If you think you know colors, then check this out. Amazing how nearby colors (ahem) color your perception.

I've been playing around with the blog, upgrading the MT software to version 3.2. Now with unlimited blogs! Lots of fun plugins! More ways to procrastinate!

Theoretically everything should work right now, please let me know if it doesn't. I've got an idea for a new layout but I'm not sure when I'll be able to work on it.

This weekend is the St. Louis Fall Festival of Art, and my mother will have a booth. Please head out to Queeny Park (550 Weidman Rd, a few miles west from the intersection of 270 and Manchester, friday night, saturday and sunday) and support her and the other artists this weekend. It's a juried show so all the artwork there is very well done.

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Happy Birthday to me. Yes indeedy, I am 25 today. Two and a half decades. Egad. I feel so old compared to most of my friends. I know that there are people out there my age, but where did they all go? Eh. Happy thoughts. Friends coming into town, parents bringing fondue for lunch (who needs the Melting Pot when you've got parents with a fondue pot?), probable drunkeness tonight, and a new futon. Whee!

I'm a little surprised that I didn't get more cards in the mail (the only one is from my grandparents who sent it last month ) but maybe more will come today. Or maybe not. I don't guess it's all that big of a deal. I'm old enough that presents/cards shouldn't matter, right? (But come on. It's still a lot of fun to get mail...) I'm hoping a package of perfumes that I ordered will come today, that would make a nice birthday present. It's not a digital camera, but hey, it smells good and that makes me happy.

I hope you all have a wonderful day. I'll tell you about the MCAT and Amanda's wedding and etc etc, later.

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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.

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From oneword., when I should be studying. Just thought I'd share a little writing blurb with you.

The prompt was "midnight."

I thought I had seen it all but the night was more beautiful than ever. and I knew that I had someone waiting for me on the other side of dawn, and that made it all the sweeter. who knew that the darkness of the night would make the morning worth waking up for?

It's pretty silly, but that's what you get from a brain saturated with MCAT-ness. Please pray for me. It will be good or it will be bad, and there's nothing I can do about once it's over. I don't think I'm prepared enough (haven't even written practice essays) but my mother is convinced that I test well and everyone thinks I'm smart. Quite a trick, eh, to have all these people thinking I know what I'm doing all these years?

On the upside, I got invited to my first bachelorette party. Strip club and dancing On the downside, it's on Saturday, so that will be a loooong day.

Another upside: time off tomorrow! Downside: studying! Sigh. Hopefully the studying will be on the upside.

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From winterson.com: three stories. A transcript of Steve Jobs' speech to the 2005 Stanford graduates.

"...stewart and his team put out several issues of the whole earth catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. it was the mid-1970s, and i was your age. on the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. beneath it were the words: "stay hungry. stay foolish." it was their farewell message as they signed off. stay hungry. stay foolish. and i have always wished that for myself. and now, as you graduate to begin anew, i wish that for you."

BTW, this site also has the wonderful mistranslation of Star Wars: Episode III as mentioned in my blogspot. Read it. You will laugh.

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