Foreign Service Officer's Test and ending friendships

I took the Foreign Service Officer's Test for the State Department today. It was not a very difficult exam, although there are a lot of questions that cause one to have to think hard, especially if it's some historical event or economic theory that one does not remember. In all, the test did not take me that long to complete, but it's one of those that leaves you exhausted after you finish it.

I sent off three of my writing works to the Stockton Arts Commission today after I returned home. It's the same contest I won last year with my short story romance, "Buried Memories". I sent a short story called "Simple Girl", about a young woman everyone considers "simple" but ends up being the smartest person in town; it's more detailed than that, but that's the "simple" version of it. I also sent an article I wrote called "Stealing Humanity", and a poem I wrote called "Sleeping America." We'll see what happens.

Had a weird verbal altercation with a friend this evening that just kept pissing me off in the sanctimonious way he kept responding in our conversation. It was one of those "I can never be wrong, so I'm going to fight for each word of a sentence, even though it serves no purpose but piss off the other person" so I kicked him out of my house. If he needs to be "right", he can be "right" all the time he wants. It just won't be as my friend any more.

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