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I love Project Runway. There, I said it. Heidi Klum is gorgeous and nice (two characteristics that rarely go together) and Tim Gunn is even, if possible, nicer. Plus, he’s got great fashion sense. (Watch enough episodes and it’s always the idiots who don’t listen to his thoughtful “hmmm…I don’t know about the hot pink ruffles” who get auf wiedersehen’ed that night).
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So, my first idea for this week’s entry was to write a response to Nick’s blog entitled, “A Ride on the Ultimate LSAT DiscoStick, Seducing the Man with a 180; A True Story”. This was met with general approval by editorial. Unfortunately, the entry would have been entirely fabricated, and I don’t know Nick well enough to be certain I could avoid sexual harassment allegations. So I decided to put it on the backburner.

Although, if there are any gentlemen out there who happen to have a 180 and are in the New York Metro area, let me know. I’m always looking for my next…um… blog topic.

Having discarded my first idea, I decided to waste some time and piss around on Microsoft Excel. My initial intention was to create some sort of budgeting spreadsheet, so I can pretend like I’m making an effort to prevent spending all my loan money before spring break. Unfortunately, I have a weak stomach. I quickly started feeling queasy, and decided to stick with my tried and true method of ignoring the problem.
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So I write you this week from about 3,200 miles above the ground, as I sit on a trans-American flight and pound into my keyboard as hard as possible to annoy the girl in front of me who has decided, despite the fact that it is not even seven o’clock, to recline her seat into full sleep mode and co-opt every last ounce of legroom she can. Luckily, I’m vindictive, and figure in the next four hours I can easily scratch out enough blogs that I can finally stop worrying if MSS is going to fire me in the exceedingly near future, and Queen Head Lice Dreadlocks in front of me can feel the wrath from now until JFK. That’s right honey. Enjoy it.

Of course, as much as I’m sure the Pre-Law community would enjoy hearing about my airborne woes for the next thousand words, today I do not bring extended tidings of such issues. (Although, I will say, if I ever do go to work at a firm, you can rest assured that the ability to afford first class seats was one of my primary motivations.) Instead, I hope to share with you some information that may make your future travel plans a little more fruitful, as you jet around the country to check out various admitted student days and other law school events to decide on your home for the next quarter decade or so. Keep these three things in mind, and your experiences should be both enjoyable and help make the final decision a little easier.
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The signs are all around us. You’ve seen them: listless bodies walking blankly around town at dusk, a preponderance of frighteningly pale and sickly young people lurking about your neighborhood bars and restaurants, and an ever increasing number of confused individuals emerging from the shadows, devoid of people skills and all-around cleanliness. No, this is not a casting call for the next George Romero zombie flick, nor is it at all related to the ubiquitous and thoroughly tired vampire fad. My friends, what we’re dealing with is a massive outbreak of PLWD: Post LSAT Withdrawal Disorder.
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It’s back to school time once again, which means two things: 1) I’m pretty pissed that I’ve already used my one free allusion to the Billy Madison song and 2) I actually have things to write about again. As always, my world is filled with equal parts good and bad.

Even better, this time around I not only have subjects to write about, but some perspective on how they all fit together. I have to admit, I spent the first few weeks of last semester blindly wandering about, semi-paralyzed with fear that someone was going to find out I was an imposter with nothing more than an odd talent for color-coding dinosaurs, who really had no business being at a top law school. Luckily, I’ve since come to realize that 95% of the people at my school have no real business being there and the other 5% are too busy planning their route to a Supreme Court clerkship to give a damn about someone like me.
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Occasionally, I am astounded by how quickly things change. Case in point, on December 25th my sister tried to tell me that the period of 2000-2009 was called the “aughts”, and I promptly informed her that she was an idiot. I felt confident that I was right, not only because “aught” was barely a world (unless you count sloppy slang for “should”) but also because I’m hard pressed to ever accept that I am wrong. Plus, my sister is younger than me, thus being correct is my birthright.

But then, the next day, I saw a publication referring to said period as the “aughts”. I chalked it up to a coincidence, and remained convinced I was right. Then, somewhere around the 27th, it happened again. Doubt started to creep into my mind. Incredibly, it happened again the 28th, then again the 29th, and again the 30th.
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In the last four months, I have been to three volcanoes, five rainforests, seven beaches and a white-water river. I have almost been mugged, watched a turtle lay its eggs on the beach in the middle of the night (sort of like a majestic bowel movement) and visited one of the world’s largest collections of jade. I’ve cooked vegetables whose names I can’t pronounce and found a dead spider outside my apartment the other day that was at least three inches in diameter. About the only thing I haven’t done is to attend law school. And I couldn’t be happier.
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It’s the first day of 2010, which means it’s time to make resolutions! Here’s our top ten for the LSAT:

10. Deeply regret that dinosaurs, and various theories of their extinction, ever existed.

9. Contemplate purchase of Kim Kardashian’s Guide to LSAT 180.

8. Get new fingerprints for LSAT testing site so criminal record from shoplifting Hello Kitty backpack from Wal-Mart doesn’t show up.

7. Write essay at end of test about how Adam Lambert’s mascara is inspiration to all.
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It has been a very eventful year.

The United States swore in our first black President. The King of Pop kicked the can. We finally achieved health care reform… sorta. We started to bounce back from the recession… kinda. A Tiger became a cheetah. And the Yankees won another World Series.

Well, all of that is well and good, but it has been an equally eventful year for those of us in the LSAT world. And I would like to take this opportunity to take a stroll down memory lane. Some highlights…
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Finals are done. It feels so good to type that, I’m going to go ahead and do it again. Finals are done. Finished.

Observing the GChat status and Facebook updates of my law school friends lead to me to believe that right now I should be feeling “free”. Or better yet, “Freeeeeeeeeeee”. Or possibly even “FREEEEEEEE AHHHHHHH!!!!! FREEEEEEEDOMMMMM”. But it’s not just my hatred of emoticons that keeps me from professing this feeling to the world, I’m also not so sure it would be accurate. Unless, of course, “free” is actually a synonym for “Suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder”. That would be spot on.
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