I'm alive

I haven't posted in like a month, but life has been pretty crazy, and I'm alive. Classes are going okay, only three of them are actually A-F grade scale. In my argumentation and debate class, I think that I am maintaining an A, and in my religion class, I had an A, but I didn't do so hot on the last exam, so we'll see how that goes. And in my British Literary History class, I can't seem to get above a B on one of his papers. THere are only three grades in the class--three papers and I've gotten Bs on both of them. I know that Dr Wiley is supposed to be a genius, but I never have to struggle on papers, so I'm going to go talk to him to see what it takes for me to get a better grade on a paper. Ugh, and I took the GRE last Tuesday--yeah, well. I did average on the verbal part and slightly below average on the quantitative part, stupid math. I think that I did really well on the writing sample, but I won't know how well I actually did for another two weeks. I know that the places that I have scoped out for grad school don't put too much emphasis onthe GRE, but it just frustrates me that I am such and good student and consider myself to be fairly intelligent, but I can't whoop standardized tests' asses.
Mlargh. HOWEVER, we went to the Doane Nut a couple of weeks ago, and even though Day 1 didn't go so well, I totally whooped Day 2's ass. I got 2 firsts and a second, and I qualled my CA! I am still kinda in shock. I never qual this early. For three years, I didn't qual anything until the last half of second semester. So, now that I am qualled I get to go to HFO in January in Austin. Oh, and we are flying this year, so having one qual is a prerequisite. I am so glad that we don't have to drive, the last time we drove to Austin, I thought that the van was going to explode with passive aggressive anger. It was horrible.
I am also still kinda on the rocks as far as where I am at in the whole applying to and getting into Grad School and getting an assistantship thing. I have applications, but have not filled any out, and I have not even looked up the deadlines, I really need to do that crap, but just haven't been focusing on it.

Anyways, smoke time.

Contemplate this: Can I hire someone to just do all of this grad school crap for me?