If the recent weather conditions could be
summarily taken as a portent, the upcoming start of my reviews this week would
be nothing less than challenging. I wish I could brush off this foreboding
sense of dismay and curdling anxiety, but the fact remains that the review
center I opted to enrol in is located at an area renowned for incessant
flooding and the persistent presence of criminal activity. Despite the fact
that it is in close proximity to one of the most prestigious universities in
the country; which I surmise is also a factor why pickpockets, hold-uppers and
various sorts of malevolent intent plague the locale, it is also quite remote
from where I hold office.