Well, not RIGHT NOW... but tonight. It will be interesting to see what kind of questions are on that prelimenary test later. One of the things I'm interested about that, I'll never get an answer for, is, I wonder if its the same 50 questions for everyone thats doing it, or, its like the S.A.T.'s where they have a few different tests, or even to the extreme that each test is unique, even in that they have the same questions but in a different order, IE Question #1 for me might be someone elses Question #27.
Should be interesting. I'll make sure I write about it in the 1st entry afterwards since I'm SURE people are waiting with baited breath. Still kinda sucks that they don't tell you your results after the test is over, I would've liked to have had a definitive result as opposed to, well, I THINK I got THIS MANY out of 50 right....
I don't really think I will get a good enough score to get to the 2nd bit, which is being invited in to take a second 50 question test in person, but, my gf and her sister were saying that I should do it, and, to Jeopardy's credit, the prelimenary test, the make it easy for people like me who are concerned about weather or not they would be embarrased if they got on TV. Honestly, if you can pass the multitude of tests they have set up to actually GET to the point that your on an episode, honestly, I looked at the people who look stupid on that show differently now.
I almost WANT to get on there.... so they can be like.... An Unemployed Man from the Inland Empire who mooches off his GF and her sister.... than go on to be like.... and heres bill, a rocket scientist with a doctorate from MIT... and heres sally, she holds 2 masters is anthropology and works at the Smithsonian....
Pretty entertaining eh?!?!?!
So let me pass on a story, I seem to have forgotten that aspect of this venture, you know, writing in this Blog... while I'm... "Blogging?" Mainly I feel like I've been a whiney bitch lately, but, I guess you write what you know LOL.
Back in High School it's fair to say that I was a very good baseball player. My dad to this day seems to think if I made the effort to actually you know, go to college, I could've played in the majors. Personally, I feel I was exceptional, but, the majors? HIGHLY doubtful. Thinking of people who played in the Majors when I would've, I don't think I would've had the balls to get in a batters box against the likes of Randy Johnson or Mitch Williams, you know, people who had little or not control over 100+ MPH baseballs being thrown near my face. Not that I was scared to be hit mind you, but, I don't see myself in front of 60k people trying to get a hit off the big unit. That being said, after HS, I did play Semi-Pro ball for 4 years. I played in leagues that weren't scouted or whatever, I say Semi-Pro, cause, they weren't weekend warrior type leagues, but NOT "professional"... And in these leagues I played with some people, please don't ask me to name names, cause, honestly, I don't remember, and none of these people went on to be anything of note ANYWAYS, but, I played with some people who were either playing, played, or on their way to playing professional minor league baseball. Like I said, none of these people never MADE anything of themselves, IE... OH I played against Derek Jeter when no one knew whom he was.... But, I still played with people who wound up getting paid money to play baseball, and I feel I held my own very well.
Now, after getting off on that tangent, which, why its germaine to whatever IDK, but, back in HS, I played baseball. My Sr. year, I had the least amount of classes I could POSSIBLY take. This day and age, you can't do shit in HS like drop subjects, back when I was in HS, after you took your 2 years of Math and Science, you weren't REQUIRED to take them... So, my Sr year, I dropped Math and Science, and, the 2nd half of the school year, I was going in for third period, and didn't have a 9th... but since baseball was on, getting to leave school at 2pm or so wasn't that cool of a thing cause, I had practice at 330 everyday. After baseball ended was prolly some of the best days of HS for me... I was getting to school for 945 and leaving at 2. I hated my HS... not so much the HS Era TIMES, but, I HATED my HS. It was filled with fucking assholes and douchebags mostly. Did my best to just blend in and only talk to my friends, because watching people and how they acted always made me sick... heres a side story....
