Friday night, the Public Interest Law Society at Marquette held their annual Do-Gooder's Auction, named after our late dean, Howard Eisenberg. For the third year in a row, I auctioned off dinner at my house, featuring southern favorites and a sing-a-long. Some very brave students bid the dinner up to $750, so now the pressure is on! I feel like the restaurant that makes the $30 hamburger with foie gras or truffles or whatever. We'll have to pull out all the stops.
I am most excited, however, by what I won at the auction. I won a student. For the low price of $60, a student of mine will be my "entourage for a day." I've been thinking all day about what my entourage can do for me. Obviously, I will not be driving that day. Or going to the cafe to get my green tea. Or making copies. Or carrying anything in my hands at all. Also, theme music will follow me wherever I go. I wonder if babysitting is included? After everything I say, I want my entourage to say, "You go, girl."
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1. Posted by elizabeth nowicki on February 21, 2006 @ 7:45 | Permalink
That is outstanding! $750 - you go, girl! That's basically the cost of a new sofa. . . or snowboard. The students would rather spend $750 to hang out with you than to buy a new snowboard (or a new hard drive or whatever).
I believe I was auctioned-off to our students last Friday (well, a dinner at Nowicki's for four was auctioned-off). I never ask what I went for - it's too stressful. What if the dinner only went for . . . $24.95 (total)? I just don't want to know what I am worth to my students, on a social level, in dollar terms. I imagine it would be too discouraging.
Although, I will say that LAST year (or two years ago), I was told that I went for more than did the dinner with the Dean and his wife at a nice restaurant. Cha-ching! De gustibus non es desputatum (sp?).
Enjoy your groupie! Perhaps he/she will wear the conglomerateblog t-shirt. (Oh, wait, y'all don't have one!)
2. Posted by Entourage Mat on February 23, 2006 @ 3:28 | Permalink
I want a t-shirt! I want my picture posted on the blog!
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