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.

So I got off my fat ass tonight and ran 4 miles - woohoo! Soon I'll be looking for a 10k race to run. =)

LSAT's tomorrow. Hope for me that the analytical section won't kick my scrawny little ass.

(See, my ass is magical - it is both fat and scrawny-little)
New favorite quote from the onion:
"Pisces: (Feb. 19—March 20)
Someday you must learn not to run away from your problems. But not today, when your problems are all giant boars."

Happy happy day! I sent in my laptop two days ago to Dell because the hinge thingy was broken, and the screen wouldn't stay up. Being a computer dork, I am not ashamed to say that I missed my laptop and was starting to suffer from computer-withdrawal, but then Dell surprised me by beating their 72 hour turnaround promise, and returned it in 40 hours! Not only that, but they went ahead and replaced the motherboard, LCD screen, and a handfull of other things - all this for a 3 year old laptop - Dell support rocks. The only thing that would have made me happier is if they called me and said, "Heehorse, we accidently blew up your Inspiron 7000 and we don't have any extras around, so we're sending you a Ti-Book instead. Have a nice day."

In other news, I'm finally seeing results on my LSAT studies (I took my 10th full practice test today :D). I've stopped the negative trend - good thing too, as the test is on Saturday.

One more good news item - I just got an email, and a Japanese dot-com company is going to call me sometime next week to do an interview... IN JAPANESE (gulp!). Must quickly try to relearn japanese - hentai desu yo!

And now for something completely different - I picked up my violin today for the first time in a year and a half. I was actually able to whip out the first page of the Mendelssohn with half-decent intonation without my fingers falling off...

Just came back from an Orbital concert - Awesome. I've never really gone to a DJ/electronic music performance before, and I was a bit skeptical, but these guys rocked. I really shouldn't have gone (should have been studying) but it was well worth it...
Went rock climbing with a friend this morning. Was fun as usual, and I got to break in my new climbing shoes. A bit tired though, as I ran three miles yesterday, and swam 1 km the day before. For a lazy fat-ass I'm pretty proud of myself. Hey - if I'm going to be unemployed, I might as well be a healthily unemployed ... ... har har har.
Things on the LSAT front have gone really well - at least momentarily. My last practice-test I got a kick-ass score, and I was all psyched - until I realized (*a day later*) that I had added incorrectly, and that I actually had gotten a mere mediocre score. Talk about feeling dumb in multiple ways...