i took a test on scantron last thursday.  if you don’t know what this is, it’s just a page you bubble your answers in on.  this is how the professor grades it:

put scantron page into scantron machine.

that’s it.  nothing more.  so why haven’t i gotten my grade for this test?  could it be because every professor on every campus is out to make the students’ lives an exact reflection of hell?  i have the sneaking suspicion that the answer is a resounding yes, with little sparks flying outward all around it.  like this:

if i was a professor, that would be my biggest goal.  but i think my reasons are more justifyable than theirs. 

regarding a test i had this morning, a professor (of the evil variety, of course) sent an email last night telling us we could bring a dictionary to use during the test.  i read this email at 1:50 in the morning, as i was about to go to bed.  i felt he was telling me something, hinting that what will really get me an A on the test is a dictionary, that a dictionary is all i need be armed with for the trials of life.  sadly, however, i didn’t have a dictionary, but i felt that the message was so strong that i got into my car and drove to a 24 hour store.  they didn’t have dictionaries, so i went to another one, six minutes away.  they had them–TRIUMPH!–and i purchased it for $4.00.  i carefully put it in my bag when i got home, carefully, carefully, carefully as it was my key to life, and went to sleep at 2:30, confident that it would help me achieve my highly desired and much needed grade.

i took the test and didn’t open the dictionary once.

is it bad when your knee hurts whichever way you bend it?