{"id":128,"date":"2003-11-15T18:49:59","date_gmt":"2003-11-16T00:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2003-11-15T18:49:59","modified_gmt":"2003-11-16T00:49:59","slug":"exam-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Exam Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boo hoo!\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m still getting over that dreadful exam that I had to take.\u00c2\u00a0 Did I mention that I hate Macro?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I do.<\/p>\n<p>Brian took me to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bodyinkandsteel.com\/\"  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#000000\">Body Ink and Steel<\/font><\/a> on Tuesday, Veteran&#8217;s Day holiday.\u00c2\u00a0 We had Dan cover up my old tattoo.\u00c2\u00a0 It was soo painful!\u00c2\u00a0 My first one didn&#8217;t hurt at all.\u00c2\u00a0 This was extreme torture.\u00c2\u00a0 Either that or I&#8217;ve forgotten how painful the first one was because it&#8217;s been over eight years.\u00c2\u00a0 Or it could be that I was younger and tougher then.\u00c2\u00a0 Or perhaps Brian has spoiled me so much that I&#8217;ve turned into a cry-baby-wuss.\u00c2\u00a0 Either way it sucked.<\/p>\n<p>The process was arduous but the end result was great.\u00c2\u00a0 Brian says it&#8217;s awesome.\u00c2\u00a0 Most people say they can&#8217;t see the original tattoo underneath the new one.\u00c2\u00a0 Jen and I can still kind of see it but someone who doesn&#8217;t know what the original one looks like would have a truly difficult time.\u00c2\u00a0 And yes, I&#8217;ve verified this.\u00c2\u00a0 Dan does an amazing job with cover ups.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, woke up Wednesday and didn&#8217;t feel like taking a shower.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, I am a wuss.\u00c2\u00a0 Besides, I wasn&#8217;t feeling too good anyhow.\u00c2\u00a0 So I ended up missing school and work.\u00c2\u00a0 I was thinking this is great!\u00c2\u00a0 I can use the time to study for my Macro exam.<\/p>\n<p>I read my chapters and then took the online quizzes.\u00c2\u00a0 Aced them.\u00c2\u00a0 At this point I was feeling pretty good.\u00c2\u00a0 I was like totally confident going into the exam on Thursday.\u00c2\u00a0 But, lo and behold, the exam was nothing like the online quizzes.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d be lucky to pass it.\u00c2\u00a0 What a nightmare!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s shopping spree with Jen made me feel a little better though.\u00c2\u00a0 But I&#8217;m still ticked off that I could potentially drop down to a B in this class.\u00c2\u00a0 My goal for this semester was straight A&#8217;s.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope I can hang in there!<\/p>\n<p>Tonight Brian and I are having dinner at my favorite place, Red Rock Canyon Grill.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m so excited!\u00c2\u00a0 I know exactly what I want: house salad with adobe (I don&#8217;t know why they call it that, but it&#8217;s super yummy) dressing and crab cakes.\u00c2\u00a0 Yum, yum!\u00c2\u00a0 Then we are going to see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loveactually.com\/\"  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#000000\">Love Actually<\/font><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Fun, fun!<\/p>\n<p>But when all is said and done, I&#8217;ve still got that crappy exam grade to look forward to next week.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully I&#8217;ll get lucky.\u00c2\u00a0 Cross your fingers.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boo hoo!\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m still getting over that dreadful exam that I had to take.\u00c2\u00a0 Did I mention that I hate Macro?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I do. Brian took me to Body Ink and Steel on Tuesday, Veteran&#8217;s Day holiday.\u00c2\u00a0 We had Dan cover up my old tattoo.\u00c2\u00a0 It was soo painful!\u00c2\u00a0 My first one didn&#8217;t hurt at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}