ding dong, the bitch is as good as dead...

the ex finally paid off her damn car. the one with me as the primary on the loan. the one she kept neglecting to make payments on. the one GMAC has called me about every day this week because she was 60 days past due. it's finally paid off. my last tie to her is severed. now I just have to wait seven years to clear my credit history and I'll be feeling just fine.

it sucks how it takes seven years to purge an incident like that. by then I'll be completely debt free, except for the student loans (which will be paid down to a paltry $20k or so by then), and maybe we can buy a house somewhere. I'm sure by that point a large refrigerator box will only be going for about $750k in seattle. sigh.

on a more positive note, I've decided to obsess over the wii. I don't know why, as I'm not overly interested in video games. but I've decided I must have a wii. I'm hoping to wait until AFTER xmas to buy one (using xmas monies from my very generous nana), but I may break down and buy one sooner, if I can even find one. the wii sports package looks ridiculously fun, and I want to try excite truck, as "excitebike" was one of my fave games on the original NES.

I haven't been writing on here at all lately. but if it's an consolation, my nanowrimo also stalled at about 900 words. I haven't been motivated at all to touch it. to be honest, I don't feel like doing much of anything most days, I get home work and veg for a few hours before going to bed...

at least next week I get to attempt to cook a turkey. joy.

erm, yeah...

so, a couple weeks ago I wasted $30 and a saturday morning to take the mensa entrance exam. I went in with a friend of mine, and we found it amusing how seriously everyone was taking it. I figured if nothing else, it was good for a larf, and it would finally prove that I'm not as smart as people had always told me.

I was wrong. I am as smart as people always told me. I gained entrance to mensa. I can pay $52 a year for such sweet deals as meeting up with other nerds monthly to discuss smart people stuff. oh, and there's a newsletter. possible with cookie recipes done by smart people.

they didn't give me actual results for the test, mind you. all they're able to do is tell you if you pass the 98th percentile threshhold on one of the two tests you take. they can tell you that you passed, that you failed, or that you were close. I passed. I'm 98th percentile. despite all my college entrance exams being closer to 70th percentile. the last time I scored 98th percentile was elementary school. well, or in height as a kid. I was a big kid.

I don't know if I actually want to join or anything. from what I could tell, the people there are all keeners. I've never felt very smart, since I'm mostly pretty lazy. sitting around with a bunch of smart people feeling stupid isn't my idea of fun. in normal life I can feel superior with very little effort. I like the path of least resistance.

however, I did state all along that if I did qualify, I wanted to get a t-shirt that said "I'm in mensa and you're not" just to be an ass. I think I technically have to pay dues at least once to pull that one off and not feel like a schmuck.

I'm mostly disappointed, tho. I really was looking for some sort of validation of being a slacker. poop. fortunately, this will do nothing more than a minor swelling of guilt for living such a useless existence, it won't actually motivate me to change the world or nothin'....