Result!

So, it transpires that John Kerry was in Melbourne today, giving a speech on climate change: [link] I found this out because Biyi was in the audience! She was interpreting for one of the attendees. Apparently he's quite an impressive speaker. I'm feeling a bit jealous.

me too. I feel like Kerry got a bad rap. Tom, sorry it sucked, but that's not a failing of yours. (although I can relate, because most socializing requires so much arranging, between logistical hurdles and homebody-mom-as-driver...although, at least she knows what I mean when I say "Mom, I'm like a day and a half from running my Warren glasses against the door and shouting "attica!") that anything less than a transcendent event can seem like a huge disappointment. and most things aren't that awesome here.

I went to the dentist today. I have to drive back to Brevard because my dentist is awesome and it's worth the drive. Although I've been procrastinating and haven't found a doctor down here and it's September. Anyway I was running late and they accommodated me. I didn't see my regular dentist but saw his brother who assured me my teeth are good, except the one that we all know about but it should be next year before I have to do anything.

I forgot my night guard and it needs to be filed down a bit. So he gave me the blue strips to make a bite mark and told me how to use an emery board to file the spot down. Or he said to call them and let them know I need a few minutes next time I'm in town and they will work me in.

We bitched about United Healthcare/dental care for awhile. United sucks. He said that United is the only insurance that won't pay for a crown when a crown has come off. It's the only way to replace it and they still balk. Last year I had United and they wouldn't pay for my crown because I had several small, deep cracks in my tooth and not 1 big one. The down side was my blood pressure was really really high. High enough the hygienist asked if I had seen a doctor recently.

But I chalked it up to the stress of being late etc. Although it's worrying that my blood pressure got that high. I checked it again at Wal Mart's pharmacy and it was in an ok range but still it's higher than it's been before and I can't act like I don't know why (my weight, lack of exercise, bad diet). I've been doing some yoga but I need to figure out low impact cardio because my feet have been bothering me and I don't need the extra stress on them

I've gotten "white-coat anxiety" so bad that they had to check me after the appointment since if it was that high, I'd be in trouble.

JZ, funny, but I was a tomboy at her age didn't care about clothes...we have more issues about clothes now. OK, this is kind of stupid, but I'm sharing it here cause Bitches can guess why it's huge: Simon "liked" something I wrote, and there was disability in it. I mean, Hugh Grant still wins the net this week, but I'm feeling pretty unstoppable right now. Mikey ate my cereal, you know?

cereal: somebody just showed me America's wang and was like "erosion much?" as an argument against climate change being real...this is stupid, right? like right up there with "You could kill anyone with anything if you want to enough."

Blurping it out here since I can't anyplace more public: I think I just got out of jury duty in one of the weirder ways imaginable. I'm still officially in the potential jury pool for a Very Long Case projected to last until almost the end of January, but I'm pretty sure that when the defense team reads my potential juror questionnaire they will all hemorrhage out their eyeballs.

Class action suit, regarding price gouging from a for-profit medical center network that's one of my institution's rivals (and, huh, now I can guess why my division almost never gets any referrals from this group). Potential juror questionnaire, which was 15 pages long, included questions like: "Do you feel positive, negative or neutral about US-style capitalism? Please explain your answer."

Which I did. Oh, I did. The phrase "predatory and amoral at best" was involved.

I was also asked about my feelings WRT health insurance companies, and I may have used the word "vampires."

Also, I know for sure that I know one of the people on the potential witnesses, have voted for another, and about a dozen more sounded very familiar.

I'm theoretically supposed to go back on Emmett's birthday to find out if I am still in the potential juror pool, but if I am the defendant is doomed, because I have to have been about the shittiest potential juror in the room.

Also, Judd Winick was also in the potential jury pool. I didn't pounce on him because it just didn't seem the place or time, but I have never wished more dearly that I just happened to have some Juniper Lee swag and a Sharpie on me.

JZ, those are some quality responses right there.

ION, finally FINALLY, 11 days after he took the correct test for his Ritalin, the test result came back (pretty sure it was outsourced to another lab, and then there was Labor Day, but still, that's a long damn time), and the results show he has Ritalin in his system, which is the desired outcome.

What a damn circus, though. Sheesh.

Hi friends! Steph, that is some extreme stupidity on the doctors part in deed. I'm glad it finally worked out.

Tom, what everyone else said. You went, it's a win.

Skye, have you tried water aerobics? I keep meaning to do it for similar reasons but the times aren't convenient to me. It is fun, though. And a work out!

As you may have seen on Facebook or in Press, I am doing an AMA tomorrow to raise money for my organizer friend. Even if you can't afford a donation, I'd appreciate comments and stuff on the post so that more people could see it. So come by!

It is bonkers what Tim has gone through to get a damn renewal everyone involved in his life or healthcare has to know was appropriate and necessary. I'm glad for you and him, but what bullshit!

My ankle is hurting like hell, and I've got some massive brain fog along with it. If I'm still feeling like this tomorrow, teaching calculus is really not going to be fun.