Man, I am really trying to stay ahead of things as much as possible.
Not always so easy, but I am trying. I already took care of my mortgage
license issues, so I'm good on that. However, I am kinda pushing the
envelope when it comes to my insurance license. I did this online
course that was 8 credit hours...so, I'm thinking it shouldn't take more
than 8 hours, right? Wrong! That bad boy had like 200 hundred
different screens. I started Friday (I think), and I didn't knock it
out until Tuesday. Granted I wasn't doing it all at once, that's
ridiculous. I passed the online exam, though. Problem is, I was ji'
fried after the first course, so I didn't fare as well on the second
continuing education exam. The course wasn't nearly as long, but the
way it was broken up kinda sucked. Where the first one was broken up
too much and repetitious, the second one wasn't broken up enough. I
could have taken the easy route and done what I already knew, but I
wanted to learn something new, so I'll arrange to retake the exam...I'll
just need to take two or three hours to really comb through the course
again first. I finished the first test in like 10 minutes or less, too.
I just wasn't mentally focused on the second.

Aside from that, I got tot kick it with a couple folks I hadn't really
kicked it with in a minute, one being oh, I don't know, 8 years. High
school friend, lost contact, facebook, reconnected, hooked back up,
everything's copasetic. I didn't get a lot of sleep this weekend, so
I'm dog tired right now. But, I am happy as I don't know what about
yesterday's inauguration and subsequent festivities. Which raises the
question, would it have been all of that fan fare had McCain won? I
mean, I highly doubt BET would have been holding any events.

I watched from like 8 something in the morning until like 4 something
when one of my homegirl's came through for a sec with her cousin.
Chopped it up with them for a second, then I got right back into the
inaugural events. Don't know why FAMU got to march so early and
Howard's Showtime band had to wait so long. Can't hate on the Showtime
band like that, that's bad form. Anyway, I'm happy it's official, and I
look forward to seeing what our new president aka "That Guy" brings to
the table. I know he has a whole lot of expectation heaped on his
shoulders, but I also think that the way he carries himself will give
him a better opportunity and higher likelihood that he'll fulfill more
promises than his predecessors. It still feels a bit surreal, but I'm
feeling how people are genuinely enthused.

Hopefully I'll get some sleep, been up way too late the last few days,
and it's finally caught up with me.

I will holla later, back to the j-o
1ne.
sLeepy