There's No Escaping

Have you ever felt like everything around you seems to point to a common theme or just a general commonality? You know when tv shows have an episode title and all of the unrelated events of the show all revolve around that title in a nice little 30 minute to one hour package. (I always thought Ally McBeal, Sex & the City, and Grey's Anatomy did this the best.) So what keeps popping up everywhere around me?

1. Wedding Bells: Definitely not for me yet but it seems like everyone else. Last year one of summer rommates who had just graduated said that all her friends were getting married. That seemed like a foreign concept to me. Little did I know that one year later, I would feel exactly like her. It feels like every other day I'm finding out that my friends got engaged, I'm getting invited to a wedding, my friends at law school are flying out to bridal receptions or weddings, I'm seeing wedding pictures on facebook (soooo many wedding pictures), or my roommate is getting wedding invitations in the mail here. Even today's homily at church was about the sacrement of marriage.

2. California (and how weird everyone there is): ABC sports commentators characterized our football is explosive and our fans as colorful, Sex & the City portrayed as hippie dippy tofu-eating non-smoking want-to-be movie stars, the news says we're trying to steal away the cheese title from Wisconsin, and Law and Order summed it up by saying we're the land of fruits and nuts. Any reference to California in any of my classes usually has to do with how sue-happy we are because it is so easy to bring a lawsuit in the state or how Californians can't deal with adverse weather conditions and thus get into accidents (I wonder where they got that idea, see prior blogs).

3. Syracuse: For a school that I have only recently become attached to merely because of Alex, I see it everywhere now. I read cases occuring in the city of Syracuse. I can't walk down the street without seeing people in Syracuse caps, tshirts, or sweatpants. People's brothers, sisters, fiances went to Syracuse. I wonder if this school has always been so prominent or I'm just starting to notice.

4. The law: Ok, this one is no coincidence and sheerly of my own doing. I see the law everywhere and while watching Law and Order, they went in to this bit about widgets, contracts, and consideration. I shrieked.