divine angst

I just found out that [Big Unnamed State University] is holding a law fair TODAY from 45 minutes ago until 3 pm.

So the great debate is, do I try to go? It’s a hassle to go down there and park, and I’m not sure what I’d do besides walk around and grab marketing materials from booths. My time would also be limited to my lunch hour, which means, given 10-15 minutes for travel in either direction, I’d have roughly 30 minutes of actually being at the thing.

Still, I feel I should go, if only to get a feel for some of the schools I’m looking at, for their personalities.

Blargh.

Update: I went. I grabbed some marketing materials, asked the guy from Northwestern about the interview thing (getting to Chicago=hard), and chatted with the guy from Chicago about quality of life issues. Georgetown wasn’t there; GW lady was swamped, so my questions about the commute between Baltimore and DC will have to wait.

I finished my personal statement. Oh joy!

Vegas was fun. I lost all the money I gambled with, but enjoyed watching two friends kick some serious ass on the slot machines. I know, how can you kick ass on a slot machine? I can’t really answer that question, but these two girls managed. One put five bucks into a machine and ten minutes later had a C-note. Damn!

Today’s interesting factoid that I did not know (from the New York Times):

This year is the 50th anniversary of the first successful human organ transplant.

I had no idea. Organ transplants have become so commonplace that I tend to forget this is relatively new technology. We’re awfully jaded about transplants, to the extent that when tragedies happen and the surgeries aren’t successful, we get very upset with the doctors. (I’m thinking of the gentleman who died after donating part of his liver to his brother. I believe his family sued the hospital for wrongful death.) The fact is, organ transplants are still pretty damn miraculous. Medical technology never ceases to amaze me. Oh, yes, and the rest of that article is pretty interesting.

Lastly, in memoriam: Christopher Reeve, Jaques Derrida, and the University of Texas Longhorns’ chance at the national championship.