RAVE: One of the medications I am on is really, really expensive, $6,800/ month (that's for 1 pill a day). Our new health insurance plan through my wife's new job has a $5,000 deductible before any benefits are paid (after which, all Rxs are covered 100%). Fortunately, the drug manufacturer has a deductible assistance program and since I am still unemployed, I qualify. Thus, they will be paying out my $5,000 deductible for me! The drug is for people who have type 2 diabetes secondary to Cushings disease and blocks the cortisol receptors, thus lowering the patient's blood glucose (and in my case, reduces weight--I've lost over 35 lbs. in the 1 year I've been on it without exercising or changing my diet. It's also helped to lower my blood pressure and cholesterol). Hopeful rave: I've had two interviews recently with different offices of a state agency that I feel pretty good about, so hopefully I'll be back to work next month.
RANT: Doctor thinks i have a torn meniscus, but I won't know for sure until I get an MRI, which wont be until the 10th of march at the soonest. At least I'll have insurance starting next month
Temporary Rave: beautifully twisted, about to play some poker at the local casino. God I love twisted poker.
Rant: Ohm.... Ohm.... Resist the urge to punch the PM in the face... Resist the urge to punch the PM in the face... Resist the urge to punch the PM in the face... Ohm... Ohm...
Rave: I've been going on an absurd number of dates lately, working long hours, traveling quite a bit, and drinking more than quite a bit. I had a thought a couple days ago that I've been living like a shark, constantly moving with zero downtime. Today, I was the sloth. Woke up with a mild hangover after making mildly bad decisions last night. My first thought was who should I call, what should I do? And then my second thought was fuck that, it's mother fuckin' nap time. My second delivery meal of the day is on the way and I have barely moved from the couch except to grab a book. Plans to go out later, but damn, this change of pace was nice. Rant: Not complaining, exactly, because I feel like I've been surfing some kind of female tidal wave, which has definitely been fun, but it would be nice to get something steadier going. Being in the preliminary dating stages with a few girls at once is exhausting. And of course, the ones that are super into me are never the ones I see myself with long term.
rant aaand now there was apparently a gun battle outside my apartment. Seriously??? my girlfriend was about 5 min from being an innocent bystander. there's like 5 cars being towed away with gunshots....commence new apartment hunting right....now.
Rant: The annual LARP is here again. Long story short, Boyfriend's cousin LARPs and is doing a post doc in theoretical math, and of the two of those her mom thought we could better participate in the LARPing than understand the math, so she arranges a yearly event that we all have to go to. I love my boyfriend and I (mostly) love his family, too, but we cannot let them continue to subject us to this kind of torture.
Rave: I get to spend two weeks on a goat farm in Utah training adorable little goats to be pack goats for campers! Rave: And potentially get to have the entire road trip paid for if I take on some passengers from Oregon to Utah. Those passengers? Adorable little piglets. YAY!
Rant: Lady, I don't care that you're married. I do care, however, that you didn't tell me you were married.
Rave My sister may be adopting a two year old lab. I met the dog today and the person giving the dog up. Great animal, typical lab, I hope it works out. And I'm getting ready to be an uncle. My sister in law will have the kids Tuesday. Believe it or not, I'm more excited about the dog.
Rave: The VW plant in Chattanooga voted down the UAW. This is a very good thing for those of us in the auto industry in the Southeast.
RAVE: On Friday, I was offered and accepted a counselor position with a state agency. 20 minute commute, state benefits, and holidays off I didn't even know we're holidays (Texas Independence Day? LBJ's birthday?). I'm feeling very grateful!
Rant/rave: So last week saw a flurry of activity at my work good and bad. One, the crazy girl I had talked about before ended up quitting. While it was awkward and the owner tried to pin the blame squarely on me as I had expected. It smoothed over quicker than normal because the daytime supervisor, the girl in my position during the day, ended up quitting in dramatic fashion at a big meeting the next day. Then, the following day she wrote a tell all email of all the BS we encounter day to day with the new owner and sent it to EVERYBODY. I appreciated it because it did outline very specifically all of the terrible issues I have been bitching about for a while here. The owner of course has not even hinted that she will acknowledge said email even exist but at least someone went on record calling her on her terrible behavior.
Rave: I was always on board with Floor replacing Anette since I loved Floor's work with After Forever, but I was still skeptical that she could fully capture what Tarja used to deliver. Then I watched this video and am completely sold. Nightwish is back! Spoiler
Rave: 2 hour delay tomorrow. Rant: ...Only because they are literally scared to death of the reaction if they cancel another day, and they're just absolutely petrified of the reaction if they don't. Fully half the parents are going to shit their pants in fury if there is school tomorrow (the corporation doesn't care about the safety of our kids) and the other half will shit their pants in fury if there isn't school tomorrow (we have work, and no one to take care of our kids!). By the way, this isn't just my school district. Every district in my region is having the same issues, and none of them want to cancel because we've cancelled so much already and they fear the wrath of parents, but they don't want to make the call to have school and face the wrath if THOSE parents. The funny part is they are all fucked either way.
Rant: I know I always post woe is me shit here, but this is something that is at least mildly entertaining. On Friday I was asked to teach a class of fellow teachers some grammar for their upcoming certification test for English as a Second Language. I agreed because I can't say no to shit. I had to spend every spare minute of today (after getting up at 5 to cook chili for a faculty lunch today) and about 2 and hours after school googling the hell out of all this shit and creating the presentation. That sucked, but I'm the dumbass agreed to help out. So at 6:30 I go acros the way to the elementary school, log in to the computer and kneel down to put in the usb for my clicker thingypieceofshit. And riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip. Knee to crotch rips in brand new khakis. Spoiler Fuck. Me. I turn to the people and say, "Uhhhhhhh today is definitely a Monday. So I will be back in fifteen minutes." They are just dying laughing. I should mention that in the class I was presenting to an incredibly attractive elementary teacher that is actually unmarried and under the age of 25. 1 of maybe 3 in this county. Shitshitshitshit. I'm no Mystery, but it can't be good when a girl is looking at your crotchal region and laughing. So I have to go back home and change. However, the senior class was meeting in the lobby of the high school, so I had to run around the high school (a considerable distance for my fat ass) to my truck, speed home, change and go back. Fortunately, I have a pretty good sense of humor and could still present after a brief period of awkwardness where I couldn't stop thinking that these people had just seen my junk. It was actually ended up being a pretty kick ass presentation as far as grammar goes. I'm sure it's one they won't forget anyway. The shitty part is that this has happened before. In high school I did it in front of 1,000 people at a major state convention when I had to hop on stage to give a speech. I also fell down a cliff thing playing paintball once with a church group and it happened. Shit sucks. The most demeaning part was when I got back home and my dad asked, "So how did your presentation go? Was it..a rip?" He followed that by the cackling of an old crone in a racist 1930s cartoon. That made me feel real good. Rave: I ran somewhere. I'm sure people were looking at their water glasses wondering if a T-Rex was about to show up.
Rave: Learning about new regulations in Asia, which should ultimately result in my promotion to Super Awesome Scientist. Rant: Said webinars started this morning at 3:15 am. Because that's the afternoon in Asia. Fuck.
Rave: Finally home after three weeks away spending way too much money on booze, breaking my body playing cricket, having an absolute blast going through the South Island of New Zealand and then eventually getting sick of being with the same people for three weeks. Thank fuck I sleep in my bed tonight. Rant: Back to work tomorrow and I miss NZ already.