grades, survival, Down To The Bone

Passed my Med/Surg 1 module Final Exam last Friday with a 93, an A. Gave me a high B for the course. God, I hunkered down and studied hard for that. Pulled my grades up from two Cs on Exams 1 and 2 to an A for the final. I also got a 98 on my cervical cancer paper. That helped a lot. So did getting together with my study group. Twice.
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Saw Down To The Bone yesterday at the Gene Siskel Center (School for the Art Institute of Chicago). Oh, Hugh Dillon broke my heart in that film. And so did Vera Farmiga. The last scenes between them just killed me. Though it's obviously low budget, it's well constructed as a film (narrative-wise) and acted very, very believably by both Hugh and Vera. Very much worth seeing. (The Chicago Reader made it a Critics Choice this week.)
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