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Open Thread with Rainbow Lorikeets

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These two rainbow lorikeets having a little rest in one of Sydney’s Botanical Gardens are the hosts for this week’s Open Thread. Their cousins wake me up most mornings larking about in the pohutukawa tree in my front garden. Please natter/chatter/vent/rant on anything* you like over this weekend and throughout the week.

Two Rainbow Lorikeets perched on a branch, their brightly coloured feathers fluffed out
Two Rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus) at Auburn botanical gardens, By Aussiegall [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

So, what have you been up to? What would you rather be up to? What’s been awesome/awful?
Reading? Watching? Making? Meeting?
What has [insert awesome inspiration/fave fansquee/guilty pleasure/dastardly ne’er-do-well/threat to all civilised life on the planet du jour] been up to?

* Netiquette footnotes:
* There is no off-topic on the Weekly Open Thread, but consider whether your comment would be on-topic on any recent thread and thus better belongs there.
* If your comment touches on topics known to generally result in thread-jacking, you will be expected to take the discussion to #spillover instead of overshadowing the social/circuit-breaking aspects of this thread.

13 thoughts on Open Thread with Rainbow Lorikeets

  1. One of my second-cousins hosted a ladies’ high tea brunch for the rest of our generation (and the next (and the next)) today. We all brought a plate of tasty stuff along with us, and had tee-total fruit punch with the savouries and then tea and coffee with the sweets. There were several littlies of our grandchild generation there to be admired, we were on a lovely verandah while the rain fell on her lush palm and fern garden, and several hours passed in a flash.

    There are worse ways to spend a rainy Saturday.

      1. Nobody did tea sandwiches! In retrospect, an oversight. We all did finger-foods so that we could use the dainty heirloom china side plates (very little of which matches, but together it all looks good), and we all sipped very elegantly from the assorted teacups.

  2. I registered to take the LSAT in June. I’m scared but I know I want this. My grades aren’t great but I think I can do it. So right now my mantra is “if Harley Quinn can get into med school, I can get into law school” and it’s weirdly comforting.

    1. You cannot really overstate the importance of the LSAT. I used to teach folks to take it and very few of them really “got” how crucial it was.

      You already spent 4 years and probably $40-200,000 on college. This single day test will allow you to leverage it–or not–and is therefore of immense value.

      My main advice is that you should treat studying for the LSAT like a full (or at least) part-time job, with payoffs which are well above what most folks earn in their day job. Aim for 3 hours/day, 5 days/week.

      ( A difference in 10 LSAT points can get you a free ride at some schools. That’s worth from $50k-$120k or thereabouts. All of a sudden, 15 hours/week doesn’t seem so bad, right?)

      1. Yeah, my grades are merely average so I’m putting a lot of focus on doing well on the LSAT, I’ve already started looking at the format and I just registered today. From what I remember, the library had prep stuff but do you recommend the prep courses as a good idea?

        1. Do the prep courses AND spend the time doing lots of practice tests on your own. The money I spent on the Logic Games Bible paid for itself 1000 times over (from getting me aid, getting me into the school I wanted, which got me a Biglaw gig).

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