It has been a long time, hasn't it?

My apologies, dear friends. I have been lax with both posting new and exciting posts to my blog, as well as posting comments to my friends' blogs. But I have a good excuse: I've been busy. "Too busy for friends?", you ask.... and my reply is- yes. Too busy even for friends. Well.... maybe not - but hey- you know I love you.

Lets get down to business. What has gone on in the last 2 weeks.... Um.... I went to a baseball game. And it was awesome. I don't even care about baseball, and it was awesome. See husband and wifes blog for a brief video of me dancing. Yes, dancing. With my camera.

Anywho- I've been busy because I've been studying to retake the GMAT. I did that on Wednesday, and although I only wanted to improve my writing score (which I won't know about for another week or 2), I happened to also improve my overall score: I went from a 670 to a 710! That puts me in the 94th percentile of all GMAT takers! (It is also a better score than the average GMAT of any school in the country- except UPenn, who's students average a 711) Hooray! I also have my letters of recommendation being written for me.... so now I just need to fill out all the applications and write my essays....and pay the application fees.

Work has been really busy - the students have come back to school, and are already breaking things. (Really frustrating.) Although, whats more frustrating, is that they don't tell me about it until a week or two after its happend.... so I'll end up having one of these conversations:

Me: why don't you guys take that equipment downstairs with 2 carts?
Them: because the other cart is broken.
Me: What? How?
Them: One of the wheels keeps coming off.
Me (As I investigate the other cart): When did that happen?
Them: Oh, about 2 weeks ago.
Me: Well, this seems to be missing its internal washer and cotter-pin.... do you guys know where those are?
Them: we saw the washer thing last week, but I haven't seen it since then. The pin has been missing- thats how it broke in the first place.
Me: Why didn't you guys tell me about it when it happened?
Them: Oh, I just thought you knew.
Me:

I had 3 of those conversations about different pieces of equipment in the same day this week. I was so frustrated. I mean- I can get this stuff fixed, I can order new parts, I can repair/resolder/rebuild a lot of the things that we use.... but NOT UNLESS SOMEONE SAYS SOMETHING!!! (And does so before they break it even further). Dumbasses.

Anywho, I'm psyched about the GMAT score - more confident than ever that I'll get into most of my schools that I'm applying to, and overall, just ready to NEVER STUDY FOR THAT EVIL TEST EVER AGAIN. :)