Lobster Roll

Today I had the most amazing lobster roll. For those who don't know -- check out my condescending tone -- a lobster roll is simply a bunch of lobster meat, usually mixed with mayonaisse, jammed into a rolled up piece of bread (what one might call a "roll"). I've only had one in my lifetime, and it was okay. But today my parents and I drove an hour and a half to Wiscassett, Maine to dine at Red's Eats, the home of New England's #1 Lobster Roll. Much to my surprise, Red's was no bigger than a small deli stand. So I can imagine why there have historically been lines 2-hours long. Lucky for us, it was rainy and damp, so there was barely a line at all. Within minutes we had our rolls. And they were heavenly. Each roll contains one whole lobster's worth of meat, and its placed on a nicely grilled rolled up piece of bread. The butter/mayo comes on the side. I've never had seafood this fresh and tasty. Each roll was $14, but if you think about what you pay for a whole lobster at a restaurant (at least $25, right?), it's a damn bargain, and you don't have to mess with the shells. I remember eating at this expensive lobster place in Boston called Tina's (or something) and mangling this whole lobster for like two scoops of meat. What a rip, I thought, and I vowed never to order lobster again. I still won't...unless it's Red's Eats.

So that's what I did Sunday for Mother's Day. I ate a turkey burger for dinner and then enjoyed Fox's Animation Domination block: Two episodes of Simpsons, Family Guy, and American Dad. American Dad is weak, Family Guy is wonderful, and Simpsons is uneven. The funniest Family Guy bits: Quagmire's "Diggity diggity diggity!" and Peter's waterslide. For some reason I couldn't stop laughing at Homer's jazz hands.

On Saturday, I studyed for the GMAT by taking a practice test. I didn't do very well, mainly because I moved too slow through the math portion. I've become far too dependent on calculators for simple addition and subtraction, and figuring it out on scratch paper slowed me down. As for the verbal section, I fared well on the grammar questions (you have to choose which sentence is the most proper), missing only one or two, but I did terrible in reading comprehension and argumentation. When I went back to see which ones I got wrong, I was shocked by the so-called "correct" answers. There's no way in hell I can train myself to choose answers I just completely disagree with. The questions for the reading portions were often, "What is the author's attitude toward [blank]?", "Which of these statements can be inferred from the article?", and "The passage is primarily concerned with which of these ideas?" Same with the argumentation questions, which always ask which of 5 facts most supports/weakens the stated argument. I must have the most illogical, twisted mind, because I could not for the life of me understand why the "correct" answers were correct. I fared better in the latter portion. Maybe this means I just needed to warm up to these types of questions. But since the computer hones in on one's GMAT score by the halfway point, doing well in the second half won't be enough. I need to train hard, Rocky 4 style. I'll go to Russia, stay at a secluded wooden cabin in the mountains, grow a bushy beard, lift rocks, and climb to the top of a steep hill while the russian spy car gets stuck in the snow. So that the next time I face another article about obesity in mice, I'll be ready.

I watched "Undertow," David Gordon Green's latest. I didn't like it as much as "George Washington" or "All the Real Girls." Both those films had painful truths in it, eventhough the characters spoke in weird poetics. The conversations in "Girls" contained some heart-wrenching dialogue, and "Washington" was goddamned beautiful to look at. There's not much of this in "Undertow," and I missed it. 3/5.

I'm sorry, today's post was boring.

Aw shit, the new iPod commercial uses the new Gorillaz song. Dammit, I like that song. Leave it alone, corporate devils!