Testing, 1,2,3.

I just recently went out of commission as far as life goes. I took the ACT. It wasn't hard, except that I'm really terrible at math, so I spent days and days studying for that one section. When I actually got inside the test center and started the test I did better than I thought. Of course, I aced the English portion without even studying for it, did okay on the Science, and I think I was fine on the math. After all that studying, it was so much easier than I thought it would be. Math usually trips me up so badly.

There was a kid sitting next to me who, during the English portion, shook his head sadly and then filled in "D" for every answer. Now, that's just fucking pathetic.

I was rooting through scholarship offers online the other day and saw an ad for a $5,000 award. It was called the "Writers of the Future" and was for SciFi, Fantasy, Horror, or Speculative Fiction short stories or novellas. Now, none of these fit my writing style, but I figured I could pull something out of my ass and give it a shot for that kind of money. Then I clicked on the website link and found out it was called, more specifically "L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future award" and quickly closed it. I don't care if the money is good, scientologists freak me out and I don't want them knowing who I am and where I live.

I also found another scholarship for some other large sum of money. In it, applicants compose a short piece of fiction or nonfiction involving characters who are vulnerable to AIDS. I figured...well, that's vague. Maybe I can write something fucked up about a bug-chaser and see if they pay me to be morbid.

What say you?