I do think I can do it. The problem is, I do not want to be over-confident in myself and then find out I screwed it up somehow. Yet, all the books tell you that you should have a positive attitude and be confident in yourself and that makes up 80% of your ability to pass.
Just to lighten the mood a bit, here are a few things that have happened this week due to my increased anxiety and basically just freaking out over this exam:
- Sunday night I decided to do one of the p90x workouts called "kenpo." It's basically like karate only it's more of a cardio workout where you throw a bunch of fast punch combinations into the air. You're supposed to do it with "intensity." Well, as you get more and more into the workout, it gets faster and faster. I was doing a combo that involved "hook uppercut" and trying to be "intense" when I proceeded to uppercut myself in the face. Luckily I didn't leave a bruise on myself or chip any of my teeth. lol
- Monday is garbage day here. And this past Monday I had a huge bag of garbage that needed to be taken out because it had food in it and when it's hot out, it stinks up the whole building if it's not taken out asap. So at about 12:45pm, I realized that I had forgotten to take my garbage out. I looked outside and saw that there was still someone else's bag there, so the garbage man hadn't come yet. I grabbed my garbage tags and started walking down the stairs with my garbage. Just then, I heard the garbage man pull up and drive away. I had JUST missed him. So instead of taking my smelly garbage back inside, I ran down the alley, yelling "hey! excuse me! hey! hello!" while the garbage man kept going from house to house. I ran about 2 blocks lugging my huge garbage bag along when I finally caught up to him and he finally saw me. He took my bag and told me to "keep the tags" apparently because he felt sorry for me. haha....and I'm sure I made a complete idiot out of myself to all my neighbors. But I got my garbage taken.
- I got back in the house after taking the garbage out and sat down to get back to studying. About 30 minutes later, I look down at my leg and realize that there's a huge gash in the side of it. I must have sliced it with something that was in the garbage. Luckily, it was not gushing blood, but it looked pretty disgusting. I put a bandaid on it and it's slowly healing and probably infected. Awesome.
- I was getting my electric bill ready to take to the post office when I walked over to my refrigerator to get a stamp (because everyone keeps their stamps on the refrigerator). As I was getting a stamp, I dropped the electric bill and it slid all the way under the refrigerator. I had to go get an old wire hangar to get it out. In the process of getting it out, my neck kinked up and I got a massive muscle spasm. On the plus side, with all this studying I've been doing lately, I knew exactly how to unlock it and relieved it instantly! I'm awesome. I also got my electric bill paid finally.
- Two nights ago, I had a dream that I was taking the NPTE. I woke up in the middle of it to the sound of my cat puking. Only it wasn't my cat. It was me! I was throwing up just by dreaming of this exam. Not fun.
Well, at least I can laugh at myself over the ridiculousness of everything that has happened this week. I may have done some pretty stupid things, but at least my incoordination lightened the mood a bit. Now it's back to worrying and freaking out for the next 27 hours.
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