The acid\/base test came back today. My 134 minutes of work got me 153 points out of 210. I haven’t gotten a grade like that since Calculus. <\/p>\n
The rest of the period was sent in mourning and we didn’t get much done. I, while balanced precariously on the back rest of a seat, managed to fall backwards on the desk behind me, taking both chairs down with me in a big pile while everyone idly stood by. (Neal said I looked like I could handle it.) This is not surprising. Any time I receive a disappointing test grade is usually accompanied by an instance of me being physically harmed. Like that time I cracker failed a Calc test was followed my Tyrcha nearly crippling my calculator hand with one of his 40-mph floor hockey shots. And I must have done badly on some test during the entire time we played Lacrosse which was just one big 4-week-long bruise to me. Somewhere, there’s a voodoo doll of me that is vulnerable to low test scores.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, on the same test, Neal has blown away Juny’s score and has been suspiciously good at chem ever since he got sick. Then I got sick and my performance has dropped off somewhat. Neal, you ever see that episode of Smallville where Clark gets struck by lightning while rescuing some dude from falling off a dam and his powers get transferred to the guy? Probably not. I guess the point I’m trying to make is: <\/p>\n
How did you do it? <\/strong> Witchcraft? Deal with Satan? Moon sapphires? I want my powers back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The acid\/base test came back today. My 134 minutes of work got me 153 points out of 210. I haven’t gotten a grade like that since Calculus. The rest of the period was sent in mourning and we didn’t get much done. I, while balanced precariously on the back rest of a seat, managed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3712,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/3712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}