Today I made a decision

Today, in an attempt to overcome my blog-writer's-block and blog-writing-angst (it's been what, a month since my last post?) I have decided to do something different with this thing. My new goals is to write a short post every day (good luck to me on that!). The operative word here is short. After all, the original goal of this was to keep family and friends up to date on what I was doing while I work/travel over the next year.

So, in hopes that this will stick, here's the first event du jour post!

Okay, it's actually an event du yesterday, but one can't have everything in life. So: yesterday I studied for the GRE!

Yes, I am aware that that is neither a CO-specific nor an interesting activity (trust me, I KNOW studying for the GRE is not quite a thrill ride), but I decided it was better to do a boring event than not post at all. Probably.

Anyway, I bought a prep book to help study because, after taking the GRE in Nov I realized that while I'm totally awesome at the verbal section I'm, well, less totally awesome at the math section. And now I'm very glad indeed that I bought the book because in the course I studying I realized that:

1. I really need it - because:

2. I remember almost nothing about math. I can barely remember how to multiply. And sometimes I have to think about the multiplication table a disgracefully long time.

Oh math, I seriously don't love you. But last night I was feeling pretty good about things. I was going through the math section, and I was sure that I was going to go into the GRE saying, "Take that, GRE! I will destroy you! I laugh at your "hard" math problems!"

And then I did the 10 practice problems at the end of the section. And got, oh, about 5 right (which is .5, or 1/2, or 50% - maybe the studying is paying off!).

Yeah.

So, unfortunately, I foresee quite a few more evenings spent in the company of my fabulous GRE prep book. But hopefully something else will happen on those days so I won't have to keep writing about them!