i've done a decent amount of work here in the office. maybe 30-45 minutes worth. considering i only got here an hour ago, that is pretty good percentage wise. so i thought i'd average it out with a break.

still no aim here. my cunix account is too filled with junk and old email that i can't quite bring myself to delete. and since i have no admin privileges and the only way i can think of to get around it is to upload the already installed aim from my pc to my cunix and then directly onto this computer, i had to do it in 2 parts. so half of the program is on here now, hopefully by wednesday i'll be up and running. i thought about getting deadaim for the transparency effect, but who really cares. enough to get me in trouble, anyways.

the LSATs - looooooooong, detailed, involved post. only read after 3am in the morning.

we didn't get to longmeadow til 1am in the morning. this would be considered bad by many people. but it wasn't so terrible. first of all, i could have slept on the car ride, but i didn't feel like it. considering i hadn't gone to bed til 4am the previous night, i don't think i would've slept more if i'd arrived at home a few hours earlier. it's just the relaxing time i missed, but it turned out not to be important.

i woke up around 6:45, showered, had some breakfast (really just heated up spaghetti from last night's dinner that we missed), and left with raj for WNEC around 7am. we knew we didn't have to leave that early but since we were up we figured might as well. the admission ticket said report by 8:30, the info sheet advised us to be there by 8, and we actually got there at 7:20. ridiculous. so we sat in the car for a while, making fun of everyone else sitting in their cars with their coffee. then we went to dunkin donuts to get coffee.

i've never liked coffee. so bitter. but i got a medium hazelnut with extra cream and sugar, and it was actually pretty good. i was pleasantly surprised. raj got the breakfast sandwich combo. they mistakenly charged us for only raj's meal, and left out my coffee. score.

drive back to WNEC (the dunkin donuts is about a block away), wait in the lobby for a while. go upstairs and wait for a while. have a somewhat amusing conversation with the other people sitting at our table: a 50ish man with an accent and an acerbic manner, a 25ish married fella, and an anarchic girl probably just out of college. raj and i are in the same room (banik and chang), and our line to get thumbprinted and stuff is no wait (score again). we go in and sit down at the places already demarcated (is that the correct usage of the word?) by little signs with our names on them.

blah blah blah, procedure, fill out stuff, blah blah. our test is held up for maybe 20 minutes by a man on the verge of tears because the proctor won't allow his timer (it was a beast of a watch with multiple functions, but i doubt it a) made noise, or b) contained the answers to the exam). he eventually is allowed to move to a seat facing the clock (which is actually a big deal, seating charts are supposed to be prepared ahead of time and not changed). i almost got in trouble for going to the bathroom without asking permission first. luckily, they decided that i should still be allowed to take the test.

we prob. didn't start til 9:45 or so.

the test is already infinitely better than the one i took in june.
1) one of the proctors was a cute girl. too bad she goes to wnec and is therefore a moron.
2) they had our seating figured out and clearly marked. last time the proctor seated us individually, which took forever.
3) they understood that we had to fill out our information _before_ beginning the exam. and that all the preliminary stuff did _NOT_ come out of our time for section 1. oh my god, that stupid whore in june was so awful.

first section - arguments. easy. finished with over 5 minutes left, and didn't guess on a single one.

second - games. easy! so easy. finished with over 5 minutes left, and didn't guess on a single one.

third - games! 2 games means one is an experimental. this is the best possible scenario for me, since i actually enjoy the games and don't feel drained after doing a section (as opposed to reading comp. good lord). unfortunately, this section is ASS HARD.

6 garments - linen, polyester, rayon, silk, wool, and one other material on six hangers in a closet. i guessed on one.
4 songs - fucking gay sounding songs like rhino rock - played in a certain order on 4 different instruments - drums flute guitar harmonica. i guessed on 2 here.
7 assholes that served on either the finance board or the incentives board. these sons of bitches raped me. guessed on two.
8 motherfuckers sitting around a circular table. the best part is that during the drive to longmeadow, raj mentioned the circular table game from his book. apparently it had not shown up for 5 years but conceivably could come back. good god, this one was ridiculous. i guessed on 3 out of the 6 questions for this game. fucking how many people minimum could sit between manuel and ingrid? hell if i know.

after this section was the break, where raj and i concurred on the ass-hardedness of that last games section. and where we both learned that the other games sections we took were different, thus they were experimental, and therefore worthless.

section four - arguments again. not too bad. finished with 5 minutes left, went back and figured out 3 or 4 questions from the previous section.

section five - reading comp. pretty straightforward. nothing like the jumble of piss and shit that i had to deal with in june. plus i had 2 reading comp sections in june, and they were both shittier than a mexican outhouse. five minutes left, time enough to go back and figure out all the remaining questions but one from section 3.

writing sample - some shit about hosting a conference in either a big city or a remote hotel resort. whatever. i BSed the whole thing.

we left the building around 1:50, after getting to WNEC around 7:20. only 6.5 hours of my life wasted.

so i feel like i did pretty well overall. who knows. for all i know, everyone on average did much much better than in june. so even if i got a good raw score, the percentage might not be as good. and i'll never know how i did in june. but fuck that. i'll be happy if i beat josh. (he's a friend from home. got a 169 or 98%. i'm much smarter than him)

back to work?