Sarah Lawrence, LSATs and 90s Teen Movies

I finally made it to Bronxville after my harrowing nightmare with Metro-North. I forgot how quaint and exhausting those green rolling hills, and though I still found the Tudor-style architecture charming, I was decidedly annoyed at the lack of a grid and the liberal ramblings of its students. I was asking one student for directions, and kept on getting distracted by her armpit hair in desperate need of tidying, and had a distinct flash of what my life could have been if I attended that school and it was no longer longing or wonder. The Novel Writing workshop seemed good but too supportive and less demanding than what I would need, and I was amazed that some have been working on the same novel for fifteen years. The instructor was intrigued by my Peregrine Hawk young-adult novel, and it seems like a great program but in the end, I decide that the weekly commute will be the end of me. I got my full refund and visited the Bargain Box near the train station and picked up a fantastic heavy woven fabric for art, and several fantastic books and McSweeney's 24 issue.

Metro-North, once again, screwed me over. It was to skip my Tremont stop, so I had to get off at Fordham and walk towards the subway. I hate Metro-North. I was too distracted too study and still irritated that my asshole of a roommate Ryan decided to color our apartment geriatric, and I figured I can't study anymore without going insane. I stopped by Chinatown on Friday night to pick up some mussels, but the seafood section closed so I made vegetarian noodles with tofu and raw mango coconut sauce for Linette.

I'm pretty sure I had another LSAT-related nightmare. I woke up early yesterday and grabbed a cab to the testing site, and was completely taken aback by the huddled masses clutching their possessions in small Ziplock bags per LSAT regulation. Between people behind me chattering away their nervousness at my back and the freaked out people still cramming with their test book as they studied in front of me, it was not a good time to be had by all. I calmed down by taking a nap and playing the jukebox in my head, and I think I did pretty well for the first four sections (Reading Comprehension, followed by three Logical Reasoning arguments in a row.) On the third Logical Reasoning argument section, some asshole decided to mess with the blinders and the noise totally threw me off my game and it took too many minutes for me to recover and get back on track. He was lucky he wasn't sitting next to me as I was ready to stab him with one of my many sharpened No 2 pencils. I was so thrown off that I was blinded by my weak spot, Logic Games. I kept on skipping games around for no reason which is VERY bad strategy. So I think I should score average in this test since my good performance on the Reading Comprehension/Logical Arguments ought to be offset by the disaster that was Logic Games. I think I redeemed myself at the Writing argument prompt, but unfortunately that section is unscored.

I made my way back to Astoria, and Linette and I had a late lunch at the Himalayan Teahouse. I was surprised that the the organic green tea noodles were not green. We drank some badly needed beer (Baltic beer good, Russian beer bad) while watching "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" and I took some photographs of Linette for her LinkedIn account. I made homemade tomato pasta, roasted some beets, made a chicken and butter corn stir, and baked some garlic king fish and finished off a whole bottle of wine in one go. I watched the last couple of episodes of that ABC family show, "10 Things I Have About You" which is somewhat enjoyable for the Kat and Patrick character, watched the first couple of minutes of the original film (oh how I was so much like Kat back then, right down to wanting to go to SLC but my parents prevailed in nixing that idea) but got bored as I have seen this film way too often recently. I proceeded to watch "Cruel Intentions" which, to this day, I still have mixed feelings about. I wish I had a copy of "She's All That" which I also have mixed feelings about, but sadly I did not have a copy of that. I figured last night was a good stay-in night as I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown all week.

I think I will skip the mimosa-fueled brunch in the LES today and work on essays and applications. I am going to put in serious effort this October in either finding a job/apartment in NYC or finding an artist residency in Berlin. I like the idea of being a lawyer, but I don't love it. I need my freedom.