Testing, testing, 1-2-3!

I haven't learned the internet. I've been studying for a big test tomorrow. Most of what I have to learn is not horrible, no, just a lot of words I will not actually be using in my work. At least I certainly haven't heard or used them in four years of not-super-terrible mental health treatment. Isolation of affect and dysphoria and all these damned ego functions. Snooze.

Most fun terms: hot and cold empathy. Hot empathy is emotional empathy, you know, feeling the feelings; cold empathy is a cognitive understanding of their situation. Sort of. There's more than that. Words fail, you know? A hot empathizer is also a hot chick who, you know, gets it.

"You can play those songs on your synthesizer and I can feel your pain cuz I'm a hot empathizer."

And here's the plan: get license, get licensed, turn 31. It is a big week for a little Saint. And speaking of saints! Let's ask the Wikipedia about one for test taking!

Saint Joseph of Cupertino was said to have been remarkably unclever, but prone to miraculous levitation and intense ecstasies that left him gaping. In turn, he is recognized as the patron saint of air travelers, aviators, people with a mental handicap, and bad students. He was canonized in 1767.

"O St. Joseph of Cupertino, who by your prayer obtained from God to be asked at your examination, the only preposition you knew. Grant that I may like you succeed in the Clinical Social Work Licensure examination. In return I promise to make you known and cause you to be invoked. O St. Joseph of Cupertino pray for me, O Holy Ghost enlighten me, Our Lady of Good Studies pray for me, Sacred Head of Jesus, Seat of divine wisdom, enlighten me. "