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!