This guy named Tim who was a year older than me in my HS, was BMOC, you know, Big Man On Campus. Sports hero. Real cocky arrogant, A-typical "jock" you hear about in those movies. Like Peter Facinelli in Can't Hardly Wait is the one example on the top of my head. Anyways, you know the type, real bully... there is a scene in the TV Show Freaks and Geeks where the A/V teachers explains how the a-typical HS jock "PEAKS" in HS... he goes to college where hes a failure... he graduates... hes a failure... than hes pumping your gas while your rich.... back to this story, Tim was ALL THAT and more. NO ONE really liked Tim, and, whats funny, I went to a TINY HS, Tim was mediocre at everything he did. IE he was TRYING to be the "Super jock" he thought he was but, what he didn't know was how EVERYONE in school didn't think he was a loser, but KNEW he was a loser. I know when I played baseball with my my Jr year, when he was a Sr, EVERYONE on the team laughed at him behind his back, cause he thought he was superman, but his .210 batting average and the fact he made an EXTREME amount of errors told the REAL story.... When I inquired about this, all I ever got was... well, you don't PLAY football, your in the band, so, you watch the 1st half of every home football game, Tim is a joke, everyone knows it, and if you watched the games, you would too... Same with my friends who played basketball, my grade had some great basketball players, guys good enough to play and excell in college, but the best player in the school was a grade below us, this gay kid Dave, and, I happened to be friends with one of the guys in my grade who was excellent, we used to play one on one, my friend Rob used to beat me like 100-5, which isn't saying much since, well, I SUCKED at basketball LOL... but he always used to talk about during my jr year when we'd hang out that if Tim didn't SUCK, and passed the ball instead of missing pretty much every shot he took, they would've done better than they had....
So, you get the correlation here... Tim's World vs Reality.
SO, back to Tim. Tim was the a-typical example of a HS Jock, but, one who wasn't ACTUALLY skilled at sports. Now, what makes Tim WAY more pathetic than OTHER HS jocks? He NEVER LEFT my HS. When I say this, I LITERALLY mean, my HS was 7-12th grades, so from the time Tim was in 7th grade (age 12?) till THIS DAY... he hasn't gone ONE DAY without being at the HS i graduated from. Tim is now 37. thats 25 YEARS living his "HIGH SCHOOL" Glory... why? cause he would be a FAILURE if he actually had to go away from my small little home town.
Now, I know what your saying... huh? How could Tim do this??!?!?
Let me explain.
When I was a Jr. and Tim was a Sr, Tim's Girlfriend was a SOPHOMORE. Nice girl actually, she was a bit slutty, she kinda would fuck anyone, but, regardless, she was a REAL nice girl. Tim treated her like you would expect a BMOC to treat her. I had her in one of my classes, and I used to over hear her telling her friend who sat behind me about how much of a dick Tim was and how badly Tim treated her. I didn't "Get" why she stayed with him if he was a dick till WAY later in life.... Anyways, Tim was a Sr dating a Soph. Tim proceeded to graduate. Tim, if you haven't figured this out yet, stayed LOCAL for college. So, my SR year, Tim's Freshman year in college, his GF's now JR year in HS, Tim was at my HS everyday to pick up his gf. I graduated, but still had some very good friends, that I'm still friends with to this day, still in the HS. I didn't see them as much as you would imagine after I graduated since I was going to college now. I stayed local cause, honestly, I had NO intention to even GO to college, but, I went to appease my mom and dad, in hindsight, and I always tell my mom and dad this, I WISH I would've TRIED, cause, in HS i NEVER got higher than a 67 in English, my 1st year in college, I had an AWESOME teacher, and wound up with an A... after THAT I was CONVINCED that it wasn't ME who was stupid, but just that the teachers were HORRIBLE... I shouldv'e realized that during my Jr year when my english teacher spent the FULL YEAR doing "Hamlet"... anyways, back to Tim... I still had friends, I'd run into them everyonce in a while when I was out and a bout, and one day I proceeded to inquire, in a joking manner weather or not Tim was STILL dating his GF and if he was at the HS everyday picking her up....
What do you think my response was?
In a serious manner...."How did you know?"
