there’s a price to pay for switching jobs

so i take a break from the eight I essays (because i’ve stopped making progress) to take a look at the application sites for S & M.  i found it interesting that the amounts of information required, and hence the amounts of writing required, were so different between the two schools. first, here are screencaps of the sidebars:
       
S has a total [...]

scandal? that’s a bit strong

the girl was lip-synching?  that’s just typical.  who’s surprised, really?  who even stayed tuned in long enough to see the performance?  (okay, maybe a few billion people did.  sorry if i offended you.)
look at these harsh, at times hilarious, headlines though.  is it really necessary to call her milli vanilli.
addendum (8/14): the la times now runs [...]

to-do’s – an update

高業：8月2825日考試（8、9月的場次早就全滿了，我只好每隔幾個小時就去查查有沒有名額空出來，還好皇天不負苦心人）。
Essays：目前仍處於「萬事起頭難」的階段。I學校共有8篇（2篇關於工作的描述、5篇一般問答題、1篇補充）。我決定逼自己本周末完成3篇！
閒書：剛看完ian mcewan的saturday及nick hornby的a long way down二書。繼續消化過去十年裡買了放在書架上作擺飾的小說中。
其他：the wire第一季、讀法文、準備找工作（！）

summer sounds

updated my muxtape (in an act of procrastination, clearly).
1. yo la tengo – how to make a baby elephant float (from: summer sun, 2003)
a track taken from “summer sun,” ylt’s chill-out album.  if this mixtape were a cd, the cover would be the picture of an elephant lying on its back in a bright yellow inflatable tub, [...]

t-day

今天去考了托福，感想如下：

listening怎麼這麼多題，聽到後來完全不專心，開始做白日夢，結果有一題竟然答不出來。
speaking還真難答，我幾乎每一題都亂扯一通，分數想必不妙。不過我也認清了自己的問題其實不完全是英文程度不夠好，而是表達能力根本就有缺陷。就算要我用中文介紹國慶日30秒，我可能也講得坑坑疤疤。後來聽到身邊其他人此起彼落的回答，表達流暢有條理，發音也標準，頓感鬱悶。
原來同一天同個考場的題目是完全相同的，有心要作弊的話並不難（speaking部分）。

不曉得分數要等幾天，希望不至於爛到要重考（I學校的門檻是105分）。