Bastards

Delta took away my flight again. Now it's like $2,300, which is really too much. Bastards. I'll check again each day and see, and once it gets below 2K, I'll grab it. If it does. If not, I'll cry. I think they play this game of releasing a few seats each week, so maybe I've got my timing down now - but I can't keep being so wishy washy!

Funniest question I got asked today? "Why are you here, anyway?" OK, she actually said, "Do you mind if I ask you a question? And feel free to say it's none of my business, but do you have like a one-sentence answer to the question about why you came here? You're in several of my classes and based on the things you say, I can tell you're not the "typical" First Choice Law School student, so I've been dying to ask you."

She's lucky that I was being served yummy food simultaneously. And what things do I say? I thought I was keeping a low profile!

And a budding immigration lawyer brought me home. She lives 10 blocks from campus and she drives? Oy.

And some guy, who overheard me answer the question where I'm originally from, leaned over and said, "Every woman I've ever met from Alaska I've found very interesting and I've really liked." Um, ok. Is it that we know how to wrassle grizzlies barehanded? Or chop our own firewood? Or is it how hard our nipples get in the cold?

Somebody else walked over to me after Torts and asked if I used to be an engineer. She was a chemical engineer. I've been meaning to talk to her for a while - she looks like a nice, fun person to hang with, and she tried to start a conversation when I was studying with my schoolgirls yesterday. But I thought she was talking to them (it's the whole Black thing - and not everybody yet knows that I'm not really white, so they don't really talk to me unless I have an entrance like through the cool kids who asked me to study with them - and all the Black kids stick together here, and all the white kids, and all the Asian kids - it's weird - with some exceptions, of course, like me), but she said today she was talking to me yesterday.

See, I KNEW I was playing my cards right. I don't have to be all out there and gushy and personable - the people, they will come to me. I don't think I sound that great in class, but today it got me like five people starting conversations with me, so it works. And I'm the only person whose name my writing teacher remembered.

Like my student Ana Angel used to say, "Cool is on the inside." If people see it and they like me, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine.

Everything I need to know in life I didn't learn in kindergarten - I learned it from teaching 8th grade.

Yesterday my Contracts prof was dismayed that nobody was jumping up with their hands to answer questions - like we used to do two weeks ago. It's of course because his caustic humor makes us feel unsafe in the classroom. He's damn funny, but we're tired of going out on a limb. But, I will prepare now to the best of my ability, and try my best to answer at least three of his questions (he doesn't like it when I ask questions). He's not like my Civil Procedure prof, whom I realized today really knows how to work a room - he has gotten almost every person in there to volunteer answers, and he only makes fun of one kid who is considered the class joke - which is the best way to handle him because he likes to waste classtime on stupid things. My Torts prof, on the other hand, has gone too far in the other extreme - he's such a nice guy and would never disagree with somebody, that we never know what we're supposed to think is right and we go off on all sorts of circuitous paths. Though, I think he's getting better. And he likes me because I answer his questions lots when nobody else will.

OK, I'm procrastinating.