The World's GREatest

Long story short: They mixed my scores up somehow. When I got to the results thing, the guy told me that he didn't have my name under the GRE scores, but I was under the GMATs. The GMATs are some sort of math test...that I did not take. I can't even understand this situation because I wasn't even in the same room as the GMAT people; I was in the GRE and MCAT room. And to make matters worse: they didn't just mix up my score sheet with a different answer key, they must have misplaced my answer booklet altogether.

When I take multiple choice tests, I don't leave answers blank at all. My guessing skills aren't so great, but it never hurts to try if you don't know. So I didn't leave any answers blank on the GRE. Meanwhile, when I get my scores back, it was telling me that I left like 11 blank on the quantitative part and 9 blank on the verbal. FALSE.

Anyway, I made my complaint and told him that I took the GREs and didn't leave anything blank. He remembered me and my friend Naomii vouched for me too, and the guy said that someone must have input the wrong code when doing my answer booklet. I don't buy it, but he took my score sheet and said they'd sort it out.

"My" score was a 370 though. If they had been my actual answers, I would be somewhat impressed that I managed THAT on a test that I had no business taking. But that's not the case, so I'm not impressed.

On a much sadder note: I just found out around an hour ago that my grandma has leukemia. It's not acute, so that's not a death sentence, apparently. I don't know much about leukemia, but the only experiences I've had with it were pretty serious. To the one person that reads this blog: You remember Skye, right? She's younger than us and she had acute leukemia, and she was really sick for a while. I guess a lot of people thought she was going to die. Thankfully, a lot of people prayed for her and her leukemia went into remission. We haven't lived in Donora for almost 3 years now, so I can only guess how she's doing these days. Anyway, my other experience with leukemia has been watching someone who has it on "Real Housewives of Orange County." One of the housewives has a fiancee that has had acute leukemia for around nine months. I missed the last four episodes, but my mom told me that he's looking really bad and, when I was able to catch it on TV, he was in ICU and wasn't doing so well. At the time I was watching it with my mom and I asked what acute leukemia was. I told her that "acute" sounded like something that wasn't so severe, but she informed me that something that is acute is actually very bad and that Jeff, the fiancee on the show, was most likely going to die. I was sad when she told me that because Jeff is a really nice guy on the show and I, like most people, feel bad when nice people are put in unfortunate circumstances.

Anyway, I'm kind of used to people in my family having some type of illness, but I don't know what to do now. There's nothing I can do, really, but I don't know how to cope right now. I wanted to call her after I got off the phone with my mom, but I keep tearing up at the thought of hearing her voice. And I don't want to send her a text: "Hey, I heard you have leukemia. Get well soon. I love you." That's so impersonal. But I still can't bear to talk to her right now. She's coming here next week to tell my uncle and his family, who live in Philadelphia, so I'll get to see her then.

My mom told me that everyone at the house, including my grandma, is in good spirits. Apparently, they've been making jokes about it. I've made a few, but I'm still sad. I understand that her life isn't in immediate danger, but I still feel some type of way. Eh...I'm rambling. I'm gonna post this and get something to eat and do some thinking.