Not dead, yet

To allay your worries as to our whereabouts, and also to shut up those who have been whining that we have not posted recently, know this: we are taking the LSAT on Sunday. In Delhi.

Well, in Gurgaon, a southern suburb of Delhi filled with glassy high rises belonging to the likes of Ernst & Young, Deloit, Dell, and also filled with half-cultivated fields, cows, goats, and a weird quasi-modern not-totally-abandoned-but-maybe-partly-abandoned complex called Greenwood Plaza where our test center, Planet EDU, is located.

Amazingly, despite the fact that we learned upon visiting this week that the other inhabitants of the "Plaza" include a bootleg whiskey shop and a roadside cart that sells food out of a brass drum (quite good food actually) in a neat setup where a wild mud-covered boar serves as the trash can for all scraps and utensils once you are finished, the test center seems normal. They say they have air conditioning and I know for a fact that the woman at the desk speaks English. If you adjust your standards properly (and believe me, I have), those two facts are a dream. What that also means, unfortunately, is that if I do poorly on the LSAT it will be my own fault and I won't be able to blame it on roving livestock entering the classroom or the temperature in the room cresting at 130 degrees---both things I'd secretly been counting on as excuses for admissions committees. Oh well.

And with that, I leave you to return to the desolate world where my sole purpose in life is to determine where student X must sit if students Y and Z do not sit together but student B is out sick, given that the room is painted green and the teacher is ugly. Cross your fingers, toes, eyebrows, whatever you can cross for us. See you Sunday evening.