i have written quite a few times about deion already. maybe it's because he's honest about his experiences as a twenty-something, or maybe it's because he's bored at home most of the day and IMs with me while i pretend to work. either way.
deion's actual name is aaron, but in high school he decided his white, 5'3, unathletic, jewish ass was so good at football that he picked the nickname deion, after deion sanders, for himself. (deion's note: "unathletic is untrue. i was an mvp in hockey and played on a traveling team that finished 3rd in the country in one tourney. and i am a terrific baseball player. i'm deceptively unathletic.")
anyway. deion is going to pittsburgh in just a few weeks to begin law school. one of the over-achievers put together a listserv of all the incoming first-years so that they could begin communicating. but what does someone say to 150 people he's never met and that he'll be competing with vigorously for the next 3 years? probably something along the lines of:
"Hi! I'm in section B and living on Alder St. in Shadyside as of August 14th. Looking forward to meeting everyone soon. Have a relaxing end to the summer!"
or
"I'm in section C3. I still don't know when I'll be in Pittsburgh though."
But not deion. here is the e-mail that deion wrote to 150 incoming law students:
I'm Aaron from Miami. (Hi Aaron from Miami!) First off, shout out to Mike for putting this list together which has made us all seem more popular then we actually are by the massive size our e-mailboxes have increased over the past week. I for one am excited when I open my e-mail box and it's something other then an offer for a lower mortgage, or cheap online porn (people pay for online porn? I know I don't). I know a I've contacted a few of you about starting a fantasy football league for us first years. Mike thought it might be a good idea to float the idea. I think it could provide us with an excuse to avoid studying on Sunday so that we can spend all day watching football and it would add competition to those who decide that law school just isn't competitive enough in itself (I mean, I know I heard law school was totally not competitive) and need more of that in their life. If anyone is interested in starting this up, send me an e-mail. And for those of us who have let the Madden Football Series on PS2 or XBox sabotage more then one relationship in their life, I'm thinking of throwing a Madden Bowl party at my apartment before school starts. Alcohol of course will be prominently involved. Anyway, it's getting close to 12am in Miami on a Tuesday night, the parties are about to start (I'm so in for a culture shock) and I've rambled long enough. Hit me up.
- Aaron
P.S. the online porn line was a joke (no guys enjoy porn, seriously)
when deion showed the email to me, my first thought was: "oh deion -- on a listserv of probably some of the stuffiest and least funny twenty-somethings in america, you admitted to loving porn and play station." i assumed he had just committed social suicide.
i couldn't have been more wrong.
turns out that he received somewhere between 20-30 individual responses (all positive, by the way). guess who's gonna be the most popular kid in law school?
what deion didn't write is that he's actually looking for an entourage to go to class and take his exams for him too.
Thursday, August 04, 2005
from short to tort
Posted by: DBR @ 3:00 PM
Twentyiddish is quoted as saying: "guess who’s gonna be the most popular kid in law school?"...
What on earth makes you think that is a good thing??? I have a highly developed theory that people that surround themselves with primarily grad school friends of any kind are in fact social rejects themselves. Lil D better look that shit up. Go ahead, it's science.
That said, I too am deceptively athletic. Much like I am deceptively fat. Well now I am gonna get drunk and head butt kangaroos with Russell Crowe.
stay classy,
JBI
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