Needless to say, your typical busy law student may be lacking in both of the above. Except for the occasional round of putt putt you might find on the first floor of the library, or that power bar you snuck in to nibble on, the carrel and the laptop screen make up the entire field of vision. However, we always have Facebook and gchat to keep us company, connecting us momentarily with the world outside. On that note, a blog is about the last thing I need to add to that exciting list of activities. I have successfully refused to blog for quite some time. If Hell isn’t frozen right now, it certainly got quite a bit colder. I never understood it; do I really think that other people care what’s going on in my head? It’s like someone from Guttenberg trying to tell me a) where Guttenberg is, and b) why it is relevant to my life: while I may or may not care where it is located, it doesn’t really matter.

My obstinate nature contributed to my refusal to get text messaging and gmail, until pure necessity (and a large amount of incoming texts; ten cents each?? Lame.) required me to get them. Just like the grandparents who won’t get a computer, why would I ever need all those texts? What happened to the days when Facebook was just a college directory? Does anyone remember life before the Wall? Or LOLCats and bumper stickers? No I will not take your “likeness” quiz. How did we pass the time??

As the world around me speeds by, my 24 years are constantly reminded of the “generation gap” that separates me from the 21-year-olds roaming Iowa City. The faster they text, the older I feel. Back in my day, when we had the huge Nokias with one ringtone, we CALLED people! Texting conversations are beyond my comprehension. Can’t we just get a milkshake and socialize?

Which I suppose brings me to the point, now that I’m (hopefully) done with the rhetorical questions for this post: I am pro human interaction. Speaking, talking, socializing; I intend to bring the volume back to conversation. So I’ll post here, one big text message to whomever will read it, but if you care to “comment,” do so, but also comment in person. If I am going to do this blog thing, we are still going to SPEAK and interact. Many have sounded off on our Mets-like collapse in the US News rankings; but it took these new rankings to highlight the underlying problem: communication. Interaction is going to be the key to fostering our community and the camaraderie we need. We’re in a rebuilding year, and I think it’s clear what we need to do: it’s time to start a slow-pitch softball league.

So don’t comment on a post and then not say anything in person the next day; I know you read it. I know that you read your newsfeed and that you know who changed his/her profile picture. We’re all to that point; let’s just own up to it. And now that I’ve said what I’ve come to say, I’m going to get back to making my Facebook page more aesthetically pleasing.