(a) Excellent advice on the math - it's amazing how much stuff had just flown out of my head since college. Some flew right back, but I still had a few, "Wait...I should know this, but I really, really don't" moments while taking the test (like, does zero count as an even integer?). In the end, did fine! Not as well as I did on the SATs, providing further evidence for the Temping Rots Your Brain Thesis.
(b) DUDE. I want to be awesome like you! But for now I am just in awe of your morning schedule. My big downfall is def. the shower (though really, am slow and lazy at every turn). Every morning I tell myself that I have to be strict! Fast! Just shampoo, condition, wash, go! But every morning I end up standing under the spray staring at the wall for about ten minutes because it's so COLD now, and I don't WANT to go to work, etc etc.
I should just wash my hair at night. That would cut down on shower time AND hair drying time. They totally eat up my AM prep time.
My morning schedule is typically this:
6:33 - Alarm goes off. Hit snooze. 7:27 - Hit snooze for last time. Turn off alarm, stumble out of bed. 7:29 - Arrive in bathroom. Shower, brush teeth, insert contacts, go through tedious skin care ritual. 7:54 - Go back to bedroom just in time to see last few minutes of All My Children, comb hair, and look for stockings/tights (existence of functional pair of these determines rest of outfit). 7:57 - Comb hair, decide on outfit. Yell downstairs to parental units to put a Diet Pepsi in the freezer for me. Dress. 8:02 - Race downstairs, muttering obscenities as should have left TWO MINUTES AGO but HAVE NOT and WILL BE LATE, AGAIN. 8:03 - Go outside, start car. 8:04 - Run inside, apply makeup (tinted foundation/sunscreen stuff, concealer, powdery stuff to minimize shine on my MASSIVE WHITE FOREHEAD. Curl eyelashes and put on blush if I'm feeling particularly motivated). 8:08 - Dry hair 8:12 - Put producty stuff in half-dry hair and shake head upside down a lot, hope for the best. 8:13 - Run into hallway, search for shoes. Retrieve Diet Pepsi from freezer, granola bars from cabinet, put coat on. 8:14 - Inevitably realize have forgotten or misplaced something. Often I freak out over having LOST my KEYS, when actually they're outside in the car warming up. 8:17 - Roll out of driveway.
And then I stroll into work at 8:39 or so if I don't hit brutal traffic, when I'm supposed to be there at 8:30. Every morning I cringe and hate myself and am positive they're going to yell at me. Every morning I sneak my coat into the closet and slide into my chair and think Tomorrow I'm Getting Up Early, No Really, I Am but I DON'T! Why? I don't understand!
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(b) DUDE. I want to be awesome like you! But for now I am just in awe of your morning schedule. My big downfall is def. the shower (though really, am slow and lazy at every turn). Every morning I tell myself that I have to be strict! Fast! Just shampoo, condition, wash, go! But every morning I end up standing under the spray staring at the wall for about ten minutes because it's so COLD now, and I don't WANT to go to work, etc etc.
I should just wash my hair at night. That would cut down on shower time AND hair drying time. They totally eat up my AM prep time.
My morning schedule is typically this:
6:33 - Alarm goes off. Hit snooze.
7:27 - Hit snooze for last time. Turn off alarm, stumble out of bed.
7:29 - Arrive in bathroom. Shower, brush teeth, insert contacts, go through tedious skin care ritual.
7:54 - Go back to bedroom just in time to see last few minutes of All My Children, comb hair, and look for stockings/tights (existence of functional pair of these determines rest of outfit).
7:57 - Comb hair, decide on outfit. Yell downstairs to parental units to put a Diet Pepsi in the freezer for me. Dress.
8:02 - Race downstairs, muttering obscenities as should have left TWO MINUTES AGO but HAVE NOT and WILL BE LATE, AGAIN.
8:03 - Go outside, start car.
8:04 - Run inside, apply makeup (tinted foundation/sunscreen stuff, concealer, powdery stuff to minimize shine on my MASSIVE WHITE FOREHEAD. Curl eyelashes and put on blush if I'm feeling particularly motivated).
8:08 - Dry hair
8:12 - Put producty stuff in half-dry hair and shake head upside down a lot, hope for the best.
8:13 - Run into hallway, search for shoes. Retrieve Diet Pepsi from freezer, granola bars from cabinet, put coat on.
8:14 - Inevitably realize have forgotten or misplaced something. Often I freak out over having LOST my KEYS, when actually they're outside in the car warming up.
8:17 - Roll out of driveway.
And then I stroll into work at 8:39 or so if I don't hit brutal traffic, when I'm supposed to be there at 8:30. Every morning I cringe and hate myself and am positive they're going to yell at me. Every morning I sneak my coat into the closet and slide into my chair and think Tomorrow I'm Getting Up Early, No Really, I Am but I DON'T! Why? I don't understand!