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Half the beast is dead, it just keeps kicking.
Im halfway done with my tests, the two hardest ones are past, the hardest one was today. It kicked my ass. It was rough. I wrote for three hours straight, aside from the 10 minutes i spent reading the question, and dont feel like i got close to finishing. It was preposterously hard. But its done. Im trying to focus on that. One more on friday, then one more on tuesday. But no more self pitying rants (for now).
I had one of my stupider moments the other night. Me and erin were studying, and she had a candle cuz she likes the smell. Whatever. So we're studying, and i of course start playing with the candle and the wax with my pen. This is one of those pens with the metal strip on it, so you can hook it to your shirt. So then, not remembering that metal gets hot, i go to remove the cap, and proceed to burn myself extremely bad. We heard a sizzle. It blistered. It burned. It sucked. So that was pretty humorous, at least the next day when it only really hurt, instead of agonizingly so. I just keep telling people I burn myself to deal with stress, and that i looked for help, but when i looked for self mutilation stuff, i just got melissas blog :).
Today my friend john decided to spend his birthday money/tax return check to get a Gamecube, and wanted me to go along as an enabler, for those of you that dont know, this is the person that goes with to help reassure the other person that their purchase is not only a good idea, but that its NECESSARY as well. So we go to the counter, and the two young girls are discussing american idol as we approach. John buys his system, and they reccomend he buy this additional insurance thing that would let him get credit if it didnt work blah blah blah. So john says no thanks, and she starts pushing, i dont know if shes showing off or whatnot for her friend, and stressing all this warranty stuff, spouting all this stuff about how nintendo and playstation have these warranty problems and theyll try to screw us and blah blah, and says that its 'all this legal jargon you wouldnt understand'. Legal jargon. That we wouldnt understand, but ms. best buy here does. Her friend tries to reaffirm what her friend is saying. She uses the phrase 'its hard to understand'. Now mind you, I just finished a test on which one of the quesitons dealt with warranties. The test I have friday has quite a bit about warranties on it. John, though he has studied some different stuff, is much smarter than I. We let these two have it with both barrels, we start asking em questions about all of this stuff, calling them out completely. They get flustered, and ask 'if you really want clarification we can get our manager', this is after theyve lost their sparkly demeanors. John says 'ok, yeah, i do think this needs more explaining'. So the manager comes over, and we basically back him into a corner too, and ask 'so this really has no purpose?' referring to the insurance stuff. He says its a 'convienence'. So then john asks him why they try to scare us into it. And he gives some bullshit answer, and off we go. Anyway, it was a big law dork moment, one of my real first. The pain of the exam was worth seeing the slow grin go across johns face at the 'legal jargon' comment. Plus, it made me feel like maybe I am learning something. That it applies. That I may have a 'skill'. One that applies to the real world.
Anyway, more studying tomorrow. I should sleep. After I burn myself.