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• 10Oct 08

  Wikipedia and Conversations with Shenlongbo

  So this has been an interesting week. My roommate (as I'm sure you've all heard until you're ready to vomit) is in medical school, and last night was her white coat ceremony. It's basically an intro to the medical profession where they're ceremonially presented with the white coats they'll be wearing on their clinicals and other such doctory events. It's a BIG DEAL and so I dressed myself up and went to it. It must be very meaningful to the participants, but to everyone else it was very much like a college graduation: long, pompous, and boring.

  On my way home after the gala (which lasted until ten or so, then there was a reception and drinks) I was so darn tired that I called up Mr. Shenlongbo since he lives a few timezones west of here and I was pretty sure he was awake. I needed a good conversation to keep myself from falling asleep. Fortunately, he wasn't busy and as we often do we were soon having a lovely chat about grammar.

  I'm a grammar nerd.

  Anyway, let me run this by you and see if you find it as silly as Shen and I did. Apparently there's a new part of speech in use by the US military... or rather, a new name for an old part of speech. Remember those things called adverbs? You know, the ones that often end in -ly and give a more precise flavor to verbs? Yeah, those. Apparently the term "adverb" is too difficult to understand, since they've been redubbed "modified verbs". Modified verbs!? wtf? I could see modifiers of verbs, since that is after all what adverbs do... I could see modified adjectives even, since if you take off the -ly suffix most adverbs become adjectives. I'm not sure how you could spin "quickly", "neatly", or even "expeditiously" into verbs of any kind--modified or otherwise. Bah. Silly military.

  In other news, it's been pointed out that one of my trigames.net reviews is quoted on Wikipedia! I feel like a fancy pants reviewer... like someone who gets paid, but without the paid part. See here, here, and here. You know you wanna.

  • Posted Oct 10, 2008 5:05 pm PT
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• 6Oct 08

  Back from Eastern Mass

  ...I've been informed that Boston is something of a misnomer as I was in fact going to a location in the Greater Boston Area but not Boston itself. So indeed, I have returned from Eastern Massachusetts.

  The LSAT is over and done with and it's back to the same old same old of daily life. Hopefully that means I'll be showing my face around here a lot more. I've missed it in my rush to study. I've also been working two jobs while studying, so that takes up a fair amount of time even now that the test is over with.

  For those of you who'll be curious, I don't get scores back on the test for a few weeks... 4-6 to be imprecise. I feel pretty good about how I did. There weren't any questions I was completely at a loss on and I didn't leave any sections unfinished, so I'm hoping I did pretty well. We'll find out I guess.

  I did have a pretty hard time finding my car after the test. Boy does that make one feel like a dunce!

  Well peoples, how's the week been for all of you?

  • Posted Oct 6, 2008 3:05 pm PT
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• 29Sep 08

  Last Week Before LSATS

  If you don't see much of me in the next week or so, just know I'm bent over a book somewhere with my brains cramping in my head.

  Taking the LSAT on Saturday and then going to Boston to blow off steam on Sunday. Should be back to normal normal on Monday or so...

  Wish me luck!!

  • Posted Sep 29, 2008 7:05 pm PT
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