Welp . . . summer happened. In said time I took a huge test, lost an inspiration in my Grandma Sue, spent a week working at a pediatric oncology camp, reunited with a certain friend who spent way to much damn time away from us all in the Far East, watched a good friend and my sister fall in love, and drank far too heavily (largely due to that last point). All of these items are probably worthy of "blogging" about but who really cares? Not I . . . well maybe later, because I know you all want to hear about why I now, by law, have to hate Mark Jung.
In the coming weeks I will be doing another camp (this one will be kiddos with diabetes) which I am very excited about for very obvious reasons, and also doing my first "real" rotation at a family medicine clinic in Austin (more obviously reasoned excitement there). All my pals are already neck deep in the seemingly excruciating rig-a-ma-roll that is 3rd year while I am just barely easing my ankles into the situation. I'm OK with that fact. I hope you all who have summers are enjoying them and you all who don't I hope you are coping with that bit of real life appropriately.
7.14.2008
5.09.2008
big day
At 9 am tomorrow (technically today) I will take my last lecture-based-course exam ever. It has been a long haul. There is a real temptation to ignore the obvious fact that it only gets harder for the next 5 years for me and just be giddy about the fact that my days, while much more untenable, will no longer consist of merely sitting through power points and then regurgitating them.
4.27.2008
4.14.2008
This is a good thing.
iConcertCal
OK so you go there and you follow the directions under how to install.
Then you open iTunes and check it out (under visualizations). What this thing does is look through all of your music and tell you if any of your artists are playing anywhere in a certain radius of you, also it will tell you when any of your artists have new CDs coming out.
All kinds of useful.
OK so you go there and you follow the directions under how to install.
Then you open iTunes and check it out (under visualizations). What this thing does is look through all of your music and tell you if any of your artists are playing anywhere in a certain radius of you, also it will tell you when any of your artists have new CDs coming out.
All kinds of useful.
4.07.2008
4.03.2008
Venting . . .( like relaxing but with a whiny attitude)
This is the latest in a long gripefest about the bottom rung health insurance the UT system supplies (read: requires we pay for) if we are no longer supplied insurance through our parents.
{Logical point being made by many: You could sign up for any insurance you want, they simply suggest that one and only require that you have something.
Logical counter: True, but the max govt. funding for students on loan is calculated using this insurance as the model and other private insurance policies (that are worth a damn) are more than 400% more per year.}
Anyways the policy provides 1,000 smackaroos per year for prescription coverage, this is probably fine for most but does about a third of the job for someone who may or may not be insulin dependent. So I hit this limit, not a large shocker to anyone who has talked to these people that they care very little for any inconvenience (read: hospitalizations) this may cause. So last year when this happened I was working in an Endo. office and the doctor offered to supply me with medications for the summer until my limit reset. Only one small problem the ladies in charge of the fridge of supplies do not like the look of a white/male/Caucasian/in a white coat mooching off their supplies that are normally meant for those less fortunate than I, I cannot say I blame them.
So this year there is a new plan in the works: drug companies, because no-one feels bad about taking from these a-holes (and they have to give away X amount per year for tax purposes). They merely require my 1040 (supplied proving I made a whopping 900 dollars last year) and a sheet from the insurance company saying they are no longer providing me with prescription coverage. Easy.
My phone tells me I was just on the phone for 2 hours and 11 minutes. During this time, I talked to upwards of 6 six different offices, multiple layers of management, I used varying degrees of anger/frustration/despair/civility/outright disbelief in my voice and got absolutely nowhere. There was a thrilling conclusion when Karen from MedCo Management told me that I had been incorrectly transferred to her and that in fact the people I had just been talking to would help me and she would be happy to transfer me back to them. At this point I begin "I am afraid they told me the same thing . . . ." I then hear the transfer button pushing and sigh to myself . . . . then . . .dial tone. She accidentally hung up on me after over two hours of getting nowhere.
Good God Almighty, why on Earth does this system exist.
Point being that these companies will tell you until they are blue in the face that their policy does not provide the help you need, what they won't do is put a piece of paper in your hand that says that is the case. Leaving the whiny to whine to their friends who care plenty but are really quite tired of the very similar stories being spit out for weeks on end.
Here's something funny to make up for all for all of that you may or may not have just read.
{Logical point being made by many: You could sign up for any insurance you want, they simply suggest that one and only require that you have something.
Logical counter: True, but the max govt. funding for students on loan is calculated using this insurance as the model and other private insurance policies (that are worth a damn) are more than 400% more per year.}
Anyways the policy provides 1,000 smackaroos per year for prescription coverage, this is probably fine for most but does about a third of the job for someone who may or may not be insulin dependent. So I hit this limit, not a large shocker to anyone who has talked to these people that they care very little for any inconvenience (read: hospitalizations) this may cause. So last year when this happened I was working in an Endo. office and the doctor offered to supply me with medications for the summer until my limit reset. Only one small problem the ladies in charge of the fridge of supplies do not like the look of a white/male/Caucasian/in a white coat mooching off their supplies that are normally meant for those less fortunate than I, I cannot say I blame them.
So this year there is a new plan in the works: drug companies, because no-one feels bad about taking from these a-holes (and they have to give away X amount per year for tax purposes). They merely require my 1040 (supplied proving I made a whopping 900 dollars last year) and a sheet from the insurance company saying they are no longer providing me with prescription coverage. Easy.
My phone tells me I was just on the phone for 2 hours and 11 minutes. During this time, I talked to upwards of 6 six different offices, multiple layers of management, I used varying degrees of anger/frustration/despair/civility/outright disbelief in my voice and got absolutely nowhere. There was a thrilling conclusion when Karen from MedCo Management told me that I had been incorrectly transferred to her and that in fact the people I had just been talking to would help me and she would be happy to transfer me back to them. At this point I begin "I am afraid they told me the same thing . . . ." I then hear the transfer button pushing and sigh to myself . . . . then . . .dial tone. She accidentally hung up on me after over two hours of getting nowhere.
Good God Almighty, why on Earth does this system exist.
Point being that these companies will tell you until they are blue in the face that their policy does not provide the help you need, what they won't do is put a piece of paper in your hand that says that is the case. Leaving the whiny to whine to their friends who care plenty but are really quite tired of the very similar stories being spit out for weeks on end.
Here's something funny to make up for all for all of that you may or may not have just read.
3.31.2008
starting small
I have made a crucial error. I stumbled upon the, 'hey come build a blog' spiel online and resolutely decided that was something I needed to do. I then filled out the forms, questionnaires, background checks, supplied a urine sample and was in fact given an actual blog spot (a pride filled moment for us all). You are now noting that I forgot a critical element of the planning; I never devised any purpose for the aforementioned blog. That being said, welcome to 'nothing in particular'.
some FAQs:
Do I have any reason to think anyone will look at this?
None whatsoever (although the smart money is on 'my mom will love it')
What will I say, place, or do on this valuable chunk of interweb real estate?
I have no idea
Is anyone interested thus far?
Likely not the case
some FAQs:
Do I have any reason to think anyone will look at this?
None whatsoever (although the smart money is on 'my mom will love it')
What will I say, place, or do on this valuable chunk of interweb real estate?
I have no idea
Is anyone interested thus far?
Likely not the case
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