Bizarreness Abounds.

Werd,
So, today, before we went out and knocked on doors and acquired money and letters and inspired legions of middle-aged Americans and led a revolution of suddenly involved senior citizens and working class moms and brought the power structure to its knees..... before all that... we did a hiring blitz at the local college, Montclair State University. This was a surreal experience, for a few reasons.
1) Talking TO college students and not WITH college students, like, AS A FELLOW college student, is bizarre (see today's post title). I had all these lame phrases I dropped to try and convince these cocksure college students with no jobs and no concerns that our office truly is a hip, cool place to work. Phrases like:
2) "Hey, we're hiring people to help the environment. Make trouble; make money."
Kid who took a flyer: "How specifically do you make trouble?"
me (lamely and lowercase): "Um... by exerting pressure on our legislators to focus on issues they otherwise would have ignored."
Kid: "That doesn't sound like trouble to me."
Me (uppercase): "Lawmakers consider it trouble."
Kid: "Oh, good point."
3) I just WAS a college student merely months ago! In fact, for the sake of keeping it simple for the very very old ladies who open doors, I sometimes just say I still am a college student. I lie to old ladies. It has come to that.
So yeah, that was my experience recruiting college students today. Jerks won't know how good they have it sneering at environmental organizers from behind their radical student organization banners until it's too late. Then we'll hire them. =D