On the eve of GRE...

I have made a terrible mistake in my studies. I barely touched on the Math, thinking I could do decent and not worry too much. But apparently, it does matter. So yeah, scrambling on the 11th hour to brush up on Math concepts I didn't even study in high school (statistics, what's that?!).

Don't do this, fellow potential MFA students! Learn from this!

Well, if anything, I'll do well on the Verbal section. But don't fret on my behalf. I can afford to take the GRE one more time before the deadline to the MFA program I want to apply for. This, of course, assuming I bomb it so hard (the first time) it's beyond hilarity.

So here we go. The final full day. No Verbal stuff. Just Math.

Nothing. But. Math.

Tiny update on the novel

Well, been chugging along Part 3 of Invisible and making some progress. And thus, I decided to do the Internet bar thingy again.

*Drum roll*

86019 / 120000 words. 72% done!

Hell yeah! Now, just need to finish this before the end of the year... among other things.

Where I Was on 9/11

Warning: the following post contains descriptions of disturbing imagery related to 9/11.

Things that made my day

Apparently, a new Talking Heads DVD compilation is coming out this year. With live performances! Interviews! Other thingys! October 18th is the date, save it! Oh and... it's limited, apparently. With a deluxe version. And I wouldn't be a serious fan if I wasn't getting the deluxe version.

This eases the disappointment of falling for the old "hey, Fleetwood Mac's Mirage is gonna get remastered this year!" again.

Oh hi, Lindsey Buckingham. I see your new album coming out tomorrow. And your DVD coming out in November. (And no, I wasn't named after him.)

Wait. That's it? Man, okay. Here y'all go: my contribution.

Alright, I'm back!

Hey y'all, long time, no see. Just posted stuff about Retromania and vanished off into the woods. After getting lost and confused (mostly the latter), I have found my way back to my beloved blog. I have plans to finish up the "24 Reviews..." with a rant on a book for record-collecting gals, Jerry Harrison's second album, Lindsey Buckingham's new album, and wrapping it all up with Murakami's latest tome. Looks like the goal is a surefire finish!

I had also made a grievous error. The blog will have its fifth birthday in 2012, not this year. Whoops! I accidentally math.

Some fantastic news: my all-time favorite novel is getting a reprint! But why, when Google auto-completes searches, is there "a house like a lotus movie"? World, is there something you're not telling me? Then again, you can do this for The Secret History by Donna Tartt and get "the secret history movie". So who knows? Maybe there are curious folks such as myself. But man... I only hope that I will be the intrepid screenwriter of the adaptation. It's one of my biggest dreams.

In lieu of the big news about A House Like A Lotus (yes, its reprinting warrants a party, okay?), I will reread all of the Time Quartet and the O'Keefe Family series.

There you have it. Here's to actually doing what I'm gonna do!