"Several of my friends are now lawyers. They are not the happiest people I know."
I have to disagree. The lawyer friends I know seem pretty happy, actually. How many non-lawyer friends do you know that spend a weekend in Amsterdam every other month? You can't say "happy ending" without "happy", you know. And have you ever seen a lawyer on mushrooms? -- non-stop happiness for about 4-6 hours!
Plus, it is somewhat ironic for you of all people to make a statement about others not being happy - you're not exactly all "sunshine lollipops" when you enter a room. But I mean that in a good way - it's part of your persona and actually can be quite enjoyable (at least for the rest of us). And maybe you really are happy all the time now. I just think that your "happiness spectrum" is little bit skewed over to the miserable side - so that "absolutely freakin' ecstatic" on the Bones happiness spectrum might intersect with something akin to "I feel like I did the day my dog got hit by a bus" on the Happy Lawyer spectrum.
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"Several of my friends are now lawyers. They are not the happiest people I know."
I have to disagree. The lawyer friends I know seem pretty happy, actually. How many non-lawyer friends do you know that spend a weekend in Amsterdam every other month? You can't say "happy ending" without "happy", you know. And have you ever seen a lawyer on mushrooms? -- non-stop happiness for about 4-6 hours!
Plus, it is somewhat ironic for you of all people to make a statement about others not being happy - you're not exactly all "sunshine lollipops" when you enter a room. But I mean that in a good way - it's part of your persona and actually can be quite enjoyable (at least for the rest of us). And maybe you really are happy all the time now. I just think that your "happiness spectrum" is little bit skewed over to the miserable side - so that "absolutely freakin' ecstatic" on the Bones happiness spectrum might intersect with something akin to "I feel like I did the day my dog got hit by a bus" on the Happy Lawyer spectrum.
Yeesh.
On the other hand, reporters are known for being mildly misanthropic, cynical creatures, so perhaps it was a good choice.
Though I still think Sunshine Lollipops Bones could beat up Lawyer-On-Mushrooms anyday.
Of course the happiness comment (and the entire column) was at least partially tongue-in-cheek.
And certainly, the idea is being happy with your job and not just happy when you are chasing hookers and consuming drugs.
But if I needed a defense, one of those mushroom-chomping lawyers wrote to say he liked the column because "it hit close to home."
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Happy Boy.
"Perl on mushrooms" has been banned by the Happy Fungal Society as a danger to himself and others
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