reason #256 why i love my school...

just when you thought lawyers couldn't be anymore fun, they blow your socks off with a rousing game of dodgeball.  last friday (i know, i'm reporting on old events) my school had its annual dodgeball tourney.  this is one of the main reasons why i decided to attend pepperdine.  forget the fact that we are in malibu with an incredible view, that we had the chief justice speak at our dinner, that our professors are ranked the highest and we have one of the most infamous lawyers as our deans.  hands down pepperdine is the best choice because of its dodgeball game.

the tourney was held inside the lawschool atrium.  the sba works for about three hours to turn the place into a stadium for champions.  big blue tarps are hung from floor to ceiling on three sides and on the fourth side mesh makes up the wall (this way spectators have a choice between floor seating and peering down from the second floor).  brad was the mc and would play music and give random facts about the teams.  and because we take our rules and our dodgeball seriously, we had three refs to make sure people left the area when they were out.  it was very intense!

unfortunately i didn't have my camera on me (one of the few times too since i always carry it on me for reasons such as this) to capture the amazing costumes...so i will describe them to you.

the winning costumes were from a team named after a radio station (they were something like kf 105...).  when their team was called, 6 people with cardboard boxes painted as law books came wobbling into the arena.  i was incredibly impressed at how amazing their painting skills were and how life like those books were.  the bluebook (remember that post?) was even tabbed (because all first years are terrified into the fact that if their books are not tabbed then we will fail out of law school).  i was trying to figure out how they would play dodgeball with no arms when all of a sudden their arms pushed through the sides of the boxes and a dodgeball team was born!

my friends, the "cereal killers", dressed up as different cereal mascots.  matt was captain crunch, brad was lucky charms, missy was trix, johnny was milk.  it was classic.  some other friends dressed up as "winter wonderland" where one guy was ice (he had a box around his midsection that was wrapped in saran wrap and glitter on his face) and another guy was a polar bear.  in an actual polar bear costume.  i think he threw the ball all of twice.  another team dressed up as malibu's most wanted (they were charlie sheen, mel gibson, amy winehouse, lindsay lohan, nicole richie, and paris hilton - very creative).

then you had your ridiculous teams that took the competition too seriously and did not dress up.  they had names like baron von awesomes and average joes.  and this competition was not just for students.  as always, there was a team made up of faculty (my professor barry mac - he taught con law in london - was on that team), one of faculty kids, and another from the IT department.

it was a rousing good time and by the end of the tourney my voice was hoarse and my smile ear to ear.  i cant wait till next year to see what people come up with then.