“Holmes: My dear Watson. It is twelve-thirty now and the depression you had predicted is upon me in full force. But even here in the depth of hopelessness I feel an obligation to making certain Colonel Moran no longer poses a threat to my life. Or, more importantly, to yours. So I am going to confront him now, and quite frankly do not expect to return. Since this may be our last communication, I feel I should explain the very simple matter which I have allowed to become so complicated. I said before that in the last three years I have been around the globe. What I did not say is that in those travels I met countless thousands of people–men and women of every caste and creed, and in general I found the inhabitants of our world to be a seething mass of cowards, bullies, hypocrites, and warmongers. After three years of this it finally occurred to me that the problem with the world is not that there are too many unsolved crimes. The problem is that there are too few people like John Watson. Courageous. Honest. Considerate. Trustworthy. Once I realized this, it seemed logical that I should return to the company of the only person I…the only person who is like you. And to hope and pray that you would welcome me back as your friend. (A beat, then) Whatever happens to me now I hope you will remember me as…your greatest admirer, Sherlock Holmes.”— -Lee Shackleford, Holmes and Watson
Added to the long list im quickly making my way through thank you!!
first, yes I think the fact that you liked those classes and do well in reading/writing is a good sign but the LSAT (law school entrance exam) is just a gauge of whether you can get into law school and is a relatively poor marker of whether you will excel at or enjoy law school itself which is a lot about feeling comfortable in the environment, vining with the classes/method of thinking, entirely writing based exams, and a general willingness to work hard in a “marathon not sprint” fashion (I still sprint but for most adhd folks we have to adapt somewhat to a better work ethic)
I try to be cautious about recommending law school and tell people to ask others as well because i am so biased…it’s been the best decision I’ve made in my life so far and I am so happy and fulfilled and have access to all sorts of opportunities to do work in arenas I’m passionate about because of it. but like not everyone feels this way…my closest friends here are split 50/50 between being like me and being like “I almost dropped out several times but I’m excited for the work i’ll do with the degree but I hated law school”
my brain is well-suited to it and it sounds like yours might be too. I’m adhd too but I like analytical work and reading, I can focus if I’m interested and I was okay with learning the technical, dry rule-based “foundational” classes you take first year (after that you can forge your own course) because it was easy for my brain to accept we needed to learn this stuff to dismantle or critique it later BUT for some people like…not being able to immediately apply and critique this stuff made it super unsatisfying and uninteresting. Also, I’m not usually good at working consistently (preferring to jam it all in at the end) and that’s def an adhd thing…it’s not a dealbreaker but you have to be willing to modify this at least a little bit.
oh also on going to law school and being poor: It’s important to do a full calculus once you get offers but I would not let it stop you from applying and seeing what financial aid/extra school money they throw at you and then doing the debt vs. school’s job success calculus
first, yes I think the fact that you liked those classes and do well in reading/writing is a good sign but the LSAT (law school entrance exam) is just a gauge of whether you can get into law school and is a relatively poor marker of whether you will excel at or enjoy law school itself which is a lot about feeling comfortable in the environment, vining with the classes/method of thinking, entirely writing based exams, and a general willingness to work hard in a “marathon not sprint” fashion (I still sprint but for most adhd folks we have to adapt somewhat to a better work ethic)
I try to be cautious about recommending law school and tell people to ask others as well because i am so biased…it’s been the best decision I’ve made in my life so far and I am so happy and fulfilled and have access to all sorts of opportunities to do work in arenas I’m passionate about because of it. but like not everyone feels this way…my closest friends here are split 50/50 between being like me and being like “I almost dropped out several times but I’m excited for the work i’ll do with the degree but I hated law school”
my brain is well-suited to it and it sounds like yours might be too. I’m adhd too but I like analytical work and reading, I can focus if I’m interested and I was okay with learning the technical, dry rule-based “foundational” classes you take first year (after that you can forge your own course) because it was easy for my brain to accept we needed to learn this stuff to dismantle or critique it later BUT for some people like…not being able to immediately apply and critique this stuff made it super unsatisfying and uninteresting. Also, I’m not usually good at working consistently (preferring to jam it all in at the end) and that’s def an adhd thing…it’s not a dealbreaker but you have to be willing to modify this at least a little bit.
one of the best underrated 30 rock jokes was when hazel tries to be sexy at Tracy by saying something in French and Tray says “thank you woman who speaks the language of the nazis’ most enthusiastic collaborators” just apropros of nothing
Actually the only time I got a comment even in the neighborhood of the Snide Tumblr Dismissal was when I made a PG Wodehouse post and someone was like “LMAO so we’re just gonna stan nazi collaborators now…cool!” LIKE LITERALLY WHY DO YALL TALK LIKE THIS DO YOU SAY THESE THINGS OUT LOUD IN THE WORLD??
I mean or you can be like me and live-blog merlin for three weeks…that’s so bad no one can made snide vagueblogs about it cause like…water is wet!
anywho, I’m not saying any of this because it affects me—no one’s come after my interests cause I defy analysis or call out by blogging about the normiest white teenager interests in an edgy postmodernist way—I’m saying this cause it’s a generally bad look, being needlessly smug when you can be kind and funny
Let’s like…learn to articulate our objections and feelings of discomfort towards media/culture in a way that is intellectually honest and accounts for other people’s experiences/sources of knowledge….I think that’s a better 2019 hobby than just ending every passive aggressive post with lmfao or lol and expecting the reader to mentally fill in why the thing you think is bad…is actually bad
Actually some people have clearly bad intentions and you owe them nothing but if I never see another tumblr-lingo post that’s like “LMFAO all these liberals falling over themselves to like X thing when we all KNOW what happened right?? give me a break” *that gif of Jim Carrey from the Truman show* WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO????
It’s 2019 and y’all are still making snide passive-aggressive posts about how people are problematic for seeing spidervers because of john mulaney or stanning rami malek who as far as I can tell may or may not? secretly support bryan singer? like if I don’t know it’s likely others don’t know either. like really folks if political-critique-of-others-via-their-celebrity-preferences is gonna continue we either need to draw the line somewhere else OR learn to speak in ways that are kind and assume people have good intentions
Actually I could have just ended this post at: it’s 2019 and y’all are still making snide passive-aggressive posts…
It’s 2019 and y’all are still making snide passive-aggressive posts about how people are problematic for seeing spidervers because of john mulaney or stanning rami malek who as far as I can tell may or may not? secretly support bryan singer? like if I don’t know it’s likely others don’t know either. like really folks if political-critique-of-others-via-their-celebrity-preferences is gonna continue we either need to draw the line somewhere else OR learn to speak in ways that are kind and assume people have good intentions
“One of my plays is getting produced!”
“What’s it about?”
“So there’s this guy, and he really loves this one girl– she’s the girl of his dreams. But she’s going off to college. So he applies to every nearby college, just so he can be close to her. But the only college that accepts him is a clown college. But here’s the thing– he’s terrified of clowns.”
I said “quite well”. “Quite well” is not “very well”. I’m satisfied.