Not bad

Everything’s coming up Milhouse. This was already a good week. The presentation went well at work and work became permanent. I’m still very excited about that. Before I started my contract in May I signed up to take the GRE. The idea is to go to grad school for materials science. UT has a really cool materials science institute that is multidisciplinary and has faculty from all over the university in it. They’ve done some awesome nanotech work and I’d like to learn more about that. Anyway, I digress. Step 1 in going back to school is to take the GRE which I did today. The GRE these days has a writing component, a multiple choice verbal component and a multiple choice quantitative component. Since they have human beings score the writing I won’t hear back on that for a couple of weeks but they give you the scores on the multiple choice bits after you’ve finished the test. The score range for each is 200 to 800. I got 730 verbal and 800 quantitative which is about as good as I think I can expect. I’m really happy about the 800 quant. Those scores are better than I did on the SAT back in the day. I don’t think I knocked the writing out of the park but I managed to avoid drooling on the keyboard so I’ve got that going for me.

Of course, if I actually get accepted to grad school then I will have a hard decision to make but it’s better to have the decision to make yourself than not. I think I owe myself something nice. I may go wander around the Crate and Barrel and look at all of the pretty furniture I don’t need and then go to the arts at the Blanton this evening. Tomorrow to celebrate the independence of my country from the rule of the hated English I will clean the kitchen and mow the lawn. If I’m feeling especially patriotic I may clean the bathroom too.

Huzzah!