Blech, so I took my GRE today in the morning, which was an adventure all on its own. I was up in Santa Cruz the night before since it was a much shorter drive from there, although in the end I could have probably gotten more sleep here in Monterey and just drove all the way to San Jose. Friday night / Saturday morning, I was tossing, turning, coughing, and trying to make myself sleep. I think I got an hour of sleep, but that's only because I don't remember anything between when I was stopped watching the little pilot light in H's gas fireplace and when Lea started moving around to go down to Monterey for the LSATs. So I took the GRE on pretty much no sleep and a stressful drive up Hwy. 17 in fog and rain. All things considered, I did okay, although I am very unhappy with my verbal score. Nothing like a standardized test to inform you that while you may understand vocabulary, you are an English-idiot when it comes to testing. On the path I managed a 670, which was quite adequate. The math section seemed as simple as the SATs did, the verbal seemed insanely more difficult. I need to start saving the $150 to take it again (if CSUMB asks me to) so I can improve my score.
After the GRE, I went with H to her campus anime club, only Chris (uh... one of them... there are too many people named "Chris" there) forgot his audio cable. Not keen on walking back through the rain to the car for a 15 minute trip, I opted to stay, thinking I would know someone there. Yup, I was wrong. So I introduced myself, talked for a bit, and things were okay, although partway through I was really wishing I had opted to go on the cable trip. When they asked why I was up here, I explained about the test and hanging out with friends. The conversation then took a turn for the worse.
Him: "So, you're friends with H?"
Me: "Yeah." okay, thought we established this
Him: Do you know if she is seeing anyone?
Me: "Eh...not that I can think of" why me? I try not to know these things ;_;
Thankfully, he was then asked a question about Transformers Beast Wars and I was spared any other conversation. I just parked it on the carpet and closed by eyes just to rest. When everyone got back, anime was watched, though my brain was too tired to really pay any attention so I kept zoning in and out. After the meeting was some games, some pizza, and a musical that was a winner in so many ways. I was originally hoping to get back around 7 or so in the hopes I could get homework done, but that didn't happen. I got back around 10:30 barely able to keep my eyes open. The only reason this is written now is I am waiting for everything I took the moment I walked into the door to kick in. I managed to cough myself so raw that I was almost in tears by the time I left Santa Cruz. My God I've abused my body this week between the flu, forcing the recovery for school, and then doing the GREs on no sleep. I think this is the first time in a long long while where I am very happy to be away from Santa Cruz back in my own private little quiet world.
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