A pharmacy benefit that caps out at $35 a month isn't much help when my meds cost about $120 a month.
Why exactly are we paying $200-some a month for this insurance plan again? It sure can't be for the revolving-door service I got at my new doctor's office last month. Really, I should take one rx to the pharamacy that takes the insurance, and the other to Mal-Wart. Much as I hate them, they are the cheapest la pharmacia in town.
2005 - the year of the gripe.
We have this rule: whenever my spouse calls me weird, he has to add a modifer. For example, "you're weird, but pretty" is acceptable.
I just don't understand why I keep falling asleep when I try to read The Scarlet Letter in bed.
Random thought of the day: Whatever happened to Scott Baio?
My brother has bad teeth. This, coupled with a lack of a dental plan, and a sense of adventure, has led him to experiment with at-home dentistry. So far he has experimented with packing aspirin in a hole in one of his teeth, and removing a bad tooth. Yes. He pulled one of his own teeth. He wouldn't give me too many details, other than he did not go the "tie a string around the tooth and tie the end to a doorknob" route, and he did have to go to the emergency room, presumably for infection.
But both of these are not as bad as a one-time coworker of his, a female construction worker who also decided to pull out one of her bad teeth. She decided to get drunk as a form of anesthesiology, which unfortunately impaired her to the point where she pulled out the wrong tooth.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go floss the teeth I want to keep.
"Take and don't regret it. The worst that can happen is that you would have to give it back." This motto is in Italian on a 16th century Italian painted ceramic plate, and if you're interested in such things, you can see some here at an exhibit at the strangely-named Frick Museum.
I really like that motto, but I feel as if I shouldn't.
Michael York (the actor - apparently there's a motivational speaker by the same name, though I have to say I found this Michael York pretty motivating) came to the university this week to give a talk on Shakespeare and acting. It was quite interesting. Too bad the theatre department didn't think to invite us English majors to his talk to their students that afternoon. I'll remember that when I'm a rich alum. But I digress again. The important points I gleaned from the talk are:
Afterwards, Lunchbox used his mutant celebrity-tracking powers to ferret out where a reception was taking place. Since it was in the building where my office is, we took this as an invitation to attend. After introducing myself as a graduate English student who was studying Renaissance literature, I then got the actor to sign our copy of Logan's Run, which seemed to amuse him.
Having our friends over for the weekend was a blast, and the combination of events has given me some good ideas for papers I have to write this semester. Genius! Thank you!
"You're still following me? Stop! Leave me alone! I'm just teasing. Come here. Come.. closer. You know I love you, my little monkeys. But leave me my dreams. Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily. I love to play. Every time I play.. you win. Ciao."
"La Dolce Gilda", SNL
This weekend we watched a great special on the first five years of Saturday Night Live. It was far more than just a clip show, there were many interviews with cast and writers, woven in with a judicious selection of clips and some of the great musical acts from the show during that time.
Now I have an addition to where I would like to go if I could go back in time. I'd love to go work with those gifted, wacky, funny geniuses that started SNL in the mid 70s. I can only imagine what amazing, frenetic energy went into making those early episodes. At least now after having watched that special, I have a vague idea.
