What I learned from the LSAT ...

"There's something I'm missing. Look again."

OK, maybe I learned it from "Mystery," which I've been watching on PBS lately. Inspector Lynley is hot, and Miss Marple a hoot. (I only get PBS on TV; well, that a Korean channel - last time I watched it, I got a little crush on Yi Soon-Shin.)

But I think it was those analytical puzzles on the LSAT - the ones that are solvable but not easy. Look again, you missed something. So many times I said that to myself. (Though, not aloud, because THAT WOULD BE RUDE IN A TEST SETTING!!)

Now, with my Sudoku addiction, I say it regularly still. And just took a calculus test and had to say it again. Stared at a question for probably 20 minutes, came back to it, kept staring. I KNEW I knew how to do it, but couldn't think of the solution. Then, it came to me, because I was missing something.

I'm thrilled with this new LSAT wisdom. So, maybe it wasn't about law school at all, but about just learning that. Good grief - that's a lot of time and money just to learn that! Well, I guess I'm a slow learner.

Today, I think ECONOMICS.

Paul sent me this:
"watcha doin this wknd, wanna go to vegas, see red hot chilli pepprs"

That was it.

My first thought was, "Yeah, I wanna go." Never been to Vegas (hate crowds, neon, gambling, commercialism) and never been really to a real concern (hate loud noise, spending money, see above about crowds). But Paul doesn't know all my strange quirks - knows hardly any of them. Seems it'd be the perfect person to go to Vegas to a concert with - one who cannot tell how miserable I am and only doing something because it's novel and discomfiting and so I can say I've done it once and never again.

Maybe I'll go, maybe I won't. Either way, it's fun to think of myself as though I'm back in my undergrad days, with time and energy to burn. Hell, maybe we'll go to Tijuana and get tattoos, just because we're young (well, he is, as I'm sure his friends are) and we can.