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21861. arkymalarky - 5/26/2007 4:35:12 PM You and Judith are so BAD No! 21862. poipual - 5/26/2007 9:31:06 PM by the by, arky, Evie and I loved Branson. We're so square and "patriotic." Pierce Arrow had us saying the pledge. 21863. arkymalarky - 5/26/2007 10:09:54 PM I've never been, but I'm not surprised you loved it. My very-ultra-liberal SIL and her husband love it. My very-ultra-liberal Bro has played there several times and one of his best friends is a musician/emcee there (if he still works there--I can't remember if he's still there). 21864. betty - 5/26/2007 11:09:45 PM Mags,
graduation was wonderful. The History department has a reputation for being iconoclastic. Some years they perform wacky songs or have swordfights or do re-enactments of war battles. This year they had a quiz show. It was fun.
I wore a colorful below the knee knit dress and a little black jacket. blah. but whatever. my parents took Weed and I out to diner. I had grilled trout, it matched my dress, blah.
I have spent the week relaxing, drinking and dancing. and working, but we'll ignore that part and pretend I have been in a protracted bliss.
21865. betty - 5/26/2007 11:10:50 PM Arky,
Cigna is a very fine company. I used to work for them. 21866. alistairconnor - 5/27/2007 10:54:47 AM Congratulations on the graduation, Betty. What do you do next? You've already got a job... Can you get a life now? 21867. Ulgine Barrows - 5/28/2007 11:01:20 AM Well, I got knocked up when I was 19 and had Blue Cross/Blue Shield. This was back in the 80s.
My mom had bought me student insurance, but they said I wasn't covered under the family plan, since I wasn't married, and was pregnant.
I've hated BC/BS since. I paid them money for years, just to keep my credit clean.
I hope the man that turned down my claim burns in hell.
It was an ectopic pregnancy, and I almost died.
What the fuck is insurance for, if not that.
21868. Ulgine Barrows - 5/28/2007 11:27:33 AM What bad manners I have!
Congratulations, betty.
I hope you don't have Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurance. 21869. alistairconnor - 5/28/2007 12:18:10 PM Ulgine, you're a poster girl for why private health insurance sucks. I hate it passionately.
But I'm a foreigner and a socialist, so what would I know. 21870. arkymalarky - 5/28/2007 4:05:56 PM I agree with both of you. I only wish it weren't a holiday weekend so I could make the ranting phone calls I want to make. But maybe it's better that it is so I will be more reasonable tomorrow.
I can't figure out why she was denied, her doctor's office can't figure it out, and they won't say unless you write a letter requesting they send information to her doctor's office. Or some such crap. It's so complicated I'll have to call and get the steps from them. It has to be a letter from you to them, not your doctor, and has to go back through the doctor and back to you.
And unfortunately, Cigna doesn't seem to have any offices in AR. We're VERY weak wrt insurance availability here. BCBS is pretty much a monopoly. I have it because it's all I can get for a decent price where I work, but next year I'm looking into changing to another company of about three on our list. 21871. wonkers2 - 5/28/2007 4:14:31 PM Private health insurance companies specialize in not insuring people who need health insurance and avoiding payment whenever they can. 21872. betty - 5/28/2007 4:29:14 PM sorry to hear cigna is not in Arkansas...
I will actually be looking for a job this month. I make about one hundred dollars more a month than my rent, I have been living on student loans for the past four years. I'm thinking about trying to find a paralegal position and pretending that I have no immediate plans to go to grad school next year. Unless I find a job in Ireland or Canada or some other English speaking heavan of commies.
And no worries, I don't have BC because I don't have any insurance (truly, america is the greatest country in the world).
In terms of "getting a life", I plan on training for a half marathon, writing a screen play (as part of script frenzy) and gardening with my Weed girl. I am so ambivelant about "relationships" right now, but if I could find a nice pool boy to tend my bathtub, that could be nice. 21873. judithathome - 5/28/2007 5:28:06 PM a nice pool boy to tend my bathtub, that could be nice
So that's what they're calling it these days! 21874. robertjayb - 5/28/2007 8:55:44 PM Donors Choice...
DonorsChoose is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack.
Here, teachers submit ideas for materials or experiences that their students need to learn.
Arky, have you heard of this? Maybe you and/or your colleagues would want to try for something for your school. In your spare time, of course.
21875. alistairconnor - 5/28/2007 9:15:05 PM Ah relationships! Tell me about it. I have come to the interim conclusion that I must keep my relationships secret from my children, and vice versa. Well not secret, but separate. 21876. robertjayb - 5/28/2007 10:19:15 PM An intriguing observation, alistair. Does a story go with it? 21877. betty - 5/28/2007 10:27:41 PM I have sold a gob of furniture today. I'm going to leave work in about thirty minutes and celebrate dead soldiers the way all red blooded americans do...by eating some grilled Maki and drinking a lot of gin and tonic.
AC-my policy has been rather severe on the separation of child and lovers. They have to stick around a while before they meet my kid. I have introduced exactly one person to Weed and we had been dating for a year. I think once they have met the kids it winds up being this mad rush to permenancy that doesn't really help anyone. I am a one woman campaign against InstaFamily (I own that trademark). This whole idea of going on a family picnic for a first date is perverse. But then, I like to have sex on the first date...
21878. arkymalarky - 5/28/2007 10:38:17 PM Thanks Robert! Wabbit linked that a while back and I am definitely spreading the word around. People in our rural ed network, particularly in the Delta, can really use resources like that. I need to put the link up on our organization's website, as a matter of fact. 21879. alistairConnor - 5/28/2007 11:22:46 PM Robt -- I think Betty just about summed up the wisdom that I am slowly and painfully acquiring. I will no longer push my family onto a single person, nor be railroaded into someone else's family. Interesting experiences but I am not in a time or space for them. In about five years my daughters ought to be far enough along with their own love lives that I could consider building a household. 21880. alistairConnor - 5/28/2007 11:23:39 PM Ah betty is so wise.
Especially the tip about sex on the first date.
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