Saturday Studying

Since I'm on my 3rd week of bein unemployed I had two options for this lovely Saturday.
1. Relax by the pool and attempt to gain some color while the neighborhood kids scream and splash or
2. Get to studying my PRAXIS material
Being that I am a big nerd as of late, I chose #2. I got a pretty good study book that outlines everything to have you ready in 7 weeks. Today, I took the 1st sample test in the book. It says to replicate the test environment as best as possible so I crated the furkids and set the timer for 2 hours. And Holy Lord Jesus, this is gonna be harder than I thought. I'm Early Childhood (Pre K-3rd) and I want to teach either Pre K or Kindergarten. "Everybody sit on the carpet while Miss M reads a story" and "ok kids lets color our farm animal color sheets before nap time" is right up my alley. This freakin test asks all kinds of crap about what year the Magna Carta was signed, tons of geography and plate techtonic crap, and the math portion has equations on it. I spent the entire 2 hours randomly yelling, " This #(@*%$*#(@ question is crap" "I don't $&%*$ know, and #%*$ the PRAXIS. I'm pretty sure that's not allowed during the actual test. I feel like I got knocked down a couple of notches. I have a B.S. so I know I'm not stupid but for Christ's sake, how can I teach when I don't know the answers? And since when to Kindergarteners learn plate techtonics?

After pitching my small fit, I decided to make a pot of coffee (at 6 in the evening no less). So as I sit here typing this, higher than a kite from all the caffeine and sugar I start to realize I've been on haitus from the gym for 3 weeks. I did spend a week in Houston so we're just gonna count 2 weeks I've been gone. I was doing so well and then everything just went to hell in a handbasket. So, Monday I will be bringing my somewhat larger ass back there.