Well, it’s back to life as normal as of today. My mom who’d been out here for a week and a half went home yesterday, and my apartment felt sort of empty with just me and the cats as a result. No worries–I went out and bought a ton of yarn so that I’d never have empty hands as the new TV season starts up this week! Tonight I already watched the premiere of America’s Next Top Model, a rather dreadful guilty pleasure. They have a token smart girl this season (Ivy League student), which I always enjoy. (How long will it take her to whine about how stupid all the rest of the girls are? Oh, wait, she already told Tyra that in her audition!)
But all silliness aside, I have something real to do tomorrow–I’m taking the Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB) test, in order to measure officially my aptitude to learn languages. I’m doing this for a program that I’d like to get into–you have to get a pretty high score, but from what I read about the test, it sounds like stuff that I’m normally good at, so I hope it’ll go smoothly. No sense in getting nervous–that just impairs your performance! However, several very smart people that I know took the test and got high scores but not quite high enough to get into this program… which makes me question how well I’ll do. (Apparently they let you retest but only after a certain amount of time has elapsed.)
But I just took a mini-DLAB called the CTI challenge, and scored well… so maybe I’ll be OK. (Though often this kind of pre-tests give you false hope because they’re ridiculously easy in comparison with the real thing.)
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