Travel Plans, etc.

Before I get into my post, I’d just like to record for my personal purposes that this past week has made me proud to be an American for the first time in a long while. Hooray for everyone. :D

That said, I’ll be visiting some new locations in the next few months. My travel plans are as follows:

November 21 - 23: Boston, MA
November 26 - December 4: Hawaii
December 12 - 14: Atlanta, GA

Also, sometime in March or April, I’m trying to plan a short week-long trip to Spain, which has been on my to-do list for a long time. The Boston trip is for the Harvard-Yale game; I’ll be staying with one of Amy’s friends. Obviously, I have no interest in the actual results of the game, I’m just going to hang out with old high school friends living in the Northeast.

Hawaii is my Thanksgiving trip with my family. The plus side is that it’ll be a nice change from the current weather conditions to be able to get into a bathing suit and do water activities under the sun. The con is, of course, I’ll have to wear a bathing suit. Yeech.

The Atlanta trip is tentative. The tickets are about $250, which I can afford technically, but I don’t know if I’d rather save up for other things like the aforementioned trip to Spain. We’ll see.

Anyway, those are just some of my updates on life. Obviously, if anyone’s going to be in any of those places at those times and would like to meet up, I’m sure I’d be happy to see you unless you suck. Suck less! Just kidding.

Work is…going. There are better days and worse days, mostly depending on the type and amount of work that is available. Oh, we also had our FIG outing that was actually really fun. They took us on a tour of the Federal Reserve gold vault, and later that night we had a lovely dinner and drinks at Cipriani’s at 55 Wall where we got to meet everyone’s plus-ones (e.g. wives and girlfriends). I discovered the next day that going to work partially hung over really sucks.

Anyway, now that the financial crisis has somewhat abated, at least in terms of rush-rush spur-of-the-moment deals taking place every other day, I’m re-focusing on my LSAT studying regime. I’m trying to gather the motivation to take 1-2 full length, timed exams each week until the end of the year. After that, I’ll try to ramp it up to 2-4 until February 7th, which is my test date. In all, I hope to take roughly 30 timed tests by the time I take the real thing. Mostly, I think I need to get used to having to concentrate for such a long period of time, which has been difficult for me. Additionally, I’d like to have done ALL of the available logic games by test day. That’s the goal, anyway.

In all, I’ve completed 6 full length tests currently, but only 2 of which were timed. I’ve can tell I’m improving, but I need to up my score by 7 points to reach my goal. I’m not sure if this is too lofty a goal, but we’ll see. Wish me luck, please!