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[kellinator]

I know there are some lovely people who are lawyers. Most of the students who come to see me are wonderfully polite, and there's one professor that I just love to get stuff -- even hard-to-find U.N. documents that take hours -- for because he's always so gracious and appreciative. Actually, I have some nice-lawyer stories I've been meaning to write.

But I tend to write about the walking stereotypes, because, well, I'm trying to be funny. I know no one wants to hear about my weight, my love life, or my insecurities, but everyone bitches about their jobs, so, I don't know, it seemed safe.

My whole life I've had this drive to make people laugh, despite being told by plenty of people that I'm just not that funny. I tend to go too far for the laugh.

I spend too much damn time on LiveJournal anyway.

So really: I don't hate lawyers, I just get mad at the ones who treat me poorly and get my petty revenge here.

"If these shadows have offended,
Think but this and all is mended:
I'm just trying to make you laugh... damn, it's been too long since I've written iambic pentameter."

Comments

[dslartoo.livejournal.com]

Repeat after me: "This is MY fucking journal and I can write what I fucking well please here. Beeyotch."

Hm. Needs a little more volume. Try it again.

That's better!

cheers,
Phil

[deza.livejournal.com]

We all deal with setreotypes. Lawyers are sharks; librarians are crochety old virgins with bad hair; doctors make money from playing golf; college professors sleep with co-eds. You know about the stereotypes going into the profession. The challenge is to live your life as proof that the stereotype doesn't hold true. So if someone got on to you for the lawyers/nice people comment, then they need to start showing, in their daily life, that lawyers really can be nice people; not validating the stereotype by bitching about it.

[astrophysicat.livejournal.com]

"If these shadows have offended,
Think but this and all is mended:
I'm just trying to make you laugh... damn, it's been too long since I've written iambic pentameter."

rolling on the floor laughing.

I was once asked to write the jokes for the start of an acapella concert we were giving. "But, I'm not funny" I protested. Never got a heartier laugh in my life. What they didn't get was that I'm almost never funny intentionally. Only incidentally.