I am CLEARLY a Responsible, Adept Adult.

the fact that i'm writing this blog post in my office at work is a testament to my claim in the title of this post. i haven't updated my blog in a while, so being the responsible, adept adult that i am, i will try to cram as many things as possible into this post to make up for the dearth of posts this past month.

have you ever had a conversation with a friend/family member/significant other/whomever that ended badly because you were being sarcastic/snarky, but it didn't translate well into chatting/texting/written exchange on the interwebz? i've always wondered about this because i tend to lean towards dry, sarcastic humor, but have had problems communicating this through writing. apparently, there's a solution for this. i present to you:

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this may be old news to you, but i just recently found out that the symbol above denotes sarcasm. i don't know who came up with this, or how they decided that this signals to the reader that what they just read was sarcasm, but it's pretty great. for example: i have my 2nd diagnostic test tonight from 6-10; i'm so excited! [!] (maybe that wasn't such a great example after all. i'm a little distracted at the moment though, so forgive me).

moving on to other things, i got a new phone yesterday. i usually pride myself in being pretty tech savvy (my current job entails computer coding and website maintenance, for goodness sake), because my dad instilled in me a love for all technological gadgets, gizmos and doo-dads at an early age. however, with my new phone, i feel like an 80-year-old handling a netbook for the first time (or at least, it's how i imagine she would feel). i'm utterly confused by its numerous, unnecessary widgets that i cannot get rid of, and the way it organizes my contacts makes my head ache. luckily i've figured out how to call, text, and take pictures on it though, which is good because that's really all i need from my phone. i thought having a nice, brand new, touch screen phone would be cool (it just came out about 2 weeks ago), but so far i'm not seeing very many benefits and i almost prefer my old phone (i say "almost" because the keyboard wasn't working on my old phone, which was terrible since i text more than i talk).

on the topic of phones, when my mom sent me my new phone, she also included bags of various nuts and dried fruits. i've been eating them at work, which is why i have had to suppress my urge to say "om nom nom nom" every time i eat a walnut, because walnuts remind me of brains and i think they can only be eaten appropriately if accompanied by zombie noises. however, doing so would probably scare off chelsea, my officemate, so i have had to refrain. :(

yesterday, i bought flintstones sour gummy vitamins. i'm super excited for them (except i forgot to eat them this morning), and i've decided to be nice and share them with zammez. this just proves that i am a responsible adult (taking vitamins without being told to, and sharing? yup, definite adult-like behavior); never mind that they're sour gummy vitamins. they taste very yummy, and i had a hard time limiting myself to just 2 yesterday. i wonder what would happen if i ate the whole bottle...would i die from vitamin overdose?

this past weekend i had a dinner date with some of the lovely ladies of team asia. for some reason, i feel that the fact that i had a dinner date further proves my point that i am an adult.

sorry this post is such a hodge-podge, both subject-matter-wise and chronologically. but hey, if you could read this and stayed with me till the end, it means your brain is very agile and in tip-top shape. think of it this way: i'm doing you a favor by making you exercise your -walnut- (brain).

And the Results...

i feel so much better now that i'm done with the diagnostic. the thought of taking that stupid test was wreaking havoc on my nervous/digestive system and interrupting my sleep schedule, but now it's over!

they say LSAT stands for Law School Admission Test, but it's more like the Long Sadistic Aggravating/Agonizing/any-other-negative-"A"-word-you-can-think-of Test if you ask me.

if you're wondering how i did, here's a screenshot of the analysis/score of the practice test i took online:

i'm only doing this because i know only like, 2 people actually read this, and i feel like my blog is a safe space. haha. anyway, i know it's really fuzzy, but this screenshot validates my belief that i'm just plain illogical. i mean, 9 correct out of 24? apparently kaplan calls this my "opportunity for improvement" rather than my weakness. whatever you say, kaplan.

what baffles me though, is the fact that i actually did better on the practice test (despite the fact that i was doing it at work while chatting with my bf on gchat) than i did on the diagnostic test, which was as close to the real testing situation as possible. wtf, right? anyhow, kaplan has a higher score guarantee, and i've heard that on average people get up to 10 points higher after taking a course at kaplan, so if i don't get at least a 166-169 i'm asking for my money back. haha.

Shameless Plug and Random Stuff

i can't believe my 23rd birthday is coming up this friday...every year i get really excited during the days leading up to my birthday, but this year i feel NOTHING. does it mean that i've lost my inner-kid? maybe it's just because 23 isn't really a big deal. if anything, i'm waiting for my 25th birthday (as is my mother, but for a completely different reason; she wants me married by then -_-;;) just so i can say that i've been alive for a quarter of a century. due to my somewhat pessimistic, misanthropic, doom-and-gloom outlook on life and the world in general, i think that's a pretty commendable feat, and something worth celebrating. 23 years? meh, not so much.



anyway, the reason for this shamelss plug isn't to advertise that it's my birthday (well, actually, never mind, it kind of is), but to advertise the fact that rather than birthday gifts (although those are nice too), i'm asking friends and family to donate to a cause i support. i know not very many people actually read my blog, but i'm trying to advertise my birthday wish any way i can. i also know that many of my friends may not be too well off in the financial department, so although the facebook page may ask for $10, i'd be happy with whatever people can afford (i only donated $10 myself, so it'd be a bit silly of me to expect people to donate more).



on a related, but kind of random note, apparently the causes application on facebook thinks i'm nearing the century-mark:


maybe this is the reason i'm not excited about my birthday anymore (because i'm a jaded, tired, near-centenarian)?


now on a completely unrelated note, i start my LSAT classes tomorrow. it's just the diagnostic test tomorrow and not an actual class session, but i'm still excited. and by "excited" i mean "i have a herd of elephant ballerinas in my stomach and i feel like a little kid who gets so excited (s)he pukes." wish me luck!