Law School Was Made For Boring People

Before starting law school, I thought about writing a spec for a kind of Grey’s Anatomy meets Ally McBeal. I imagined a bunch of attractive overachievers who would sleep around and drink too much in between reading casebooks and carrying their hearts on their sleeves in ways that would merit at least a 42-minute drama. But the truth is that law school is far more boring than you’d ever imagine. Sure, some stray cat is always sleeping with some lecherous prof, and sure, a couple of twenty-two year-old children are carving new holes in their septums with crushed Adderal or Ritalin. But mainly law school is shit-full of boring nerds who do their homework while training for marathons and marrying their high school sweethearts and opening sensible, dependable Roth IRAs. You have to search for a fair amount of time to find someone who’s both human AND interesting. Thankfully, I found a handful of good friends, but my TV dreams are nonetheless shattered to pieces. If I could do it all over again, I’d have paid more attention in science classes and then gone to vet school. Then I could have written a sort of Northern Exposure meets Grey’s Anatomy where the moose were substituted with pedigree chocolate labs and the occasional macaw.