Today I scored an 8200. After yesterday's triumph I am back down to competing with single cell organisms for a spot on Jeopardy for Dummies. My lack of knowledge on composers, author's birthplaces, and zombie movies is glaring to say the least.
I'm taking two positives away from today. First, as bad as I did at home there was a dude on the show who did worse. He was getting a bunch of answers wrong, not many right, and since he was negative at the end of double Jeopardy they didn't even let him answer the final Jeopardy question. Imagine that, you pass every test and are picked for the show. You tell all your family and friends that you're going to be on Jeopardy. Everyone tells you how smart you are and how you'll do great. Then you show up and lay such a massive sink bomb that you aren't even allowed to play Final Jeopardy. As bad as that contestant is feeling I hope he takes comfort in the fact that he made my day a little better by proving that even really smart people get smoked by this show every once in a while.
Second positive of the day, my studying rocks. I'm listening to " Don't know much about Mythology" as a book on tape. It's great because my job requires me to drive to several destinations throughout the day. I feel like I'm downloading information directly into my brain Also, I'm gaining a huge appreciation for the ancient Egyptian culture. Also, still reading the book I bought yesterday. I'm in the American Studies section and am reading biographies of famous authors, poets, and thinkers. I find the poets to be the most unbalanced and the thinkers to be the most hypocritical. I thought to be a celebrated intellectual you need to produce original thought. This is wrong, you just need to expand and previous liberal theories. Other smart folks will refuse to recognize you as a fellow smart person unless you are crazy liberal. Just a quick observation.
Anyway, That was the bad and the good. Let's hope it doesn't get ugly tomorrow.
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