Note on Work: 1

Working for lawyers is so much fun! Their braggadocious self-confidence is so ingratiating! Their patronizing criticisms prove so rewarding! And the work they do is so ennobling that it inspires me to want to be just like them! Every single one of them in their pretty jackets and outlandish ties. "Have you seen Charlie today? No? Well, let me tell you, he's wearing a bow-tie." "Oh Charlie, he's a wild one, that's for sure." chuckle chuckle chuckle. curdle curdle curdle. "Back at the frat house I remember one time when Charlie raped a girl." Wait a minute. That's not funny. Let's change it to, "Back at the frat house I remember one time when Charlie made a pledge rape a goat." There. That's better.

And that pledge grew up to be Mississippi 3rd district Congressman Chip Pickering. I shit you not. I know it's the truth because we used to fool around some. Here's a picture of us after a church picnic in Madison: