So I got a call from the research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California today. They decided to offer the job to somebody else. He said I didn't have enough experience working with large data sets. Poo..
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Expecting a call from a Japanese company looking to hire me to work in Tokyo. Frantically trying to remember my japanese..

Going to bed now. I completely wasted my day today. I don't think I even would have showered except that I did so in order to procrastinate doing something else more productive than taking a shower. In the end, I think it was going to be okay anyways, since taking the shower was the most productive thing I did today. Oh, I also checked the mail. Wait, nevermind - that was last friday... I need to find a job... and quick. =)
Just pushed out a new release of heehorse.com. Most of the work was big back-end changes to geek-diaspora, but I made some minor changes here too - mainly adding pagination for the weblog, and a slight design tweak. I've also removed the link to the Amherst Locator. Some changes to be coming soon is 1) disabling the functionality of the amerst locator, so it is read-only, and adding a whole bunch of pictures I've been scanning in.
Listening to Diana Krall, Nina Simone, and some of my other favorite female jazz singers - what wonderful women... calms your soul and makes your eyes twinkle. even better than homemade chicken noodle soup.

I just finished watching the movie Fail-Safe with my father. It's a very scary look at man, war, and man's war machines, which came out early 60's. It makes me very scared of war. Ironic that we would happen to watch it on this day, since neither of us really knew what the movie was about (my dad rents random movies from netfilx.com).

About the LSAT's. I felt, and have been feeling very ambiguous about them. I definately did not walk out of the room kicking ass. Truth be told, I was seriously considering canceling the scores right there. With the analytical section, the problems I either "get" pretty quickly, or I don't "get" at all ever. In practice, I would get about 50% of all the practice problems I did. During the analyical section on the LSAT I took Saturday, 3 out of the 4 problems kicked my ass. After time ran out, I was pissed, in despair, and panicing - I must have not had gotten more than 30% of the questions correct. Had a hard time concentrating the rest of the test. Then, flipping the page to start the last section of the test, I notice that it's another analytical section. There should only be one. One of them was an experimental one. Fuck! I had been completely caught off guard. I had read somewhere that they only do experimental reading comprehension sections, not analytical ones. If I hadn't assumed that screwing up on the first analyical section doomed my test, I might have concentrated better during the rest of the exam. This last section I did relatively well - I kicked the ass of 3 out of the 4 problems and ran out of time on the fourth - about average to above average. After the exam and comparing notes with other test-takers, I discovered that the analytical section that I farked turned out to be an experimental section (they put different experimental sections in different tests people took that day). Anyways, I really cannot predict what my score will be. I've decided to hold off sending law school apps until I get my score though - I might want to take them again in December before reporting the scores to scools. One thing I would have done differently was to have stopped studying at least 2 days before the actual test. What happened was by the day before, I was so burnt out studying, that I mentally could not go through finishing another exam. This carried over to the actual exam, to a certain extent - I feel that this hurt my performance too. Anyways, I'm crossing my fingers.

Texas-OU weekend. This weekend was redneck-hick weekend in Dallas. It's the weekend where the University of Texas at Austin footbal team meets the Oklahoma University football team, halfway between their two shools, in Dallas. This weekend, a bunch of hicks flood our city from all over the place, showing the true cultural colors of our region of the US. Not impressive, if I must say. Nonetheless, I ended up hanging out at a very Texas bar with one of my few friends in Dallas, who went to UT who was with half a dozen of her old UT buddies who drove into Dallas for the game. Had an okay time - the game was a pathetic showing of UT football skills, but I really didn't care too much either way. Still, it was something different, and it was definately a good people-watching situation. Texas is really a different place. After hanging out with my sister a bit afterwards, I rejoined my UT crowd and we all got drunk.