Advice

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Had my first day of a new temp job up in Kearny Mesa. It's purchasing 4hrs/day for the next 2 weeks, which seems doable. Had my dr. appt. TB might be a false positive (yay!), so they did another blood test, a skin test, and took chestrays. The bleeding and digestive problems are a worry, of course, and the last cell sample came back one step higher than in 2009. Prescribed antibiotics, scheduled more tests, including a colonoscopy.

My scores from the exam were waiting for me when I got home. Just the scores though, not the exam itself. The bad news is that my essays were bad. *Really* bad. The exam gets graded twice. The two I thought were absolute slam dunk maximum scores barely and didn't pass, respective to the grader. The good news is that the last PT, the one that almost made me get up and walk out, was by far my highest grade on the test, and well above passing. I'm guessing I have the same problem Ashley did, and my method of analysis just isn't what they're looking for.

Tim came over later, wanting to know, in detail, why I needed a colonoscopy. "Okay, so pre-pre cancer, but where? What part of your body?" I refuse to believe he's that dumb, so the only thing left is that he knows I don't want to go into detail, and just wants to push until I snap at him. When I finally refused to talk about it any more, he offered advice on the Bar. I mentioned that, given my scores, it's probably my analysis. He suggested that I probably needed to know the Spirit of the law as well as the Letter of the law.....ignoring, for a moment, that this phrase actually means nothing outside of very specific situations, and that all that actually matters when practicing is the letter of the law, it's fairly galling to have people who have no concept of the exam or how it's graded give advice. Hell, people who've been through the exam barely have any idea how the thing is graded.