smart

i'm pretty good at those "word power" quizzes in reader's digest, the utah grid system makes perfect sense to me, i can count to 84 leaving out all the multiples of 7 and numbers with a 7 in them, and i'm really good at "cranium".
which is why i feel like i can tell people that i'm smart.
not freaky intelligent. just smart.
when i'm sleep deprived? ya, it all goes away. all of it. the vocabulary, the numbers, the ability to cope in the real world... gone.
and suddenly eating curry four meals in a row seems valid.
taking an hour to find american fork seems valid.
watching "the 'burbs" seems valid.

and all the well rested people of the world seem... well... psychic.

Comments

Erika said…
watching the burbs is ALWAYS valid.
Jena said…
smart is a rather relative term
Leah said…
yesterday my boss was talking to me for probably 3 minutes before my mind caught up. she looked at me funny and i said, "i'm never filling in or working 12 hour days ever again."
Jay said…
I am so smart, S-M-R-T !!!
Em said…
I'm not smart. It takes me an hour to get anywhere, I don't even know what "The Burbs" is, curry always seems like a good idea to me and I always feel like everybody else is getting information from a source I'm unable to tap. Crap.
Ann-Marie said…
blah blah blah i'm not smart. i'm em and i just got a 4.0 and also got excellent grades while living with a psycho. but i'm not smart. blah blah blah! :)
Nama said…
at least you still have your looks.
Leah said…
Amen to that.
Ann-Marie said…
you have your looks, your pretty face and don't under estimate the importance of BODY LANGUAGE, Ha!

(that's some Little Mermaid-just for you!)
Jena said…
The men up there don't like a lot of chatter, they think a girl who gossips is a bore.
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Jena said…
That was s'posed to be a musical note.
Tiff said…
I was wondering. ;o) Thanks for clarifying.
barnesanova said…
try watching beauty and the geek. you'll feel like a brain surgeon even after four all-nighters in a row.

on a serious note, i remember hearing that kerry and bush's grades affected people's opinion of them... because they expected their leaders to be 'smart'. my two cents, grades don't equal smart. i know PLENTY of people who spent their undergrad years drinking and getting d's, many of whom are now EXTREMELY successful in various careers such as neuroscience, software architecture, and yes, management. so let kerry have his childhood and don't mar him just because you think that if he got d's, then you could be president.
Jay said…
When I get really sleep deprived, everything seems funnier than it really is. Case in point: One time, in the MTC, it was toward the end of a long day and I was getting really, really tired and I caught a glimps of the Arnold Friburg painting titled Title of Liberty, and wondered what would happen if Captain Moroni went crowd surfing.

I lost it. The rest of the evening was covered in a blanket of lil'Elder Johnson giggling and craving sleep.