in your face

i just did this survey. it was kinda cool. personally, i think that the cop didn't know a homicidal maniac from a sarcastic smirker. kinda scary. my answers had way more in common with john cleese's than with the cop's. does that mean that i am good or bad at interpreting people's expressions? try it yourself, why don't cha, and let me know what you think.

also, loosely related to the topic of people's reactions, i think that i've noticed a weird phenomenon that occurs when certain people find out that i'm going to law school.

this is not about my peeps, who are unreservedly excited for me and 100% positive. (thank you! i love you! you give me strength! i'd eat bees for you!)

this is about some of the people with whom i am only marginally acquainted (i.e. my real estate agent, certain parents of my kids' friends). it is a reaction on utter disbelief.

don't believe me? judge for yourself. for example:

sitting around the kitchen table, signing final house papers, my r.e.a. says something about how 'we' fucked up the moving date. i say, "well, we'd rather be out of here for sept 1 because as i think i mentioned before, i am going to back to school this fall."

she says,"oh, what are you doing in school?" (at which point i realize that she must not have been listening to me the first/second/third time i told her. she must have been busy counting her money in her head.)

so i say politely, "i'm going to law school."

and she cannot contain her shock. really. she stammers, "but don't you have to already have a degree? and don't you have to apply?!"

i say (somewhat stiffly), "yes, i have done those things. and i start in september."

she does not seem embarrassed or apologetic.

maybe i should just get a real estate license and spend my days counting my money in my head.