Never cease to amaze myself

So a few weeks ago I has a take home exam in Genetics class. I got hung up on this one question early on and the way that my brain works is that it cannot move on until the problem is resolved. I worked on this for 2 and 1/2 days before I finally solved it by which time the deadline was upon me and I had cried, thrown a fit, and some other things I am not proud of (Laticia can testify). But!! I solved the problem and had one day to finish the other 4 or 5 questions which I had almost completely ignored up til them. I say almost because I did try to work on them but my mind kept drifting to the unsolvable one. I felt that some data was missing but I was afraid to email my teacher just in case it was all there and I ended up looking clueless. Anyway, there was this other question which I finally got around to a few hours before the exam was due. I had some trouble with it and at one point I even considered not doing it at all and just submitting the exam minus that question. There was yet another that I was fairly confident about...as it was (I thought) rather straightforward.

Well  my good folks, as it turns out, I earned full credit for the one that I had planned to leave out and messed up on the one I thought was flawless (careless mistakes which I could have identified had I read over it). I also did better overall than I anticipated. So the moral of the story is... 1) Never give up and 2) things are not always as they appear to be. <---- not exactly but you get the point.

And update: I had lunch with the Lady from church and it wasn't that bad. There were a few awkward moments. I'm still getting used to the idea of almost 100% of all conversation topics being religious. I feel bad saying it but I just feel that sometimes, there can be other stuff to talk about which need not have spiritual overtones. I am happy about my faith and I recognize my growth based on my thought process but sometimes I would like to be able to not  feel it necessary for EVERYTHING to have a spiritual overtone..undertones I can deal with. But I guess thats a knock on me and not her.

Anyway, Toodles!!!

Dee

P.S. (lol) This does nothing to help me deal with my inner demon called procrastination seeing as I did rather well skimming the deadline. Just saying.