c'est fini, le MCAT!!!

The title says it ALL, amigos. The MCAT is done with, and my score was better than I could have ever expected, so I have that small happiness to keep me warm as the days grow inexorably colder.

I am totally saddened though, by the blog's sudden drop in readership. It went from, like, 5 people, to 1 ( Hem!) Of course, this was probably materially affected by the fact that I only post around once a month. *sheepish grin* In any case, I'm not sure that I'm doing this blog for the feedback - though comments are always appreciated - it's more a venting space for me. Of course, by that logic, if you look at the long gaps between posts - i must be a horribly repressed person (and I am, actually!) I've been told by people that my blog should have more of the "what-i-did-today" stuff - but, you know, I can't do that. The details of my life are petty and mundane - and I've always felt that day-to-day routines are almost interchangeable, while it is one's thoughts, rants, weird mental processes that make one unique. So that's what I try (emphasis on try) to bring out in my blog. Me, as I tend to sound in my own head, weird dialogue and all. I'm not for disclosing everything that goes on in my head, though - joys, addictions, dislikes, fears, insecurities - (though there are plenty of those to go around) - I don't tell anyone about those - but I will give you too much of my insane opinions.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE BOOK SALE! (How's that for an abrupt change of topic? :D)

Had to wait 10 minutes to get in, but was cheered by the fact that, earlier, the wait time was around 30 minutes (eep!). I was totally spoilt for choice - I mean, two HALLS full of books!!! c'mon!!! total kid-in-a-candy-store syndrome. anyway, here's a list of books i bought - for only $20, too! :D

• To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee - book you HAVE to own. If you haven't read it, go buy/ obtain a copy NOW.
• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - book that should make you look intellectual just sitting on your bookshelf (teehee!)
• Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - Repressed English People. Fuuun. :D
• The Hippopotamus - Stephen Fry - I (heart) Stephen Fry. The man was Jeeves, for crying out loud!!! :D I've read ALL of his books, and the man is a joy to read. Just funny, and... did i mention funny? I'd recommend "Moab is my washpot" to start with, it's his autobiography.
• The Fourth Man - a book about the Philby, Burgess, Blunt and Maclean scandal - they were Soviet spies - and i think they were the inspiration for John Le Carre's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which was made into an awesome BBC miniseries in the '80's with Alec Guiness as George Smiley.
• The Seven Pillars of Wisdom - TE Lawrence - yup. THE T.E. Lawrence - as in Lawrence of Arabia. All I know of the guy is what I learnt from the movie (Peter O'Toole was gorgeous when he was younger!) and from a National Geographic profile. Hopefully it should be an interesting read.
• The Titus Novels - Mervyn Peake - you may know these novels better as the Gormenghast novels - they're supposed to be landmarks of fantasy literature, and I watched a A&E adaptation of the first two that was pretty entertaining (and yet, weirdly disquieting) - so for $1 (i kid you not!) it seemed a steal.
• Daily Life in Ancient Rome - Florence Dupont - course-related reading, but entertaining all the same. Apparently Pompey (he whose head was presented to Caesar by Ptolemy) was quite the romantic. Whodathunkit?

I plan to go back on Tuesday - last year, they slashed the prices by half on the last day *evil grin* I plan to pick up some poetry - maybe a collected Edna St Vincent Millay, if I can find one.

After I left the booksale, I ran into Purva and Sabina, and prattled on without remembering it was P's birthday. *sad face* Of course, now I'm going to have bad birthday karma. Weird to think in less than a month I will be twenty - that feels so OLD! I mean, TWENTY!!! GAH!

"We interrupt your regular programming to bring you a spazzfit by the author. (Insert unintelligible noices here) We now return you to the marginally more coherent ramblings of the author when not gibbering insanely."

blahhhh... :D

what else, what else? I'm learning to play Russian Poker! As with all card games though, my luck is abysmal - though it may have less to do with luck and more to do with me being stuuupid. If my life was a seventies hindi movie, this would be the part where my police officer father berated me for wasting my life playing cards - lucky for me, my Dad's an accountant, eh? :D

think that's it for now. I leave you now with one of my favourite scenes from one of my favourite episodes of one of my favourite anime - it's a clip from Session 5 - "Ballad of Fallen Angels" and the anime is (for those of you philistines who don't yet know :P) Cowboy Bebop. Enjoy!