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letters pay off

i'm the type of person who writes letters.  i know a person who always wants to write letters to complain or get something their way but never does.  and all i have to say is...letter writing pays off! 

my problem with the lsac regarding the june '05 lsat has been resolved thanks to some crafty letter writing and a begging plea.  they changed the test date although my test center had to change, too (now i have to drive up to the city). instead of rolling out of bed and having a 2 minute drive i going to have a 40-minute drive topped off with a parking crunch.  oh well, i guess i could celebrate after the test.  i find it odd that it's administered on a monday at 12:30 pm.  ugh, why couldn't they have done saturday?!  oh well, i won't complain since they didn't keep my $112, rather they charged me $29.  believe me, i'm super happy about this.

anyways, back to letter writing...

when i lived downtown, there was this parking spot (in front of my complex) that was always available.  according to the signs, it was usually okay to park there but people were scared off by the fact that it was "technically" a 10-minute zone.  anyways, there was a loop hole in their signage and i took full adavantage of the gray zone since it was hard to find parking and the area was too shady to have to walk 5 blocks at night.  this yielded me a dozen or so tickets but i was always willing to take the ticket for the spot because i knew a letter would get me off the hook- and it always did.  my reason for parking there was that their signage was wrong and the cops ticketing me obviously didn't read the sign (well, the fine print) before they ticketed.  i was parking there to prove a point but i guess the dept. of parking & transportation never noticed 12 tickets, 12 letters, and 12 waivers under my account history to put two and two together- that something might be wrong with the sign.  ugh, anyways where am i going with this...

when in doubt, write a letter because they worst they can say is no (and they usually don't).

i must be rich...

if lsac seriously thinks i'm going to forfeit $112 for not changing my feb. 05 lsat test date in time by their deadline.  ok, i know it sounds like they're right but my tpr instructor said the test date change deadline was today!!!!  apparently he was way wrong and i was way stupid for listening to him!!!!  i'm so upset right now.  like i have $112 to forfeit (an another $112 to pay for the june test).  it may as well be a million.  i just emailed them a note begging them to transfer the date but i highly doubt they will.  we'll see how this develops.  need to email tpr to let the instructor know he's an ass and that i'm an ass for believing he'd have accurate info at any point during the course!!!  ugh!!!!!!!!!

busy blogger

i haven't been able to post in a few days because life has been too fast.  studying for the lsat is making me crazy, mainly because the more "prep" classes i endure, the worse my score gets.  last night i took a stand by skipping class, which was a workshop and i spent that time studying on my own.  it was a last minute decision and i'm glad i did it because i made it through some of the "big book of arguments."  the class often confuses me more than the test itself and i think i'm doing worse because i'm trying to take the test their way.  i just talked to a classmate and she said that everybody has gone down and it was a major discussion last night.  can i get a refund?  please!

it was nice to have monday off this week.  it's amazing what a difference one day can make.  i saw million dollar baby (a+) and in good company (b-).  mdb was amazing (and i don't even like boxing!); it deserves all the great recognition that it is receiving!  ralph and i had massages and i wish we could've gotten our money back!  his masseuse had a gas problem and mine was plain weird.  at least i left feeling like i needed a nap which is always a good sign of relaxation (at least for me).  then i had my haircut yesterday.  i don't like it because she put too many different layers around my face.  i feel like a doll that would dance to a sesame street song- if you watched sesame street about 18 years ago, you know what i'm talking about.

i haven't been able to take dog anywhere fun lately.  too many things for me means too few for her.  we'll recover after feb. 12th (the test date).  i guess it doesn't help that the weather has been miserably wet which she refuses to walk in, anyways.

i bought a lotto ticket for tonight and i can feel that i'm not a lott winner this time.  i know i should be optimistic to increase my chance but i really don't think my thoughts control those randomly drawn balls!

i'm famished and in a bad mood.  a co-worker has totally been annoying me and i didn't have enought to eat for lunch- leftover halibut with week old brown rice hardly qualifies as a satisfying lunch.  my oven/stove better be working tonight!  they should give me a per diem for the food i've been having to buy since i can't use the broken oven! 

almost time for more studying.  better go find some food or drink to wake up...

i wish the bachelorette was on tonight.  i'd hate to have to date 20 some odd guys at a time to try to find a husband in less than a few months!  what a major stress!  my life seems real easy after watching that show...

