Entrance Exam: School of Life - multiple choice

must use black ink only

pencils and erasers will be confiscated

anyone caught talking to other participants will be escorted from the building

all answers are final - you have one hour.

one day, they opened the door and let me in

(why  that day was different than before i'll never know,

i didn't feel any different; somedays that's good, sometimes not, sometimes i don't think about it)

maybe I was wearing the right shoes?

anyway, there I was . . .and I had brought my own pen,

black ink, i remembered that much . . .

rows and rows

rows

and

rows

of seats.

(alphabetical? do they still use names? or is it numerical now? did they change the rules? am i allowed to ask? do i get a number? shit! it's been a while since i've done this)

chair

sit

page

list

long or short

there's nothing here I'd choose

(only one colour? what if I want them all?)

I want something

new

There are no right or wrong answers to this question

Life

(why on earth did i think this was important?

am i going to fail? is that possible? )

june 22, 12:11 a.m. sitting in a very old chair

and . . ..