  But so what? 

The only good thing about having to sit through an hour of generally unprofitable boredom is that there is always a reception following these things.

I have discussed "Tang Time" before.  The receptions are so-called because of the yummy orange drink that the catering people sometimes bring.  The punch is either red or orange, but its the orange that we love.  I have to admit, even the prospect of sitting through a super boring, super long, super elitist Law Review lecture series is made slightly more palatable because I know what comes after.

Here is a picture from the last reception we had, after an incredibly boring lecture on the "vanishing" Fourth Amendment, which was really just Criminal Procedure class all over again. 

But there was bacon wrapped chicken and southwest eggrolls.  Yum. 

And flying WV cookies.  Kind of a WVU tradition.  They say that when you first start school here, you hate them--they taste like cardboard.  But by the end, they become a staple and everyone looks forward to them.  I don't think they taste like cardboard at all; they're just regular sugar cookies.  But being in the shape of the flying WV DOES make them more appealing than they would otherwise be.  Just like putting colored sugar and red and green sprinkles makes them exciting at Christmas time.

This is (obviously) not the Tang to which I referred, but the red punch is also acceptable.  Today, I am bringing my brand new Lexis Nexis Camelback water bottle to the lecture so that, when I leave the lecture and head to my next super boring appointment, I can take Tang with me.  Hopefully its orange.  Its the LEAST the Law Review can do.

Afterwards, I will have thoroughly earned the trip to the gym that I will take.  Well, its worth it for the bacon wrapped chicken.  Even if I have to go to a lecture.  I hope you have a happy hump day!