Legal Commentary

Readers, I turn 40 today.  As Dante said, midway through the journey of my life, I find myself within a forest dark.  As usual, I turn to you for help.

For a limited time -- and isn't that kind of the point? -- I invite you to choose my midlife crisis.  I am wide open to suggestions.  I wisely acted early and already purchased my midlife crisis car this summer, so that's out.  But what is a midlife crisis car without the second-childhood-suffering person cruising along inside it?  So I am open to suggestions about what midlife-crisis-characteristic behavior I should engage in before snapping back to my senses.  It's also a good opportunity for you to reflect on what constitutes a fitting set of midlife crisis behaviors for the au courant academic.  My sense is that the midlife crisis behavior that characterized an academic in, say, the 1970s is no longer quite so fashionable, in part because it's a little heavy on the collateral damage and in part because neither EST nor wide-open collars are really the done thing anymore.  But I am willing to hear out your arguments to the contrary.  

Your suggestions are welcome in the comments.  If I select your midlife crisis suggestion, and particularly if it's an expensive one, I'm willing to entertain the possibility of a named sponsorship.  Say, the Jay Wexler Midlife Crisis, or the Paul Horwitz Midlife Crisis, Brought to You by Windows 7 ("I'm Paul Horwitz, and I don't work well either"), or what have you.