divine angst

I finally got my new phone. I can take it back within 14 days and get my money back as well as have the contract extension cancelled.

My new phone…well, I don’t love it as much as my new computer, but it’s pretty cool. It has a color screen and polyphonic ring tones, which makes it a huge step up from my last phone, may it rest in ghetto hell where it belongs.

I am pleased, though, that in buying a new phone I did not succumb to the everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink temptation. My phone is a PHONE. It is not a camera or a video camera or an MP3 player. It does have some sort of rudimentary “personal assistant” which I will never use, and it has WAP access which I will also NEVER use. But it’s basically a phone. And that is a Good Thing.

Stupid LSAC. Thanks for the nice “eff you!” to me and to anyone who applied to law school last fall or earlier.

Many of us actually PAID our $50-something to be able to use LSAC’s fancy-dancy electronic application system, the one that automatically populates all your applications with your basic data. But new applicants, people applying August 2005 and after? Nope, they won’t pay. From now on, it’s gonna be FREE.

Somehow I don’t think the system got CHEAPER for LSAC to administer. They just decided they didn’t need more money from a group of people who are already strapped for cash, what with paying hundreds of dollars to a) take the LSAT, b) sign up for LSDAS, and, oh yes, c) pay application fees.

Think they could have done this last year? Absolutely. Do you think they care that thousands of people unnecessarily shelled out money that went directly into their pockets? Nope.

They suck.

Josh is so right. This student loan stuff is too easy. I sent in a form today for some money. Mr. Angst sent his the other night. With no more effort than signing my name (or him pushing a button), we have a promise that someone will send us thousands of dollars at the beginning of the school year.

Too easy, man, too easy.

Bodies are weird things.

I’ve been having trouble with backward rolls in aikido. I just can’t manage to do them correctly over my left shoulder. I can do rolls over my right shoulder without much difficulty, and I can do forward rolls just fine on both sides. But no left-shoulder backward rolls yet, at least not without jacking up my neck.

It’s strange how “handed” we are, even beyond our hands. One of my hips has greater rotation (I can roll it out) and the other is more flexible (I can bend forward over it more). I can touch my back between my shoulder blades with one arm twisted up behind me, but not with the other. And I can’t do left-shoulder backward rolls without jacking up my neck.

I’m not as sore as I thought I would be today, but I think that’s just an ominous sign that the real pain is yet to come. Tomorrow, I probably won’t be able to move. We have some time off, though, since we’re going out of town for the weekend and will miss our Thursday night class. I don’t want to regress, so Mr. Angst said he’ll take me to the park and work with me on my rolls. He’s much better at rolls than I am, probably since he’s been doing them for so long.