lent and hypocrisy

i'm not christian, so i only really celebrate lent as a matter of convenience. i celebrate when i realize somewhere between february and april that there happens to be something i want to give up. i didnt even realize it was lent until i got mail from my parents which happened to contain a 2007 calendar. upon hanging the calendar and turning it to february i noticed that wednesday was ash wednesday. i didn't see anyone with ash on their face this wednesday because i didn't have any classes that day, so i sure as hell wasn't going to interact with law students then. actually, that's not entirely true, as i played poker wednesday night with 9 other law students, but none had ash.

anyway, it's lent, and i've been feeling a little hypocritical lately. i always bitch about law students. it might even seem as though i hate all law students. i assure you that's not the case. that said, the majority are gigantic douchebags. they think they are funny when they're not. they act like they're so badass when they're not. a law student thinking he or she is badass is the equivalent of the strongest guy in the chess club thinking he's badass. sure, you're badass within your little mileaux, but step out into the real world and you're on your ass. which is partially why i think many law students choose this path...they view this field as either powerful or prestigious (or both) and want to compensate for a lack of power or notoriety earlier in life. but i digress.

the point is i want to give up regularly reading boring blogs. sure, every once in a while i'll check in to see how the perpetual trainwrecks are going, but i would like to waste far less time here. writing is my therapy and its why i write my blog. i enjoy my friends' blogs as a way of communication and entertainment. some other blogs i find either amusing, interesting, thought provoking, or insightful. but really, if you're not any of those 4 things, why am i wasting my time? i enjoy blogs that have even one of those things, you need not have all 4. and that's not to say that some people who write blogs i find boring dont leave interesting or insightful comments, because they do. it's just that things they opt to write about don't interest me. and it really is a matter of my own personal preference here. i am the one reading it, so i will judge it by my standards. that doesn't mean that you, or anyone else, dont like it, but i dont. and it's time to reclaim some daily "dicta time."

so don't take offense if i've unlinked you (or take offense, i dont care). it just means your blog wasn't my style. and really, no one should care what my style is other than me. but my blog was headed in a direction i didnt like, so i'm taking it upon myself to change that. i'm not trying to offend any of you invisible anonymous people out there. but if i do, i would hesitate to immediately become angry with me, and i would first ask myself why it's so important to have my "approval" as given by a link on my blog.

that said, see ya suckers.