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Aug. 30th, 2005 09:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liptonrm_backupThat rassafrazzling LSAT prep course I'm taking started last night.
It was a three hour diagnostic test chock full of logic questions that, while they weren't particularly difficult, did kind of wear my brain out. By the 50th one all the words kind of blended together and my brain ceased functioning at peak proficiency. I think I momentarily lost 20 IQ points.
We'll see how it goes. Will be taking the class three days a week, each class being three hours long, for the next month. Will also be sitting in the most uncomfortable chairs in the world. I think caffeine is going to be my bestest friend. And possibly my own personal masseuse.
Mmmmmm, masseuse ...
And when did I get so old? I looked around that little classroom, surrounded by 3rd and 4th year college students and it was so surreal. I mean, there was even a girl next to me complaining about how she had had a class at 8:30 that morning and nothing else the entire day and she was soooo exhausted. Honey, I worked a 8 hour day and then had to drive down here, survive the hordes of students wandering the streets and find a place to park. Don't tell me about exhausted.
That mostly amuses me this morning. Oh yes, I'm so bloody ancient. *grins* *rolls eyes*
Realized as I was laying in bed last night that the class will interfere with the first two episodes of Lost season two. NOOOOOOOO! I have to say that Lost ranks higher on the priority list (what, my priorities are perfectly reasonable! Stop laughing!) and so I will be missing those two classes. Never fear, they can be made up. If anyone there asks why I was absent I will inform them that I had a "prior business engagement" that I couldn't reschedule. The instructor's a fanboy, he'll understand.
I need to buy a hawaiian shirt to wear when I see Serenity. I have a browncoat but I need the shirt. You know, we should have some sort of Livejournal masquerade. I've seen it done around the 'net. We could all 'show up' in costume and bring 'guests' and have a grand ol' time. Or maybe I need a nap.
ETA: OMG! Forget about the masquerade. Wait, not forget, but I had this other idea last night. We need to have a Crackpot Theory Day. It'll be a day where we each consider the most outlandish theories held by real people. The crazier the better. If it's fun on The West Wing just think about what the mass insanity of LJ could be like.
Word Origin of the Day: Bureau - In one form of Latin, the word bura referred to a specific kind of rough, shaggy garment. This became burel in Old French, with the meaning now referring to "cloth woven from wool." From this arose the modern Frech word bureau, originally meaning "a cloth used to cover desks." Various applications appeared after this in English, all linked to a form of office furniture, including "bureaus" as a furniture format and "bureaus" as government or corporate departments. "Bureaucracy" also sprang from this association.
It was a three hour diagnostic test chock full of logic questions that, while they weren't particularly difficult, did kind of wear my brain out. By the 50th one all the words kind of blended together and my brain ceased functioning at peak proficiency. I think I momentarily lost 20 IQ points.
We'll see how it goes. Will be taking the class three days a week, each class being three hours long, for the next month. Will also be sitting in the most uncomfortable chairs in the world. I think caffeine is going to be my bestest friend. And possibly my own personal masseuse.
Mmmmmm, masseuse ...
And when did I get so old? I looked around that little classroom, surrounded by 3rd and 4th year college students and it was so surreal. I mean, there was even a girl next to me complaining about how she had had a class at 8:30 that morning and nothing else the entire day and she was soooo exhausted. Honey, I worked a 8 hour day and then had to drive down here, survive the hordes of students wandering the streets and find a place to park. Don't tell me about exhausted.
That mostly amuses me this morning. Oh yes, I'm so bloody ancient. *grins* *rolls eyes*
Realized as I was laying in bed last night that the class will interfere with the first two episodes of Lost season two. NOOOOOOOO! I have to say that Lost ranks higher on the priority list (what, my priorities are perfectly reasonable! Stop laughing!) and so I will be missing those two classes. Never fear, they can be made up. If anyone there asks why I was absent I will inform them that I had a "prior business engagement" that I couldn't reschedule. The instructor's a fanboy, he'll understand.
I need to buy a hawaiian shirt to wear when I see Serenity. I have a browncoat but I need the shirt. You know, we should have some sort of Livejournal masquerade. I've seen it done around the 'net. We could all 'show up' in costume and bring 'guests' and have a grand ol' time. Or maybe I need a nap.
ETA: OMG! Forget about the masquerade. Wait, not forget, but I had this other idea last night. We need to have a Crackpot Theory Day. It'll be a day where we each consider the most outlandish theories held by real people. The crazier the better. If it's fun on The West Wing just think about what the mass insanity of LJ could be like.
Word Origin of the Day: Bureau - In one form of Latin, the word bura referred to a specific kind of rough, shaggy garment. This became burel in Old French, with the meaning now referring to "cloth woven from wool." From this arose the modern Frech word bureau, originally meaning "a cloth used to cover desks." Various applications appeared after this in English, all linked to a form of office furniture, including "bureaus" as a furniture format and "bureaus" as government or corporate departments. "Bureaucracy" also sprang from this association.
