July 21, 2015

Very weird night, the sleep restful but interrupted three times by waking after extremely vivid dreams. The dreams were about getting past barriers, like roadblocks, and circumventing powerful enemies, not dark, but bright and energizing.
   
Dinner at LAB with M last night, a student from one creative writing class who kept asking me for recommendations for law school. He got in, so I must not have messed that up too much. Our talk was long and merry. His anecdotes from law school and various internship made it seem every bit as alternately hideous and fascinating as one expected. The Law is fascinating; our application of it is almost too squalid to contemplate. His take on the legal system is that everyone is basically lazy, and if you understand that you can slide by a lot of crap. He is happy and handsome, as he was not at school, where he had, according to his own words, “a chip on my shoulder.”
   
DJ says he saw an osprey at Beaver Lake.
   
I contemplate that the worst people in the world today, murderous bigots, liars, the sages of ignorance, are almost to a man religious figures. I would speak for you, Lord, but you make clear what unaccountable company you prefer.