Law School Reunions?

So it turns out that my ten year law school graduation anniversary is coming up. (Is it an "anniversary"? Whatever...)

I know this not only because of my wizard-like arithmetical skillz (2009-1999 = 10 ... give me a cookie!) but because efforts have been made by the law school to organize a pair of reunions. The first one is odd for a pair of reasons:

• It was meta-invited, and
• It is a virtual reunion.

I know that being meta-invited to a virtual reunion is pretty standard, but let me explain. The "virtual" part is evidently an effort to reach more people by placing the reunion (which I keep typing "reuinion", for some reason; I'm not going to fix it the rest of this blog, just FYI) on Facebook. I'm not sure exactly how this would work, but it sounds virtual. I suppose we could post pictures of ourselves now and make wall comments about how little law we've practiced and embarrassing drinking and dating (and drinking while dating) stories. That's what it'd be, right?

The "meta-invitation" part is that I learned of this virtual reuinion (see? dammit) via an email. The email said that I had just been invited to the Facebook group. But I hadn't been. It was an email about how I was invited.

It's conceivable that I will meta-virtually attend.

The second reuinion (I wonder if I keep typing that because it's more like "ruin") is one that will be in person, and I actually received an e-vite to it! Unfortunately--at least for me--it is rather specific about what the reuinion will entail:

LET'S GET TOGETHER FOR AN EVENING OF FUN-
LOOK BACK AND LAUGH AT THOSE END OF SEMESTER MARATHON STUDY SESSIONS, SHOW OFF PICTURES OF YOUR FAMILY OR JUST RECONNECT WITH OLD FRIENDS.

At first glance, that it a solid call-to-action, with a reasonable plan based on nostalgia and shared experiences.

The reason that it is unfortunate for me is because I never had end-of-semester marathon study sessions, I don't have pictures of my family to show off (my cat pics need to be updated), and I didn't make any friends in law school.

I didn't make any enemies, either, and I'm not trying to be a prick (for once). I just rarely studied with anyone else (I think I might have, once, in the second semester for a single session for Crim) and I almost never lost any sleep due to academic demands of law school.

I'm not really bragging--my GPA wasn't anything fantastic, and I didn't end up practicing--but I just didn't have many shared experiences with my fellow graduates. My law school experience was doing the reading (most of the time), showing up for class (some of the time) and seeing how much I could understand when I was there.

So will I make the drive down to Portland later this month to attend the reuinion (dammit!) that I was actually invited to? Probably not. If I can ever procure an actual invitation to the other reuinion? I'm so virtually there.