Friday, November 30, 2007
There’s no other word for it, dear friends. It takes a special kind of moxie to post a picture of your pumpkin pie, promise scintillating tales of the Thanksgiving That Was, and then bugger off for a week, only to resurface with...another picture and another promise of tales to come. It takes an even more special moxie to do this after you’ve spent the remainder of the holiday weekend in the bosom of your family, who take you out for the world’s best birthday dinner and shower you with beautiful and astonishing gifts in celebration of your Birthday With a Zero. And it takes all available world stocks of moxie, after years of self-indulgent birthday blogging, to turn 40 and not utter a peep about it. Shameless? Oh, without a doubt, yes.
Having established my scoundrel credentials, I will hereby certify them: I blame it all on the LSAT. Or rather, I blame much of it on the LSAT. I blame much more of it on the rapidly-rising toxicity of the environment at LuthorCorp, but as LuthorCorp becomes more unpleasant, it also becomes more unbloggable, so I won’t pursue that avenue of thought any further. What energy I’ve had left at the end of a day has been dedicated to studying for the LSAT, running puzzles and drills, and trying to improve on last year’s train wreck of a test score, which I achieved after a pre-test bout of flu, or food poisoning, that robbed me of my good night’s sleep, leaving me a nauseated, keyed-up wreck on the bathroom floor at the Parker House in Boston. Since I am not traveling the day before the test, since tonight I will be at Bunni’s house, watching The Magic Christian and a few hours of Law & Order and/or Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares until I feel sufficiently Zen-minded, I’m pretty confident that this year’s test will be much, much better.
The test is tomorrow morning, from 8:30 until about 1:30. I’ll be back sometime after that. No, really, I will. Don’t look at me like that. 
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Bakerina at 12:39 PM in
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Best of luck Bakes! I have my fingers and toes crossed for you!
Happy belated birthday! I’m glad it was lovely.
Lots and lots of luck and good sleep and good vibrations and whatever for the test tomorrow. I know you’ll do marvelously.
Break a leg (then have a glass of wine at 1:31 p.m
That Jodi just cracks me up (snork) 
Think like the lawyerly version of Ramsay, only without the booze, and you’ll do just fine.
(Dude, I have Kitchen Nightmare nightmares. Daymares, even. I swear when I slip cutting an onion, I hear Gordon Ramsay in my ear telling me someone should remove all knives from within fifty metres of me, fer fucksake, what was I thinking, trying to cut an onion. I can’t stand that man, no matter how good his desserts are.)
Lood Guck! Dool Cugk, O Dol Guk, Guk, C? Er, such a belated happy birthday wish, and such good wishes for tomorrow morning. Drool smock!
And how did you know we were looking at you exactly like that?
Best
Awww honey. I’m so glad I dropped by. You won’t get my good wishes until after the fact, but good enough. You’ve been in my thoughts tonight, and I didn’t want to call for fear you were doing late night cramming or whatever. In any case, my thoughts are still with you—for birthday, for LSAT, for all good things.
HAPPY Birthday, Bakie! And welcome to the 4-OH NO Club, which I begrudgingly joined last month my own damn self. <sigh>
And GOOD LUCK on the LSAT tomorrow! You can do it...you’re brilliant! So say we all.
--Gina
Best of luck, dear Bakerina! I’ll be sending logical thoughts and good vibes your way tomorrow. (Not that you’ll need them, I’m sure.)
Oh Lee Ann, I’m so glad I’m not the only one with those nightmares. Even though I love watching the show, I admit every time I plan to make a nice dinner or a cocktail party I start hearing that voice in my ear saying “You said you could cook, you can’t even make eggs fer fuck’s sake.”
Hope it went as you want it to. Was thinking about you. From the “bar pass list” to this round of lsat.. lots of good thoughts going around to you types.
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Best of luck Bakes! I have my fingers and toes crossed for you!