Y’know what, weather, I don’t mind rain and I don’t mind sunshine, but goddamnit stop fucking alternating every other day! Rain for 2-3 days then give me a week of sun. IS THAT SO HARD.
Wow. I wish my office had that low of a Powerpoint Recitation Ratio!
Have you seen that Southwest Airlines commercial? It perfectly captures the agony of Droning Powerpoint Recitation.
I have to teach an extremely boring text today. Have to because it’s all fundamental and shit, but…
I’m not really into teaching in and of itself. I’ve never thought of myself as a teacher. However, I really love what I’m doing and want to impart at least some of that enthusiasm to my students - that’s all I’ve really got going for me, teaching-wise. So when the topic for this week and next week is so boring I can barely get through the lectures? They must totally hate me.
Unfortunately, it wouldn’t have made a difference. The bone cancer is a metastasis from another cancer, and Frost won’t be with us much longer.
What I don’t understand is why they wouldn’t do an x-ray on him when we specifically asked them to. I told them money is not an issue, so why not try and get the most information possible? And two separate vets have told me that doing a drawer test on an unsedated dog is difficult and unreliable, at best.
I am reading a book called Berlin 1945 which is about the end of World War II in Europe and it has a lot of discussion about troop movements and battles in places I am not familiar with/ That’s ok, there are maps…in the front of the book with no reference to which map I should look at. So I am constantly flipping back and forth from where I am reading to the front and then back and tring to connect the dots. Is it really so hard to include some maps in the meat of the book?
Fry in hell, fuckers who drive too fast and too close to the curb when it’s raining. I got liberally splashed by a couple of them this morning while waiting for the bus. My shoes and the bottoms of my pants legs are still wet. Most of the drivers on my street manage to drive just fine without splashing a tsunami of rainwater up onto the sidewalk. But a few assholes or bad drivers either don’t care if they splash water on people on the sidewalk, or don’t know how to avoid doing it.
I hope they hydroplane and it scares the poo out of them, or that they end up with a flooded car when they try to drive through water that is deeper than it looks.
Dear Pharmacy Price-Gougers:
I take Topamax. Migraines, you know. For many, many months it’s been costing me about $115 a month. A little less than $4 a day, and oh, so glad I have insurance to cover it. So today I go to the pharmacy to pick up my refill, and holy shit, it’s $198.
What the fuck? I ask the pharmacy clerk, in slighter more dainty language. It’s because a new generic version has come out, she answers, and so they charge more for the name brand. Do I want the generic?
Hells yes I want the generic. She goes to consult with the pharmacist.
No, it seems that while the generic is “out,” it is not “available.” They don’t have it. So while they can’t sell me the generic, they must anyway charge me the full price for the brand name.
$198. And I can’t go without this medication, and shopping around won’t help, because the generic apparently is not “available” to the public yet.
That is under the heading of “unconscionable” to me. And again, thank God I have insurance, but what if I didn’t?
My latest favorite was for a prescription that charged a “per refill” price. The doctor prescribed a single pill to see if it would have an effect so we wouldn’t “waste our money”
Single pill price with insurance? $65
Full bottle of 60 pills with insurance? $65
Would they just prescribe the whole bottle to save us a return visit and additional refill payment if the single pill did work? Hell no!
God-damned DC traffic. Here I go, back out into it for the second time today.
If my doctor prescribed a single pill for me to try–I’d seriously switch doctors.
That’s what the samples are for that the drug reps give them–for them to give to patients for a trial period of time.
Jeez… I guess things have changed. When my dad was in business (as a vet), he’d usually say, “It’s probably (x). It could be (y), and we could test for that, but it would cost you (z).” Usually people opted not to test, but honestly… Do vets think they’ll be looked down upon if they give options now? Sad.
My own mini-rant: Use our building facilities if you LIVE IN THIS BUILDING. If not, kindly bugger off. I have enough issues with the ‘security’ door being left ajar. I do NOT need non-residents moving my laundry.
I hear you, this was a one-off referral doctor. We won’t be going back 
Just curious, would the single pill price have been lower without insurance? I have actually encountered situations where the full retail price was lower than the copay, so it is possible.
JUST as this was posted, I posted in the old mini-rant thread. Dammit. So, again, I have this fucking disgusting cold. My nose is stuffed, throat feels like someone scrubbed it with a brillo pad, AND my face is sore. I want to cut my head off, it hurts so damned bad.
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We’ve all complained about the stupid hinges on CD jewel cases, but I really think having one break on me as I am taking the plastic off of my new CD is excessive.
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Restaurants pretentious enough to list the prices as just integers (like this: osso bucco…20) piss me off. “Oh, look, we’re so snotty and expensive that none of our prices have cents in them.” It’s completely irrational but there it is.
Our president and his wife are the Obamas. They aren’t the Obama’s. Lose the fucking apostrophe, People.
I’m one of those complainers. They are using clear polystyrene, a remarkably brittle material, as has been known that SINCE THE NINETEEN SIXTIES!, and the design calls for it to carry the entire load of the hinge WITH NO SUPPORT EXCEPT AT THE NARROWEST, LEAST SUPPORTED POINT! Honest to God, they coulda extended the supported area half a fucking centimeter and it would not only work, but cost them the TINIEST FRACTION, IF THAT of a cubic centimeter in material. But no, the molds were made with no testing, especially no testing by lefties or people with one hand. The hallmark of bad design.
I’ve said it many times. LADIES!!! Ladies that go to the gym!!! I’m talking to YOU!
Listen carefully if you’re one of these:
The locker room benches are NOT your personal vanity table. Put your hockey bag sized gym bag, makeup bag, shampoo caddy, clothes, shoes, purse, laptop, and backpack either IN your locker or UNDER the damn bench! Take your 9 pounds of maybelline to the make up counter!
I sweat to God, there’s actually a young lady who does bring all or most of this stuff in all at once, she takes up about 5 feet of the locker room bench.
DAMN! Is it really that difficult to understand that these benches are for people to SIT on?
My cat does give a shit. In her litter box. When my kids remember to actually replenish the litter. Which explained the turdlets in various places all over the house two weeks ago. I have no idea where she piddled, but when it gets warmer, I suspect the house will reak.
Good God, Woman! $115 a month alone for migraine stuff is rape. I think you need to take a hostage.