Wow.

Just wow. I never knew standardized tests could be that inane. Boring, yes, but inane? I just spent 4 hours (technically 5) on that bloody thing and I only laughed at it once, at some random phrase that conjured up a mental picture of an inside joke that I can't even remember right now. It was that bad.

So, yeah, hype the new SAT. Let's hype the damn thing out of here and go back to the older, shorter, only slightly boring one. I think the other one was harder, too. Not that it was hard. Just harder. As usual, the first section (the part where you have to fill out your name, age, et al) was the hardest part; I almost didn't get it finished in time.

The essay was blindingly easy. Though, I must say, 25 minutes is not nearly enough. I was only able to jot down four (or was it five?) short paragraphs. And I'm the type who doesn't outline at all; I just write the thing straight through. But, I think it came out pretty well. Forty minutes, the same amount of time you get for the essays on the AP English test, would have been nice, though. Maybe that's why I thought this one was easy; I'm so used to the AP questions that this one just begged to be put out of its misery.

The math was easier, too. Of course, that could be because I didn't know half the stuff I do now when I took the old SAT last June. But then, I got a 640 on that section, so I must have known *something*. Eh, it doesn't really matter. As long as it's somewhere near what my PSAT scores this year predicted (straight 80s for the language sections, 63 in math) I should be okay. But I do have to wonder about that essay. I've heard from a trained essay scorer that they'll probably be pretty leniant in scoring them this time around (just a hunch, not an official statement), but I dunno. I'm thinking I pulled a 10 out of 12, but I may be wrong. There's always hope....

New Site

Just set up a catch-all site for myself: RLC Studios. Granted, all that's there right now is a bunch of links, but it'll be built pretty soon. Anyways, check it out, nyo?

So where the hell's the inspiration?

It's midnight, and I should be inspired. But I'm not. I'm just bored. I'm *always* inspired at midnight, because I can't usually write stuff down then without climbing out of bed and fighting a battle with all the junk in my room to find paper. But not tonight.

*sigh*

Watch, it'll happen as soon as I get into bed. Life sucks like that. And is it just me, or did this blog get very boring very quickly? Eh, probably just me; most likely it's been boring the whole time.

Another StatUp

Quick little Status Update: GT4 gave up the fight and started letting me win races, but the power cord came unplugged at one point and shut the whole thing off. Hopefully autosave got everything but the last race, but I'm not sure; I didn't bother to find out. So basically I've given up and now I'm working on HR stuff and trying to get this story together. No school tomorrow, so there's plenty more time to work and I don't have to worry about getting up at any specific time. For once I'm looking forward to midnight inspiration.

Posting about randomness

Not entirely sure why I'm posting this. I just had an urge to write and felt like writing here. So that's what I'm doing. Anyways, things are going pretty well right now (except for the fact that I can't for whatever reason seem to spell and have to keep hitting backspace). Certainly a hell of a lot better than they were two weeks ago. But, I won't get in-to that. It's in the past, it's resolved, and I'm damn glad it's all over now. All the bad stuff, that is. I'm actually happier now than I have been in a *long* time, and I feel pretty damn inspired to boot. Currently I'm writing poems like crazy, or at least had been, but that seems to finally be wearing off. I'll still try for at least two every week-end, but now I can concentrate on other things. Like posting totally random entries here. Woohoo! As I said in Triple R (now officially 'The Briefing Room') I'll try to get working on HR again some time this week, though if I get pissed enough at my inability to win races in GT4 it may happen sooner than I thought. i.e. in a few hours. Anything I come up with that's substantial enough will be posted over in the Briefing Room as soon as it's in a postable format. So yeah, that's pretty much the StatUp for now.