The West Wing, Josh Lyman, String Theory

Another reason i love "The West Wing": Episode 2 of season 2, in which Josh Lyman, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, takes every opportunity to talk about the new advances in String Theory. This is after being Shot, two episodes prior...

Politics and Theoretical Physics. Man, i love this show...

This Just In:

Preparing for the GRE makes me sad in my pants. (Tool - [Eon Blue Apocalypse]). It makes me Want to procrastinate, because of all the work involved. It feels like too much. There's a lot of shit, in the GRE, and it doesn't feel like it can be preparred for, in one day. (A Perfect Circle - [3 Libras (Massive Attack Remix)]). And, no, i don't just have today, and yes i've had more days before this.

But i feel the same way, today, about the GRE, as i did about the entire Gradschool thing: If i don't do it all, right the hell now, i'm not going to do it at all... I leave myself so very open for my own self-disappointments...

Watching "The West Wing" provides me with more motivation than me telling myself to get this shit done...

How sad is that.

Ok... So i don't feel totally useless, in re: GRE prep...

Attrition - [Two Gods Are Better Than One]--- I answered almost all of the verbal section, including Antonyms, Analogies, Sentence Completion, and Reading Comprehension. Each section had three versions of sample questions, and i've section three of Reading Comp left, in the verbal, and All of the quantitative analysis. Honestly, i have to say, the "Check Answer" feature, is a hindrance; it provides the heavy temptation to check the correctness of my answers, before moving on to the next question.

I would much prefer if i had to go through the whole thing, get a list of right and wrong, and, at the end, have it walk me through why i was wrong, and help me understand the procedure/reasoning for the correct answers. But that's me, and i'm a comprehensive learner.

I'm going to try to finish the verbal section, tonight, take the quantitative analysis portion, when i get home tomorrow, and, saturday and Sunday, take the actual practice tests. (MC Paul Barman - [Excuse You]). There are two. That should be interesting.... At least i'm actaully fucking working, now, and not simply freaking the hell out... Though i do still foresee problems, for which i'm not going to be able to prepare in under a week. Hell, this is something that should have been corrected over my entire schooling career, if it was to be corrected at all. What i mean is, i don't know that i'm going to be able to formulate and write out a cohesive argument and/or analysis essay in 45 and 30 minutes, respectively.

Screamin' Jay Hawkins - [I Put a Spell on You]--- I know I can Write a persuasive essay, and i know that i can Analyse the shit out of someone else's arguments. I simply don't know that i can do those things, in 45 and 30 minute periods. MAybe i can, and all i need is the incentive. That's certainly possible. But i don't know that it is the fact and truth of the matter. (Tori Amos - [Amazing Grace]). I guess that's why i'm taking the practice tests, eh? Making sure of all of this shit.

Well, either way, if anyone feels like praying, sacrificing, worshiping at an altar of purest purple-black obsidian, to me, over the next few days, feel free. ;)

Later.