Archives for January 2005
I am Nerd King!
It ain’t scarlet, and it ain’t no “A”
Well, apparently grades have begun to trickle in, because I just got an IM from a classmate, “Did you see? Crim grades are posted!”
So I went up to check, and viola! Bitter disappointment! Hooray!!
I am so glad I skipped town right after finals and hadn’t thought about them until now. Otherwise, I’d be a basket case.
What sucks is that I really, truly felt that I was prepared for this round. I did the practice tests. I wrote my own outline. I was pretty confident I knew the material. And then bam! I am starring at one of the worst grades of my academic career.
I know, it has to happen at some point, but I was still not ready for the shock. Granted, it’s only in one class, and it’s not enough to put me on academic probation or anything, but it is enough to make the law school experience, shall we say, less pleasant?
I’ve decided I’m not playing any silly law school games. When people ask how I did, I am candid: “Not very well.” If they press, I’ll reveal the actual letter… I feel like it’s already branded on me like a scarlet “A”. Well, not an A, exactly…
What’s most upsetting is that I actually enjoyed the class. I kept up with the readings and I thought I had a good handle on the material. I studied. As one of those over-achieving assholes who always did well in school without really trying, I decided law school would be different. I applied myself. And the reward I got was a lousy grade!
So, should I go back to my slacker ways? I think I could do this well with a lot less work. Or should I chalk it up to experience and the fact that I’m still learning exactly what law professors are looking for in an exam? Or should I write it off as one bad test, hardly an estimation of my self-worth, or even my (potential) ability within the practice of law? I dunno. I suppose I should wait and see if this one grade was an anomaly, or an indication of a bad semester.
Sigh.
Would you like to put your penis on a diet and play some poker?
I’m not sure where I went wrong. Maybe it was my choice of titles for the blog… “Preaching to the Perverted” does sound like some kind of weirdo porn site these days, I guess. It’s actually a reference to a PWEI song.
Maybe it’s the fact that when I was visiting my brother in Japan, we were asked to take an “English Tourist” survey at Nijo-jo by the Hachigaok Jr. High English Club, and I foolishly took their picture and posted it on my site. Now, the most common search bringing people to my personal web site is “japanese school girl”. Of course, it fluctuates. Last month it was “atheist” because of this photo.
Whatever the reason, I’ve apparently been targeted as a compulsive dieter with a small penis and an addiction to Texas hold ’em. There must really be something to spam because anyone who knows me can tell you that description is dead-on.
So recently, in between hands of poker and poping diet pills while applying for a super-low rate second mortgage, I decided to add a CAPTCHA test for comment submissions. Not because I want to stop you, gentle reader, from taking advantage of these great offers people have been posting to my site, oh no! I want you to get your diet pills, card games, sexual enhancement devices, porn, mortgages, car loans, etc. I just want my cut of the action, like Evan.
And it did work… for about two days. The CAPTCHA test cut my daily comment spam down from 25-30 per day (yes, you read that correctly) to zero.
Alas, all good things must come to an end… and I came in today to find that I’ve already received 15 spam trackback pings today.
*sigh*