Law Student Fears Future of Stuffiness

Every now and then I meet someone who I know will be a positive influence in my life, and I know I need to just grab on and not let go. This is how I feel about Greg, the guy I volunteer for. First, let's face it. A lot of lawyers are just stuffy. Why? Greg is not. He's smart and funny and cool. Sure, I know there are other non-stuffy lawyers out there. The lawyers I used to work for were not stuffy, and I loved them. Also, Sarah is not stuffy. But this fear of impending stuffiness drives me to work at getting good grades. With good grades, I can gain some credibility so that I can wear my pink suit (or my tie suit) and pig-tails to work and launch a stuffy lawyer revolution. Greg runs a great little tenant advocacy non-profit in my neighborhood and volunteering for him has been fun. I look to him for mentorship and advice and am indebted to him most of all for convincing me to quit my job. How else would I have discovered the delightful new sport of Patio-sitting? Anyhoo, I went to the farmer's market to get fresh vegetables the other day to make a tuna nicoise salad. But how lame to go through all that work just for myself. So I invited Greg over for lunch on the patio, after all he works just a few blocks away. We needed to talk about a new volunteer thing I'm doing but of course spent the whole time talking about other things. It was a great lunch and time flew by.

I swear I could sit on that patio all day every day and be the happiest person in the world. I can't even remember how bleak and dark my life must have been without it. What did I do?