Delirious GMAT experience this morning / rescheduling gouging / identifying & addressing weaknesses

I want to share my morning (this is a Monday morning story I guess) with you all and kvetch for a sec about GMAT rescheduling fees.

Here's my background concept: I would like to go to an "ok" business school for cheap or free (heavy scholarship help) or a really great business school with no scholarship help. Obviously, either of these outcomes require that I score nicely on the GMAT (above 95%[?]). So, about 5 weeks ago, I plunked down the $250 to take it today. I thought between working and going to the gym (my two current major time commitments) I would still be able to do about 20-25 hours per week (at least one heavy day [studying] on the weekend, two or three hours a day otherwise). Unforch, over the intervening time period, work got very busy, and I hardly had time at all during the week, and at the same time some extended family stuff started eating into my weekends. Damn. Call it life getting in the way.

Knowing that I spent all of two and a half hours total preparing for the exam, I thought I would look at rescheduling today's examination. I thought, "I'd totally pay $50 to move this out another 5 weeks so I can get my shit together." When I got to the GMAT website, however, the reschedule fee was the exact same $250 to sign up for a new exam.

Com'on now GMAC. Pay twice as much and then just take one exam? No way. I was annoyed, but I decided that I would just take this first exam as a sunk-cost, true-to-life diagnostic exam, and let the points fall where they might. I know people often take more than one GMAT, and I doubt an ad-com would look for reasons to report a lower combo score for an applicant than their best efforts. And, let's be for real, an only "ok" ranked b-school trying to get higher average GMAT stats is going to be even less likely to nit pick on the GMAT numbers of applicants.

This weekend, fate conspired against me to take me out of town, and only give me 10 hours sleep from Friday to this morning. I don't know if some of you are these beast-mode dudes (or dudettes) who can make do with 4 hrs of sleep a night for weeks on end, but I'll be very candid, I get delirious and particularly impaired at mental math when I haven't gotten a reasonable 7 - 8 hrs of sleep.

I rolled into the Pearson profesh suite at 8 a.m., right on time, and got cracking. I can't type worth shit with a Qwerty keyboard, so I tried to be as concise and economical on the essay as I could be, I suspect my result here will be hella-normal. The delirium was particularly acute clicking through the charts and figures IR section, and I started rallying (or so I thought) for the quant section, and felt almost normal ripping through the verbal section which I finished about 35 minutes ahead of the allotted time.

I swear my eyes were crossing as I was quietly mouthing the "replace the phrase" prompts out loud; what the fuck. My eyes were crossing, I swear, while I had quietly mouthed out loud the "replacing the phrase" prompts: what the fuck. "The fuck," I swore quietly but out loud while mouthing the prompts "replacing the phrase". I promptly fucking swore out loud replacing the phrase while mouthing quietly.

Click, click, click.
Unofficial results:
3 IR .25
38 Q .40
45 V .99
680 Blend .84

Poet. Though I believe I can move up at least 4 scaled points in Quant with some preparation and most importantly some sleep. Doesn't look so good for me in the quant heavy finance world though. Maybe you'd be interested in this really nice pen I've got . . .