What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, than in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself. — Anna Jameson

Sooo…the MCAT is tomorrow. Scary proposition, that. From the practice tests I’ve taken it’s pretty clear that I won’t do all that well. Alas. My mom points out that no matter how I do my parents will still love me and I can always take it again, but I’d sure like to get it over with. It seems a silly thing to have all med school dreams pinned on a test, but I don’t know how else they would evaluate you. What I want to know is, am I really going to need to know how fast a ball is falling when dropped from 20 meters at ten seconds into the fall for med school?
Appropriate, perhaps, that this was my word of the day for Wednesday (don’t know what happened to Thursday’s. apparently Thursday was wordless.):
Word of the Day for Wednesday August 17, 2005
dilatory \DIL-uh-tor-ee\, adjective:
1. Tending to put off what ought to be done at once; given to
procrastination.
2. Marked by procrastination or delay; intended to cause
delay; — said of actions or measures.
I am inclined to be dilatory, and if I had not enjoyed
extraordinary luck in life and love I might have been
living with my mother at that very moment, doing nothing.
–Carroll O’Connor, [1]I Think I’m Outta Here
And what is a slumlord? He is not a man who own expensive
property in fashionable neighborhoods, but one who owns
only rundown property in the slums, where the rents are
lowest and the where the payment is most dilatory, erratic
and undependable.
–Henry Hazlitt, [2]Economics in One Lesson
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Dilatory is from Latin dilatorius, from dilator, “a dilatory
person, a loiterer,” from dilatus, past participle of
differre, “to delay, to put off,” from dis-, “apart, in
different directions” + ferre, “to carry.”
I have been dilatory about studying for said test. Wish me luck. I will need it.
(On a totally non-related note, Roswell Season Three is out on DVD. Awww, the last season of my favorite tv show. I may just have to get it today, on prinicple. I miss that show.