I'm not a test taker...

The Bengals suck so far this year so we’ll move on.

In the world of orthodontics, I am pink…sigh, again. There are only so many dark colors to choose from and I have used them all many times now and I just want them off. I kept my powerchain on the top and they put a partial one back on the bottom. Just 6 weeks of not having it on the bottom and those teeth were on the move. I am going to have to be very diligent about wearing my retainer…I would rather not go through this again or spend another few thousand. Once is definitely worth it but definitely enough. I am very happy about the difference in my teeth. It’s like night and day and I have had a few comments from people about how much I smile now and how I never used to. On that note, after Dr. I was done shaping some teeth, he said “We’ll do this then we’ll get you wrapped up.”. I hope that means I get them off next month. I ran it by the assistant and he said it looks like I will be done then. Oh, keep your fingers crossed for me!

After studying so hard every day, thinking I had absorbed the information fully and feeling pretty confident, I fell apart during my midterm. I was in some pain due to the surgery and my orthodontic adjustment earlier that day, the instructor decided we could skip our break and take the test during that dreaded 4^th hour of class and he threw in some questions from a chapter we hadn’t covered yet. I was a mess and it was really hard. The guy next to me had figured to this point that he didn’t need to buy the required textbook for the class. During the test he was rubbing his forehead really hard in that stressed out way, making the noise that goes along with that (that forced breathing thing) and frantically punching numbers into his calculator, rubbing his forehead again then punching more numbers then nearly slamming his head onto the desk. Guess what he had in his hand the next week? Yep, the textbook. The instructor said everyone did poorly but gave us a break on the questions we hadn’t covered yet which left me with an 82%. I was satisfied with that but he also gave us an option of taking a new, shorter test that day and taking the higher of the 2 scores. I figured it was a win-win so I took this second test and it was much easier and I felt confident in my answers. I don’t know when we get the scores since we have a different instructor for the next 2 weeks for finance and appraisal. Lucky us, we get 2 final exams, one from each instructor. Whoopie!