I laughed and was like, well, what's Tim gonna do NEXT YEAR, shes a Sr now, and, he MIGHT actually have to face the fact hes a fucking loser at college, he went from being "Super jock" to NOT playing any sports in college, cause, well, he DID actually suck, he MIGHT actually have to face the fact he can't be the BMOC at a HS forever.
So, years went by, I went about my life, I moved out of my small town for 3 years, to which was AWESOME, didn't really see too many people around. Started working for the heartless drug chain, to which I started seeing a bunch of people I went to HS with... at this point, you would think I was embaressed about working a shitty job and seeing these people... normally I'd say you were right, but what I had going for me? I looked COMPLETELY different... shaved head, goatee... people who I went to HS with would come in and ask...Don't I know you? Didn't we go to JS together? To which Id'd reply, no, I'm not from around here, and would say I went to the HS and lived in the area my than GF did... The only people who KNEW me, even tho I looked 100% different, are people I realized later were ACTUALLY my friends..... So, people that recognized me, we'd chat for a few minutes while I checked them out, or, I'd take a few minutes and helped them shop. It was nice.
One day I had it in my head to ask about Tim..... It turns out that when his GF graduated, sometime AFTER the prom, and, BEFORE the start of the NEXT school semester, Tim broke up with his NOW GRADUATED GF.... and started dating... a girl from our HS that was starting her JUNIOR YEAR... So Tim, now a Junior at a local college... was dating a Junior in HS.... and wouldn't you know it? Tim would go back to the HS EVERYDAY to pick her up....
Tim proceeded to date her while they were both juinors in HS and college respectivly, than when they were SENIORS in college and HS RESPECTIVLY.....but NOW.... what was Tim to do... his current GF was graduating... Tim was SHIT out of luck trying to find yet ANOTHER girl at the HS to date because, well, being 22 now, and, HIS juniors being 15-16... that would almost make Tim look like a Pedo....
So, what does Tim proceed to do?
Oh yes... applying for, and GETTING a teaching position at the HS... This I found out because we wound up hiring a kid who went to my HS but was WAY younger than me... He told me MANY stories about Tim, and said, he was a huge asshole who did things like... put on pads in football practice, YES, Tim NOT ONLY was TEACHING AT THE HS, BUT Tim was COACHING SPORTS.... but he'd put on PADS... and PLAY and SCRIMMAGE with the HS students in practice... Tim, in his mid twenties, running around in FULL PADS, playing Football with the HS kids during practice....
But I heard many stories like this about Tim from this kid I worked with, and, was honestly amazed that Tim proceeded to NEVER be able to let go of HS and being the BMOC.... how pathetic is a person who does that?
tim to THIS DAY, still works at the HS. Prolly not realizing that even the kids there NOW think hes as big a fucking joke as the people who WENT to high school with him 20-25 years prior....
The sadest part of this story tho is, Tim married that 2nd girl, has kids with her. I wonder if she ever realized how she was used to get Tim those 2 years of glory.... whats even SADDER... Tim was allowed to reproduce. Tim was a fucking scumbag NO ONE liked. It's amazing to me that someone can be SO BLIND to the truth, and someone can be SO PATHETIC that at 37 they are STILL trying (and succeding) in living up their days gone by.
This kinda went on and on, and I didn't get to tell my story about chucking up a full box of Mac and Cheese under the gym bleechers one day during indoor baseball practice... But its important to share stories about people like Tim... WHY?
Cause people like me in HS weren't INFORMED of how pathetic people like Tim are. Maybe the smart kids KNEW, maybe the outsider kids KNEW... but I didn't know that people like Tim, their life PEAKS in HS... and they proceed to do WHATEVER THEY CAN the rest of their lives to spend each and everyday TRYING their best to RELIVE those days... Tim found a way to do it. And that to ME is way more pathetic than the HS Jock who DOES get that moment in life where he realizes hes pathetic, u know, that day where their pumping the gas into a nerd they beat up in HS's Rolls Royce.... They "GET" how pathetic they and their existance is. Tim will NEVER "GET" that, and, thats just sad....
Anyways, off to walk Holly LOL...
