I had every intention of going to law school.
I had it on The Life Plan™, but at the last minute I didn’t go to that impressive east coast school, deciding instead to follow a really hot girl to the state university.
Then, well, I kinda screwed up my GPA when I didn’t finish a couple of classes on account of getting mono from the girl I dated after I got dumped by Hot-Girl-Who-I-Followed-To-The-State-School.
The next girl I dated, after Mono-Girl who was after Hot-Girl-Who-I Followed-To-The-State-School, actually WENT to law school herself, but something about watching Lawyer-Girl struggle through long hours reading big books with words all squished together… forthwith, heretofore, andbuttothewhatthecatdraggedin… got me all intimidated and suddenly two decades zipped by and now I’m forty… well almost forty… let’s say “forty-adjacent”… and law school isn’t in the cards.
Which is why I’m looking to you to Mr. and Ms. J.D. to, in lawyer speak, DoAmericaASolid…
With each passing second I’m getting more and more convinced our side is going to win the “showing up to vote” part of this election… win it on the Presidential level as well as on the Legislative level… but I want to make sure we also win the “counting the votes” part of the election and that’s where YOU come in.
The Obama campaign is looking for lawyers to help ensure the vote in states where Republicans plan to do whatever they can think of to prevent the votes of Democrats… or more tellingly people who LOOK like Democrats or LIVE IN AREAS populated by Democrats... from counting.
All you have to do is go HERE, give them your information, clear your schedule for election day, and they'll take it from there. Or HERE is a link to a LAWYERS FOR OBAMA page asking for help. And you know who else is looking for... well... you... The National Campaign For Fair Elections whose volunteer page is HERE.
I swear I'd absolutely go HERE or HERE or HERE, but I can't on account of all the Latin I didn't ever manage to learn, but YOU don't have that problem, because you never fell prey to Actress-Who-Liked-The-Concept-Of-You-Better-Than-The Reality-Of-You.*
(*Story too long for this diary.)
Anyway, it is the single most important thing YOU can do to help ensure a President Obama and your chance to show off the fact that YOU didn't succumb to Hot-Girl/Boy-Who-You-Followed-To-The-State-School or Mono-Girl/Boy or the number of other distractions that turned me into this here strange individual.
(Plus I'm told that they everyone who participates gets a coupon for a thousand scoops of free ice cream!)
So, for me, Wife-Of-Me, Son & Daughter of Me and, hell, even Mono-Girl wherever she is…
I'm not exactly sure what qualifies as YOUNG (though I'm sure at 39 1/2 I'm STILL IT), but HERE is a link for YOUNG Lawyers for Obama, which I'm sure you'll all want to get in contact with, if for no other reason then it will allow you to mock OTHERS as old.