G-R-E is half way to spelling "Greedy" (and 1/5th of the way to spelling "greenhouse effect")

You know, it's funny: I got a National Merit award after taking the SAT completely unprepared and on 2 hours' sleep the morning after smoking copious amounts of various intoxicating plantlife (sorry, Mom, but really, society's assertion that doing such things would turn me into a basement-dwelling sociopath mere minutes from going bananas and running over a little girl or throwing myself through my...basement window...was effectively countered that day and many afterward). And just now, I took a "diagnostic" GRE test sent to me by the wonderful people at ETS and got a 1450. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?!?!?

Am I a freak of nature? An asshole? A robot designed by the Polish government and unleashed upon the unwitting U.S. public to prove that even my people could stomp all over their standardized testing? I don't understand why I do so well on these things and, frankly, it disturbs me. I fear it means I have a hyper-orderly mind, which is in direct contrast to my view of myself as scatterbrained and rebellious.

I realize that it's silly to let this bother me, and it doesn't especially; it just weirds me out a little. What's kind of amusing about this whole thing is that, even if I do get a perfect score, it will have absolutely no impact on whether or not I'm admitted into any of the programs to which I'm applying. None. It's just one of those arbitrary requirements posed by some of the university admissions committees, not even reviewed unless the CW department selects you for admission. If only GRE scores translated into writing talent. (Stage direction: sighing, heroine looks dramatically out her bedroom window where an errant sunbeam strikes a bluebird as it launches into flight. "St. Elmo's Fire" plays in the background.)

So, that's that. And, in honor of the GRE:

Yesterday, I:

a) Wrote a poem I actually liked for the first time in weeks.
b) Got into a heated online discussion about the relative merits of Rilke.
c) Ate a banana, determined to use the phrase "to go bananas" in next blog post (see above.)
d) All of the above.
e) None of the above.