The GMAT is finally out of my life

It's true. I took it for the second time and now I am done done done done done. Done. For the last three weeks that test has consumed my waking hours. I have lived, breathed and dreamed about standardized tests. Literally - two weeks ago I dreamed I was part of an elite group of girls who where hunting a coven of vampires who were trying to cheat on the LSAT (they went down, y'all) and last week I dreamed I was taking the test and got a 35 ... which I was thrilled with, since in the context of that particular dream the GMAT was scored like the ACT. It was kind of heartbreaking to wake up and realize that 1. A 35 would not be a good score and 2. I hadn't taken it yet.

BUT I finally took it yesterday and even scored a couple points higher than I'd hoped! In the spirit of complete honesty, though (since I just kind of bragged), some of that may possibly be due to extremely lucky guesses - I did the last 5 math problems in 2 minutes. And while I hope never to take it again, I can't say I've put it all the way behind me yet. I dreamed about the test again last night; in a horrible twist of fate, I was trying to rescue someone - I think trains were involved - and needed to use exponents in order to do so. Given that, I'm surprised I didn't wake up in a cold sweat. Although I did wake up knowing exactly what problem on the test the dream had come from.

But other, non-test-related things have also happened in my life, I promise! Some of the other girls and I drove up to Normandy a couple Saturdays ago and went to Omaha beach (and the American military cemetery next to it), then into Bayeaux to see the Bayeaux Tapestry. I think I can safely say that those were some of the most exiting things I've done here, especially for the history geek in me. And seeing the American military cemetery was powerful.

Have not gone into Paris much recently, to my disappointment, but I plan to make it in this weekend. I pretty much always want to go into Paris, but over the last week it's finally started warming up some and we've had *gasp!* sunshine! So, hopefully, I'll have some time to wander around a park a little, and eat my weight in candy as a way to recover from the GMAT.