missy, you best not have white-fonted a @@ at the end of that. I will calmly cut you.

Jesse - what did you regret?

Starting in 2014, insurance companies will no longer be able to deny coverage with people with preexisting conditions.

Doesn't help me much right now. the school doesn't have student health insurance, just an on campus clinic for first aid, shots and such. My biggest concern is Mental Health services. I haven't explored what's available here yet, because I was putting it off hoping to get the job with the insurance...

My psychiatrist back in KC has been kind enough to keep writing me prescriptions but can't keep it up forever and may no be able to after the insurance runs out. le sigh.

I would never roll my eyes at you, msbelle! I'm too scared.

Jesse - what did you regret?

It's very girlish in a way that makes me a afraid I'll never actually wear it.

Hee. Same regret I have about my Trxie dress.

Well, that and the the regret I feel for having such a profound ass.

If your IT department doesn't know this and hasn't taken it into account, they should be fired. It's why we had copiers and fax machines rolled into imaging devices, so the content could be handled according to office regs.

Our IT department doesn't take care of our copiers for some reason-- we have a "building administrator" who deals with supplies who deals with the copier. And the University has a copier department! Run by Xerox, so I am assuming they know.

Well, that and the the regret I feel for having such a profound ass.

Don't regret that! But also don't get the J. Peterman -- the skirt is SUPER full. And yet, no pockets!

Yeah, it sounds like maintaining that insurance may need to be high on your priority list, possibly above school. How far short will you be on your other vital bills? You don`t have to give specifics, but you should be aware what you`re trading off if you do so. It sucks to have to look at health care in terms of insurance payments. Anyway, the Dave Ramsey philosophy is to take care of your crucial stuff first, roof over your head, food on the table, clothes on your back. Then you can start looking at the other stuff. So don`t give up any of that to make a payment if you`re at risk in other ways.

Profound ass + SUPER full = UNflassering.

This is off the subject, but there I have a Facebook friend who is very religious-- almost all of her updates are in the form of prayer, or talking about how God helps her get through things or just praising and asking for help. I didn't defriend her because she seems so sincere and is not mean-spirited at all, just a genuine person for whom religion is a big, big part of her life, and she doesn't seem out for converts or at all judgemental.

Her sister has cancer, and every day she posts about how she knows there is a miracle coming, and that people should pray, and that she trusts in God to make her sister well, but it has become obvious that her sister is declining.

I just feel so bad for her, because she seems so sure that her faith will make her sister better, and it seems like a terrible burden to have if her sister dies-- that maybe if she was more faithful, her sister would have lived.

Anyway, I am finding it very disturbing.