Ramblings of a Technology Addict

Wednesday, July 2, 2003

So Wrong, But So Right...

Bubba Ho-Tep.
Bruce Campbell's new movie.
Synopsis from the website:
Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by acclaimed author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death", then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds...

So Wrong, yet So Right.
11:51:52 AM comment []

Failing the Foreign Service Exam...

A few months back, I took the Foreign Service Exam. It was a hard test, but for the most part, I thought I did really well. Apparently, I did not do well. I failed.
But what's most irking is the total lack of feedback regarding the exam. The rejection letter just says "Regretfully, your score on the written examination was not high enough for you to proceed." I don't know if they didn't like my essay, or if I scored so low on the English section that I should be enrolling in a remedial grammar class, or if my density when it comes to popular culture and current events is such that I couldn't answer the questions on Dog Eat Dog.
There's always next year, I guess.
But I still feel like crap.
10:07:46 AM comment []