Thursday, November 19, 2009

Last Christmas

You know what's a fun place? The testing center. I just can't get enough of that feeling when I walk through the front doors. The palpable anxiety...not only mine but that of 200 other students. All greasy haired, blood-shot eyed, on the verge of something real bad. I also love paying for my test. $5 can buy me 2 chicken tacos and a diet coke, but who wants that when I can have a 13 page examination on early British literature? And really, there's nothing better than the dramatic drop of my stomach when I scan the first page of said exam and have absolutely no idea what any of the questions are even attempting to ask. It's really awesome that every time I opt for the music room, they're playing the soundtrack to A Man From Snowy River. I've been at BYU since 2004. Every. Time. It's one of my favorite things when the person behind me has brought a cheese burger to snack on while filling out a scantron, after my day spent in the library eating the occasional almond hidden in my bag. And the person the row over with the cold who sniffs once every 8 seconds, loud and mucousy, so great. And even greater that I know they're sniffing once every eight seconds because I'd rather time their body's audible functions than decipher whether it was Donne or Herbert who wrote the metaphysical tetrameter couplet.

3 comments:

  1. i totally forgot about the music room. i hated that room. but i've never seen a man from snowy river so i never knew why i hated it.

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  2. How can "Jessica's theme" not uplift your test taking, no matter how many times you've heard it before? It takes me back to the time when I broke a wild colt to win the affections of a sassy young rich girl. All it took was a little back mountain love from a man like me to inspire her to play that theme with such gentle passion.

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  3. Seriously. Everything you said, seriously. It'll be over soon??

    And, have you read anything by Sarah Vowell? Todd and I listened to her book on CD, "Assassination Vacation" on our trip to IL. You sound a lot like her, to me at least, in your writing "voice".

    I hope if you have read her you like her, because I do. If you have read her and don't like her, sorry.

    See you this Christmas!!

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