Teacher, My Brain Hurts
So last week I hear that Microsoft is allowing people to take their beta Windows 2003 Server and Designing and Windows 2003 Infrastructure combination beta test and I think "What the heck? It's free. What have I got to lose?"
So I signed up, which of course immediately stressed me out since:
1. I have not even USED Windows 2003 yet (although I have done a little reading on it, and I know Windows 2000 quite well and it's not THAT different).
and
2. I literally had NO time to study as I had a class this week and I signed up on Sunday.
plus
3. I get so stressed before certification tests (I have taken six of them) that I'm a basket case. I literally get more stressed out about a stupid certification test than I did before I went in for major surgery. Talk about your test anxiety!
So all week I've been "Should I take it? Should I not? Should? Shouldn't? Yes, I will...no wait, no I won't." I literally did not know until I drove TO the place if I was going to take it or not.
So I go in, decide I'll do it and fill out all my paperwork, sit down, start the test which is going to be case study based. They tell me all this stuff about a company who wants to move from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2003, basically, and then ask me a series of questions. Cool. Except, there is no case studies...just questions.
To make a long story short (too late)...the test was messed up.
It took them AN HOUR to figure it out. I should say that the people at the place were very nice and it was NOT their fault, it was a faulty module downloaded from Prometric.
I should also say, gentle reader, that this is a FREAKING FOUR HOUR TEST...so adding an hour to this ordeal was not fun. But again, I should say as well that they people very very nice, very cool. I liked them a lot. I wonder what they pay their instructors?
But I digress.
So finally I go in and take the test.
*whimper*
My brain is mush. I think about case study number four it started throbbing. By the middle of case study five it started leaking out my ear. When I clicked "finished" on case study six my IQ had dropped a full 100 points.
*whimper*
It was HARD and I fully expect I failed it. There, I am saying that publically. I think I failed a certification test. They won't tell me for eight weeks. Anyone who actually knows me knows how hard it is to say out loud...well, in bits, that I may actually have failed a test.
*whimper*
Do I get activity points for brain overload?
It took me three hours to turn from a perfectly normal functioning member of society into a blithering, drooling neanderthal.
Went out to Alfy's for all you can eat salad bar. Since none of my four hour tests have ever taken over an hour, I did not eat something before going it. It was now nearly seven hours since my last meal and I was ready to gnaw the knobs off the radio. Chowed on salad then came home and went to the Y where I had a HECK of a workout!
I guess I felt the need to regain my winning attitude 'cause I kind of left the testing center feeling like a big fat loser. I ran two miles for the first time ever in my entire life without stopping, not even once, and it wasn't even a jog, it was a run, and I used to hate to run, hate hate hate, and in PE when I was a kid I never ran, except this once because I really liked Mr. Wilson and wanted to make him proud because another PE teacher that I didn't like had said that his class was full of lazy slobs, so I ran for the first and only time as a kid, the entire mile, and I ran it in ten minutes, which may not sound like much to Jim Fixx, but what does he know he's not with us any more, but to me it was a lot and then I threw up. (Yes, I am feeling as manic as that sentence reads.)
I ran two miles! I ran two miles! I ran two miles!
I also lifted weights for 30 minutes, and like a good little exerciser, cooled down for five after my run, and I did Curves this morning, and 250 crunches when all was said and done.
WHEW! What a day!
