If t here are any of you in the Bellevue area that can help, or know of someone who is willing, I have a friend who put this request out today... Please consider it. Let me know if you want contact info.
XOX

"I was raised as a pullupyerownbootstraps type of person and I don't often ask the universe - much less other humans - for help meeting specific needs. But the upcoming month is weighing heavily and so I'm throwing this onto the Winds:

I am taking the Washington Bar Exam on July 25th, 26th, and 27th. Despite the fact that we are now permitted to use laptops for the exam, I am choosing to handwrite it. My main reasons are that I am better able to organize my thoughts when I handwrite, and the process of writing is actually quicker because I don't make (and obsessively have to correct) spelling/typing errors with a pen. The problem lies in the fact that I have the beginnings of arthritis in my hands, which makes writing (and typing to a certain extent) harder than I'd like. On the 25th and 26th, the days are broken into three 2 hour and 15 minute sessions of writing. So here's my need: Someone to brave one of the bridges and come to bellevue to massage my hands, arms and shoulder(s) on the night of the 25th. I can manage to go without on the 26th, cause the next day is a single 2 hour and 15 minute session. But that first night I am going to be in such pain...

So that's it. I have very little money (being the starving, just graduated from law school, still living on student loans, single mama) so cheaper is better. I know it's a lot to ask, but I'm putting it out there."