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Man, I was stressing. Yesterday I went to go take my Math Placement exam at CCSN, and I really took my sweet time.
I woke up later than I wanted to, and I hadn't eaten, so when I finally left after Dad and Sophia seeing me off, I hadn't eaten breakfast, so I was starving, so I thought, "Why not just have something to eat first? It'd be dumb to test without something in my stomach?" So I walked to Jack In The Box, since it was nearby the bus stop. I grabbed two of those breakfast burritos, damn they make good ones. But then I had to put off taking the test even more, by going to Gameworld.
It was empty, it usually is pretty quiet, even when they have TCG tournaments. The nice old asian lady greeted me, I'll be damed if I can't remember her name. I know Beverly and Amanda would just call her "Mom" when they would stop by. She and this other lady, I'm not sure if she's family or if she's just a friend was there, they just sat talking, having lunch.
I noticed immediately they had a new arcade game, which I found out later they must have swiped from that one Internet cafe near the Meadows Mall, I think it's called Cyberpunks. Anyway, it was Neo Geo Battle Coliseum, which is relatively new I guess, I Wikipedia'd it later and it said it came out like December '05 in Japan. It's another mix of fighters, similar to SNK vs. Capcom Chaos, but it's just Neo-Geo. It's weird, there's two new characters I guess they made for the game, one of them is this girl Ai, who is like a gamer or something, all her attacks are like video game based. She uses a baseball bat out of nowhere to swing at you, and I even managed to pull of one of her Special Moves, which was like she played on this little device on her wrist, and this barrage of Tetris blocks fall on you. Pretty sweet game if it wasn't for the boss character, Mizuchi. Cheating b*****d, the Wikipedia even says he's really difficult. emo
When I gave up playing, "Mom" asked me how I did. I told her, and then out of nowhere she asked me how old I was. I of course told her I was 17, and she started sort of mumbling to herself and everyone about how I must have been coming here since I was 8, because the shop's been open for about 10 years. At first I disagreed, but then I remembered way back when it wasn't even that big of a store, and they only sold like TCG cards, and I was in 4th grade when I was 8, and that was around the time I got huge into the Pokèmon cards. It was nice to think that she remembers something like that, I'm not one of their best customers, but I always stop by when I'm around, and she always is really nice.
So I headed off after that to the college for real this time. Long bus ride, nothing special, it was nice because it's been cloudy lately, and the AC in the back was a complete relief. I love how the construction is coming across the West Charleston library, it's looking so cool, it's hard to imagine I used to run around that area all full of weeds after Anime Vegas' a year or two ago.
So I made it to the campus, and signed up for the test. I checked in to see if they had my results for the English Placement, but it seems no one had touched it yet. I guess it's because they have to read tons of essays. So I went into take my math stuffs. It was multiple choice, you get scratch paper and a pencil, it's on the computer, and you get a little on-screen calculator. The first section you have to do, I can't remember what it was called, was pretty easy, I'm just terribly glad I remembered a lot of what I learned in Algebra II this year. The second portion was like walking through a minefield blindfolded, it was like all Pre-Trig and some Calculus I think. They stopped me after that. I guess when you reach your limit on your Math knowledge, it stops you. This girl who sat next to me started the test after me but finished before, I guess she didn't do well enough on the first step. I shouldn't have, but I glanced at her screen, and her score sheet had only one section scored, I didn't look long enough to see anything else.
Mine looked the same except I had two spots. The first score was like an 87, the second was 26. The test proctor girl told me I had qualified for Math 96. This of course made my heart stop, because of course what everyone tells you is that anything under like 101 and stuff is like a remedial math course. So of course I was like asking her questions and questions, and she said I could take a diagnostic to challenge this score, and then if I do well enough, I'll go into the other class above it, which would be Math 122. That sounded better. Now, looking back at the course schedules, it's actually not as bad as I made it out to be. It's not remedial, and it wouldn't be hard to make it to Calculus from there. Of course, I didn't know that over there, so I went to McDonald's and drowned my sorrows in an apple pie and a milkshake. gonk heart
So I made it home stressed, depressed, and some other -essed. My parents were in their room, and I was tired and hot and mentally worn down from still freaking out about the scores, so I took a long shower, and when I got out my Dad was mad I hadn't announced my arrival when I got home. Kelly had already gone to get Panda Express without me. Which was bullshit, cause I got in the shower first thing, if she had left before I hopped in, I would have heard it. I know they can tell if my shower is in too, it's not exactly hard to miss when the halls are as thin, I could talk to one of them from between each shower.
I was really full anyway, but my dad made me eat that leftover chicken because nobody else wants it, so I ended up sitting there long after they were done like a little kid who won't eat his vegetables. They left their Panda Express containers on the table though, so when they weren't looking I shoveled the food into one of the containers and went to the sink to clean my empty plate. Heh, I've still got it.
After that, I went on Gaia here to check how I'm doing in the Arena. Considering I'm not in the Top 10, I'm still doing super well, I've made lots of friends in the Avatar Arena. Cuddle Core's been really supportive, she loves my ideas. She, along with lots of other people have marked me as one of their top favorites for Week 27. For reference, CC was the one who did Georgette Washington, and we had this hilarious discussion, because a friend showed her one of the new posters Gaia is selling in their store, and one of the avatar drawings is a deadringer for hers, as well as Kaboodle's postman, being attacked by the dog. They have demanded a free poster as reparations. xd
Kaboodle told me that the posters are only like $2.99, but with shipping and handling, taxes and other stuff it comes out to around $10. I think it's worth it for Avatar Immortality. I'd like it if my avatar was one of them, it'd be funny to see him as a drawing.
Edible Substance · Tue Jul 04, 2006 @ 05:18am · 0 Comments |
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