Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

What is the big day, you ask? Well, take a look at the “Blog Age” countdown clock on the right sidebar. That’s right… My blog is going to be three years old! Recently potty trained… I’m so proud!

When I take a practice test that I’ve taken before (but quite a while ago), I scored an 85%. This means I’m learning something. I just knew I was learning something! The frustrating thing is that it seems like the score I am likely to get on the actual exam is likely to be more similar to my scores on tests I haven’t seen before. Maybe if I know I can score 85% on all four of my computer-based practice exams, that will be a good sign. I mean, if I learn to score really well on five practice tests, then surely, my one actual test will have a lot from those five samples, right?

Just grasping for some positivity to keep me going so I can get through this thing. With today being the day I’d actually set that I wanted to take the test initially, I’m feeling LOTS of pressure, but little motivation, if that makes sense. It’s only the negative “Oh shit” feeling without the helpful “I can do this thing” feeling. I need a little more of that second one going on.

I went to high school with some highly talented individuals. Recently, an old classmate of mine uploaded some videos from the senior banquet to YouTube after some discussion of said video on the little social networking site I created for the upcoming 20 year reunion. This one is my favorite (of course my favorite isn’t the one that shows my horrible 80s hair!). Seriously, check this shit out:

I don’t get to blog for real. Takes away from my study time. But I can pop on briefly if I want. Yeah, that’s right! Take that, stupid attempts at discipline!! See, the first day I’d set to take this exam was 7/19, then 7/25, and my scores aren’t high enough. Now I feel a lot of pressure to get this thing DONE! I took part of an exam I’d taken before yesterday, and I got 85%, not my usual 60%. Seems every new exam is completely new material, so previous studying of items I got wrong doesn’t seem to help. It’s very annoying. Anyhoo, enough of that, gotta get a few more z’s, then hit the exams again. In the meantime, enjoy this silly comic:

An excerpt from his speech:

I call bullshit! Our President and Vice President are liars and have been from the start. They have lied to us. They’ve played on our patriotism, and conned us into supporting their misadventure long enough. We invaded Iraq for no valid reason that I can see. We’ve stayed in Iraq for no valid reason I can see. I’m ashamed that I went along with this folly. I’m sorry. I don’t care what does or does not happen with the “Surge.” I don’t care because our cause is wrong. We let an Oil Executive and a weak, unprincipled, ineffectual President lead us into a War of Oil Field Acquisition that has failed – as it should have failed. We’ve thrown away billions of dollars, thousands of lives, our place in the world, and our Constitution for absolutely no reason. I didn’t know that earlier, because they didn’t tell us or I was afraid to vote my “hunch.” But now I know. So I was wrong before. From this day forth, I’m obligated to do the right thing and vote against anything that prolongs this shameful blot on our history.

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Read the whole thing on dad’s blog, 1 Boring Old Man.