Yes Geeklawyer knows that he promised to gossip less and write more law. And he has done. But be honest you do like a bit of gossip don’t you? really.
This weeks gossip is Minor Junior. Yes that dark pernicious force of evil lurking behind Ruthie, he who inspired Dostoevsky to create Svidrigailov, is at it again. Threatened by her love of the blog and jealous of her relationship with Geeklawyer he has been attempting to drag her away by sowing the seeds of doubt. Standing behind her he has been whispering, helpfully, into her ear his concerns over the threats to her career:
“I love the blog Ruthie, and what you do on it. It’s great.
But …
Well…Oh, it’s just that it may come back to haunt you later on. I’m worried about your future prospects for silk. It’d be a shame to lose that because of writing on a blog a few years earlier. Maybe it’d be best if you stopped?
honestly I’m just thinking of you, not me - really.”
Ruthie is smart, but without guile, and she failed to spot the Machiavellian manoeuvrings. Geeklawyer, however, is smarter than Minor Junior and explained it to Ruthie; they both had a good laugh.
Ruthie had lunch with Liadnan too, who by her account made a good impression but was not much like his blog.
Meeting people you only known from online interactions is always strange: so often one is incompatible with people that one likes online and vice versa. What will we all make of LawBlog 2007?
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