by photochick~ So I had to travel to Pensacola today to take one of the 455 tests required for teachers. Since I'm a career-changer, I have the whole list to go through this year. I'm at one of those lovely deathly quiet testing centers (you know, where you think . . . how could someone work here in dead silence all day long every day?) doing my thing on the computer.
Before I start the proctor asks if I would like ear plugs and I just laughed and said, "I teach 7th graders, this IS deathly quiet." Seriously, more quiet? And 7 months pregnant? I might have went right to sleep.
So the test goes on for an hour and a half and I notice out of the corner of my eye that several other test-takers finish and leave the room while I'm checking my asnwers (the whole time thinking, I wish I had a video to show my students that it really is important to CHECK your answers!). Then I'm finished, click the fatal button to end the test and get up to exit the room.
I put my chair under the desk and non-chalantly push in a couple of other empty chairs left astray on my way out the door of the bullet proof, err, sound proof room cage, I mean room. As I exited the proctor was laughing and said, "a little ocd anyone?" I hadn't even realized that I pushed in the chairs until she said that and I was rolling. You know, relief the test was over and realization of just HOW MANY TIMES A DAY that I put chairs back, pick stuff up off the floor, straighten desks. It's a little less ocd at this point and a little more conditioned training to not end up with a room that looks like a train wreck at the end of the day!
In my defense, I really am not nearly as OCD as I once was. Actually, a shell of my former OCD self. Just come look at my house any day of the week, or ask my husband about the toys that generally live in our living room these days or the dishes in the sink! For some reason, those chairs just really bothered me. :-)
(oh and I passed the test . . . whooo hooo and Praise the Lord!)
Congrats! And before I even read what the proctor said to you I was thinking, she's just in the habit of pushing in chairs and straightening up 452 times a day and did it without even a thought. I guess you're a real live teacher. All those years of "playing" school paying off. :-)
Posted by: singerchick | April 01, 2009 at 09:28 AM
I feel your pain. Congrats on the test!
Posted by: Ayshia Hatcher | April 01, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Glad you passed!
Posted by: babychick | April 01, 2009 at 10:21 AM
Congrats on passing!
Posted by: Jessica W. | April 01, 2009 at 10:55 AM
COngrats on passing the test. WHat test was it? It is funny how the teacher in you starts coming out when you don't even realize it. I have realized that I get on to Miss Priss more like a teacher. I don't scream or yell I just get the deep voice like a teacher getting on to an entire class room.
Posted by: socialchchick | April 01, 2009 at 02:54 PM
When I saw the title of this post I knew it was you before I even saw it - we are alike in so many ways! LOL. Glad you passed the test and had a quiet afternoon
Posted by: uncommonblonde | April 01, 2009 at 07:29 PM
Glad that test is behind you. When Cupcake was studying for her final FCAT test, I remember parents were asked to do a sample prep test. That sucker was tricky.
Laughing abuot the OCD... I mentioned on a blog post about my OCD and someone emailed me to ask what meds I as on. Ooops. No meds-just crazy me!
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