i'm feelin' lucky!

things seem to going in my favor lately...which is rare and appreciated.

the other morning when i walked dog, i found $1 on the sidewalk.  i looked around to make sure it couldn't possibly belong to anyone else who may have dropped it.

this morning as i was looking for some pictures to send to sonal, i found a stack of mail that included a christmas card.  i opened it and became $100 richer.  perfect timing because i needed the $ for lsat reg. and the deadline is today (unless you want to pay a $56 late reg. fee).

to top it off, at lsat class i was one of the few students who hadn't registered for the feb. 05 test (yes, this is good...continue reading).  they told me that there weren't any more seats at santa clara county test centers.  i would have to drive to s.f. or santa cruz at like 7 am!  i began registering and had a seat at usf but it expired because i waited more than an hour to check out.  i did another test center search and santa clara was miraculously available.  that just made my day!  so i have a seat there for feb. 05 exam.  i'm excited despit my 7 pt. drop in diagnostic exam #2.  almost everybody went down this time.  i can only wish for improvements.

today during lunch i left my $20 bill on the deli counter so when i went to pay i only had $1s.  i went back to the counter and it was still there.  thank goodness for honest people.

despite lsat score dive, things are going good!  i played the lotto today- 3 tickets.  i don't normally play but i'm feelin' lucky!  i actually chose a set of numbers and bought 2 quick picks.  wish me and dog some winnings!

i have some funny things to post here so i can read them won a day when i'm not so happy (wild guess but this may be read again on 2/13)...

in response to my oscar party evite anthony responded, "i will bring my tiled carpet from my mansion to your mansion."  the irony of this was enough to make me laugh out loud for 15 minutes at work.  mainly it's humor comes from the fact that his carpet looks like disco linoleum and that our places are seriously 4'X5'.

and debbie sent me some spam mail that made me laugh and think of some interesting moments:

New FDA Alcohol Consumption Warnings


 

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION ALERT


 

Due to increasing product liability litigation, American liquor


manufacturers have accepted the FDA's suggestion that the following


warning labels be placed immediately on all varieties of alcohol 

containers:


 

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may leave you wondering what the


hell happened to your bra.


 

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may make you think you are


whispering when you are NOT.


 

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol is a major factor in dancing like a


retard.


 

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell your friends


over and over and OVER again that you love them.


 

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may cause you to think you can SING.


 

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may lead you to believe that your


ex-lovers are really dying for you to telephone them at four in the


morning.


 

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may make you think you can logically


converse with members of the opposite sex without spitting.


 

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may make you think you have mystical


Kung Fu powers, resulting in you getting your ass kicked.


 

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may cause you to roll over in the


morning and see something really scary lying next to you.


 

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol is the leading cause of inexplicable


rug burns on the forehead, knees and lower back.


 

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that you are


tougher, smarter, faster and better looking than most people -- and may


prompt you to loudly tell them that.


 

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may lead you to believe you are


invisible or (worse) bulletproof.


 

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may lead you to think people are


laughing WITH you.


 

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may cause a disturbance in the


time-space continuum, whereby gaps of time may seem to literally


disappear.


 

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may cause pregnancy.


 

WARNING: the consuption of alcohool mayy Mack you tink you can tipe real


gode.




 

eating bugs

today during lunch i ate a bug.  amanda and i were entering a door where lots of gnats were buzzing around.  as i was talking, one flew into my mouth and stuck to the back of my throat.  ugh...i tried spitting it out which was funny because i was already inside but continued to spit on the carpet since i was so disgusted.  this disgusted those around me.  it was stuck in the back of my throat so i had to drink a soda for the fizz to get it down.  this is the first bug i've ever noticed eating but who knows how many have crawled into my mouth during sleep.

today sucks.  i'm bored and i wish i was on vacation again.  the weather isn't helping either.  dog dislikes it, too.  when i take her out to potty she goes instantly, which is nice of her to keep us out of the rain.  i miss our walks and i bet she does too.  she refuses to walk in the rain and going out for potty is met with much resistance.  where else does she expect to go?  my bed?!  hopefully not!  to make up for her walks, she's been playing with her boyfriend next door, dolce (the pug neighbor).  when she comes home from dolce's house she is exhausted!  i watched the bachelorette last night and she snoozed on my legs.

