no one likes a bragger

on thursday i went to a law school sponsored speech that was given by the winning attorney of the roe v. wade case in 1973.

you're right. i'm not studying anything that has to do with law. i am, however, in a news writing class where we're required to write a story on 4 different speeches. so thursday was speech number one.

signing our apartment lease took a little longer than we expected so i was running 30 minutes late for the program...but it turns out that i was exactly on time. on time at least for the start of the woman's speech.

she was a short and plump woman, dressed in a bright purple blazer with a tie dye scarf that wrapped around her neck and draped over her left shoulder. her short gray hair was brushed back, revealing two giant golden orbs that dangled from her ears. she pushed up her square spectacles with her right index finger occasionally just as you would imagine a scholarly person doing. and all she did was toot her own horn. it was a shameless session of self-promotion in the guise of an inspirational speech on female leadership. if you can't tell, it annoyed me.

i wasn't there because this woman (who basically legalized the killing of millions of babies) is some sort of heroine to me. i was there to get some sort of information relevant to people so i could write a news story. i was not there to write a profile. but after an hour of sitting there, scribbling down quotes and points, a profile is pretty much all i got.

she said that women are born leaders...then she went into how she went against all odds to go to law school, how she was secretary of this organization and graduated such and such in her class. then she went into a narration of her appearance before the supreme court. how she got a white goose quill pen and an autographed picture of the '73 justices. her best job was working at the white house, where the "small things" were important to her...like weekends at camp david, flying on air force one, etc. of course, she didn't have to be a lawyer to do the things she has done (what??). all this took up about 85% of her lecture and then the inspirational stuff was sprinkled in to satisfy the purpose of the speech.

really her speech should have been titled: "i am a woman and i am a leader so look at me and admire me."