I found out yesterday that apparently I have become less intelligent over the course of the past 11 years.

A little background for that statement follows:

When I was fifteen I was forced to take an intelligence test to determine which advanced classes, if any I was to take in my remaining years of Primary Education.  I scored a 155 on that test.  For some perspective most IQ scales are laid out in the following manner:

• Average: 85 - 115
• Above average: 116 - 125
• Gifted Borderline Genius: 126 - 135
• Highly gifted and appearing to be a Genius to most others: 136 - 145
• Genius: 146 - 165
• High Genius: 166 - 180
• Highest Genius: 181 - 200
• Beyond being measurable Genius: Over 200

Yesterday I scored 130 on the same IQ test.  You can see from whence my discomfort originates... It appears that I have lost 25 points of intelligence since the age of fifteen!  That is just depressing.  I would like to believe the sage words of Simeon's Wife Ashley, that the original score was artificially inflated due to my advancement at that age but I somehow can't.  I have been thinking alot lately that I don't have the ease with words or the quick wit that I used too in those bygone days.

I can only blame it on having lived in Kentucky for the past 5 years.