My LSAT scores expire next year. I thought they already had, but when I double checked it turned out I took them in '07, not '06, so I have another year. Academic, though: I feel very good about my decision not to go to law school. Still, it's got me thinking. Even though I don't yet know what for, more school is very likely in my future ( Read more... )

Someone posted a quote on something I wrote here a while back:“There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.” - R.D.Laing
I believe that. At first I thought it sounded familiar, like I knew the line, but I looked up Laing and he’s not someone I’ve read or heard ( Read more... )

( Unanticipated upside of my unemployment stint: we qualify for the good financial aid. )

Yesterday afternoon the current phone had an ugly encounter with a hail storm. It still turns on, but each time I wake it up the the screen is a little darker and all it will do is flash the word 'goodbye!' It's actually kind of pitiful ( Read more... )

Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize for Economics.

Paul Krugman is one of my longest-running celebrity crushes. I don't have my 'Krugman's Army' livejournal icon on this computer, but I totally have one. He's the reason I started studying economics. This isn't a surprise, but it's still very cool.

Done and got a full night of sleep. Yay ( Read more... )

Just got asked to talk to a reporter about being an adult harry potter fan.

I feel like something has gone terribly, terribly wrong in my life.

Anyone, uh, got plans the evening of July 21st?

Heather, I'm looking in your general direction.

( while I'm being a dork... )