I volunteered to take some papers to the Main building this afternoon. None of our student workers are around and I was copying files from one PC to another. My mind wasn't being taxed too heavily. So, I volunteered. For some reason, I remembered to take my iPod with me. I never remember to take it until I'm already half-way to my destination. Today, though. Ha! And, boy was I glad! As I got going, "Come" by Fleetwood Mac started playing. Now that is a good song to walk around to. I got to the Tower in near record time. Then, while wandering around trying to find the office I needed, I listened to "What Did I Do" by Nathan McEuen. Gail sent me a CD sampler she bought at a house concert he did. Good song. And, kind of appropriate for someone wandering around a big building. I thought I knew where I was going but once I walked up four flights of stairs only to find the wrong offices, I was not too happy. So, back down...then up the other side. Sigh. Then, "Like a Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan was playing as I started back. And, for some reason I remembered Joyce Dougherty...who I knew in high school. She also went to UT. We ran into each other right there by the Tower a couple of times my Freshman year...back in 1981. Wow. I hadn't thought about her in ages. And, she just popped into my head. I've walked past that area of campus plenty of times without harking back to the dark ages. Dunno why it hit me today. Was it Dylan? Heh. And, then, as I got close to the office: "I Want to be Your Girlfriend" by Mary Chapin Carpenter which just makes me smile. No matter what I'm doing.
Later on, I took the How Smart am I? test and got 25 of 25 questions correct. Which supposedly makes me smarter than 98.93% of the rest of the people who took the test. I don't think that's really true, though. It just means I did better than 98.93% of the people who took the test. Surely there are plenty of people smarter than me who took the test and got a question or two (or more) wrong. Doncha think?
Update (May 16). I got a note from my mom saying she'd taken the test so I thought I'd take it again...just to see if I would still score 25/25 or if I'd lost some of my gray matter (no doubt that is happening). And, I did score another 25/25. But, my percentage score went up to 99.23%. Hmmmm...
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