ARgg! I'm getting kinda frustrated by this LSAT thing. The analytical section is kicking my ass - I'm not getting any better - in fact, I'm getting worse. Test is coming up in 9 days. Getting a liiiitle bit worried.

In other news, I just talked again with travelocity.com. The hiring freeze is definately on, so ho-hum - no jobbie job for me.

Oh - one last thing - I misreported the Rangers game. Aparently they suck more than I had first thought. Texas actually lost 13-2. Aparently they gave up 5 more runs after my sister and I left in the 8th inning. So much for spending $250 mil on A-rod...

Just got back from a Rangers game, where they played the part of the Seattle's whipping boy losing 9-3... again. But then again the hot dogs were yummy, which is the real reason I go to baseball games.
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So, the US has changed the name from "Infinite Justice" to "Enduring Freedom". Not only is the new name equally as silly, but it is also very ambiguous. Does 'Enduring' here act as a Adjective or a Verb?

[venting removed ... I don't like people who vent online...]
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Sorry for being so cynical tonight - I'm usually a good humored person, but I just got rubbed the wrong way too many times today.
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On a positive note, I got in contact with the Public Policy Institute of California today. I got some good reviews from an old Amherst prof who's doing his sabbatical there. In any case, they're interviewing me over the phone tomorrow. Hopefully that goes well....

I drove by and noticed all the flags around the Dallas area back up at full mast. It was a little odd to see - it got me all worked up again =(

This is a sad week/month/year. I just heard that Issac Stern just died. Stern was one of the last great pre-Galamian violinists - In many ways, the last of a generation. I'm listening to an old interview and some clips of his recording on NPR. This month, the world has truly lost a lot. =(

Hope people had a good sunday - I just got back from rock climbing. My friend Chris Lau was in town for the weekend (he just got a new job - email him a congrats ), and he's a big rockclimber. It's a good workout. I think I'm going to try to do it on a regular basis.
Tonight, I went down to Deep Ellum (bar/restauraunt district in downtown dallas) with my sister and my friend Austin. We had overpriced yet pedestrian sushi. Afterwards, we hung out at a cafe. In the courtyard outside behind the cafe, there was a punk/metal band playing and girls with cowboy hats moshing... . .. .... . I'm ready to go back to (either) coast.

On the positive side, I had a $5 milkshake at the cafe. It was yum yum - it was a chocolate and bananna milkshake with finely crushed expresso beans in it. Me'thinks I might not sleep for a while.

On another note, I watched a 3 day overdue DVD of Taxi Driver, another classic I had been meaning to see. Very good - very intersting... quite violent. It's interesting that the main theme in that movie is loneliness. It's kinda reflecting what I'm feeling these days (hence the need to move back to (either) coast). LSAT is in 2 weeks though - after I bust my ass and kick it's ass, I'll either move to SF, Boston, or at least go visit down in Austin more often.