Looking Around

Quote of the Day: "Lawyers get paid a lot of money not to have opinions." [Or souls.] -Stephen Colbert

On Tuesday, my professor called me out in class. We had been in class for an hour and 10 minutes and I had turned in my chair. So my professor says: "Yes, Ms. Ditzy, it's 5:10 and we've only gone through one case." To which I replied: "I wasn't looking at the clock..." And I really wasn't looking at the clock - with my computer sitting right in front of me, I don't need to turn 180 degrees to find out what time it is. I bit my tongue and did not finish my sentence. What I really was doing, was looking for black people. That's right. I know it sounds shady but there is a severe lack of diversity* at my school (like a lot of other schools) and after 2.5 years I can honestly say that I'm still not used to it. So, it's become a habit for me to look for at least one other black person while I'm in class. It never occcurs to me to do this before class starts - it always seems to happen after I've been sitting there for a while looking out at everyone in class that I wonder if I'm the only one in there. Which, unfortunately, is fairly often. Anyway, I'm not sure why I bit my tongue. Maybe it's a sign of maturity that I kept my smart ass comments to myself. Maturity is actually for the birds.


*I'm not saying that diversity = black people.