i'm annoyed at princeton review right now.  i logged into my "student account" to check on lsat diagnostic #2 score and it was a lot lower than my first diagnostic.  how can that be?  well, as i was looking at my previous score, i noticed that the score on my analysis sheet was different that what i saw online.  i'm hoping both were entered incorrectly- probably the case if our instructor was entering them.  i'll find out for sure at tonight's class when i get the analysis sheet.  if i've gone down, i feel i must wait for the test after february.  :( 

i can't workout tonight because i have class until 9 pm and i'd like to relax before bed.  i have to do the pilates tape for sure!  i'm trying to work out everyday- one day at the gym, days that i have class: at home.  we'll see how long this lasts.  i emailed a personal trainer and she's $70 per session.  i'm not sure that i'm that desperate yet.  we'll see where my own motivation takes me and i'll use her as a last resort.

current netflix:

the village: a-

little black book: tba

cardio bellydancing (oddly enough this had the longest wait to receive.  it was listed as "very long wait": tba

acid reflux

last night's lsat class was one of the most miserable yet (though i've mised 2 so i'm not sure my judgment is fair at this point).  it was a "games" night so we worked on "in and out" games which are by far my least favorite.  i really disliked spending 3 hours on a game type that i would totally skip on the real test anyways.  oh well, i did learn some random stuff about symbolic logic and contrapositives.  oh, and birds in the forest- that's what one of the games was about.  how many birds would be in the forest?  honestly, who cares about birds in the forest?!  there's a reason i'm not going to graduate school for (insert word here meaning the study of birds- will find later).  during our break i bought cheez-itz from a vending machince.  they tasted like cinnamon but that may have been because the flavor of thai sweet and sour chicken was still in my mouth, or it could be that they were sitting in the vending machine for longer than i'd care to know.  the cheez-itz, the odd food combo, and/or the "birds in the forest" game gave me acid reflux, or at least what i imagine acid reflux must feel or be like.  i kind of puked some acidic stuff but it went back down the tube.  yeah, i know this is disgusting but believe me, it felt 100 times worse than what i just described.  long story short, i can see why ashlee simpson would act like a nut on snl if she's always getting this battery-acid like stuff in her mouth and throat.  she should probably quit singing while she's ahead.

one of the most annoying things during lsat class was the fact that our teacher had a portable tv to watch the trojans game.  every half hour he'd get text messages from somebody and he'd interrupt the "games" to write the score on the board- ok, like any of us paying lots of $ to be in this class care about the score!!!  my favorite moment was when he was teaching us symbolic logic and he was totally confusing us and all the class was correcting him because he got it backwards, and then he said, "i'm dyslexic so i sometimes get things reversed."  ok, then why are you teaching 12 students something where order is totally relevant.  long story short, i mentally checked out from class because i felt like he was a bullshitter. 

ugh...class tomorrow and diagnostic test #2 on my lovely saturday morning!

i smell like men's cologne.  why?  i think it's leftover burberry but why did it turn to man-like smell?!  hmm...note to self: don't spray burberry on outerwear because it eventually begins to stink!

lsat diagnostic

i received my diagnostic score for my first lsat test in a long time!  i was happy with the results because it's a good place to start and a place that leaves a room for a lot of improvement, and i thought i'd do a lot worse.  listed is the order of my best subjects to worst.  ironically, i guessed at 90% of the games and did the best.  if only i could be so lucky on the real thing.

games

arguments

reading comp

life has been hectic and passing by way too fast.  i enjoy december best when it moves in a sloth-like manner but it appears this sloth is on speed.

lsat class sucks!

last night was the first night of lsat class.  bottom line is it sucks!  i don't know why i thought the second time would be better.  the teacher is odd and talks slow.  i'm glad there are only 2 classes this month and one diagnostic test this saturday.  we worked on games last night and i had high school math flashbacks where my brain shuts down and doing group work makes it that much worse.  why would i want to solve a game with a partner?!  i'm not going to have a partner on the real test.  and besides, their methods mess up my methods.  w.e.  it didn't help that we were given 50 pounds of books!

time to start thinking about schools (by geo location)...

bu, bc, uconn, nyu, northeastern, suffolk

ugeorgia, georgia state

scu, ucsf, usc, pepperdine, loyola (ca), usf, usd, ggu,

uhawaii

to do:

- reg for 2/05 lsat on 12/14

- begin requesting applics. and exploring website, look for index

- personal statement, transcripts, and recs.