[jQuery] ajax call without update

[jQuery] ajax call without update

I've been using Dojo & Prototype for the last couple months and thought I'd give jquery a try.. Great class library.  But I'm stumped on something.  All of the tutorial examples I see use a general kind of bind like this:
$("p").load("test.php", function() {
  $("p").show("fast");
}
I'm curious if I can do a load (or bind in dojo language) without directing the data toward any specifc element.  I have a JSON array coming back that I need to check for server errors or form errors before I act on it.  Is there a way to do something like this?
var bind = jquery.load("test.php", function() {
  // Eval object
  // Error Check
  // Add row to table
}
Thanks a lot!
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