After laughing with Mrs. C about her recent groping,
I went back to my work. Then the phone rang. The phone had scarcely
stopped ringing since I arrived. In fact, it took Mrs. C nearly 10
minutes to tell me the original groping story because she kept being
interrupted by the phone. It's like all the people who failed to call
and pester us during my recent heavenly Sunday shift were making up for
it.
This time the call was from my wife. She had arrived in Princeton
and got word from a classmate of hers that their Board Exam scores were
in. Her classmate was hesitant to call in to hear if she'd passed, but my wife had to know right away. She phoned up the school.
As she was telling me this, I was trying to gauge her
tone of voice to see if I could detect sorrow in it. I figured things
were good, cause if she'd failed her boards she would have just called me in tears
to begin with rather than build up the suspense about it all. (Kind of
like I'm doing now.)
She passed! And she did much better on this set
of exams than she had on her first round of boards last year. (Her
classmate also passed.) It's yet another milestone in her quest to
become a doctor behind her. I think after the week she's had, she needed
the boost.
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