healthcare companies hurt us and themselves

I just don't get it. I see where being corner-cutting assholes keeps the money on the side of the insurance companies. But sometimes that Scrooge behavior costs them too.

Deny coverage and some, like me, will foot the bill for that service or prescription. Some, though won't pay, and then come knocking at insurance's door when the problem worsens or beget new issues.

Our healthcare must make the shift to recognizing the health and cost savings of preventive care. I just wish insurance companies would do more than just pay lip service to this idea. If they did, they might find themselves saving money in the end, with fewer costly surgeries.

day two is good up

Pink hat
Originally uploaded by theCallowQueen.

On day two of our Japan Adventure, we hit the fish market and hit some museums with some nice walks through parks. Oh, and I saw my first Native American band playing in Japan (it would not be my last during our trip).

I'm in the system

So I had KU send the art institute my transcripts when I enrolled there.

My account number on the bill was my old student ID number.

I wanted to pay my bill online, so I had to get an online ID. They offered up springs, my old email address. And then asked me for my current email address, and said anything sent to my old KU address would now be forwarded on to that email.

My old KU email address couldn't possibly still work, could it? I thought I had to give money to the school and get an alumni email address.

The test: I went into Facebook and clicked to sign up for the Kansas network. I put in my old KU email addy and then went to my current address to see if the request would be forwarded.

It worked!

This is trivial, I know. I have no need for the additional email address. But my workday was pretty bland.

But maybe I should be creeped out by the fact that KU has kept all this information on me...

Trip pictures up on Flickr

Golden fish
Originally uploaded by theCallowQueen.

Day 1 of my trip to Japan is up on Flickr. Enjoy!

i have returned

The trip was good. Spending the trip with countingpigs was good. Getting to see 42destune was good.

Being home is good. Being back to work is tolerable.

I took about a thousand pictures. I'll let you know when I've posted them on Flickr.

In not good news, the G-man's car was stolen out of our parking lot night before last. It was parked in the slot right beneath my bedroom window. Troubling.

i have arrived

I feel a little overwhlemed. Things are more foreign here to me than anywhere else I've ever been.

I felt accomplished leaving the airport and changing traings, but then I got lost on foot. The addresses are done much differently here. And figuring out exactly where one is at is a complicated task when street sings are lacking. A very nice woman on her way home from work helped me along my way. And now I'm here, I'm safe, and I'm very tired.

I hope countingpigs arrives soon; then I can go to bed.

in a fog

It was hazy out this morning on my drive to work. I was running late leaving for work. Please, campus security, say you found my laptop. I left my computer in the classroom last night. I couldn't think clearly all evening. I was grateful we were covering a topic I already knew about. I was tired after I got home from work. I got caught in the rain on my bike. I was worried that it might rain.

i want to ride my bicycle

I rode my bicycle to work this morning. Now I just hope the rain stays away.

working question

A question to all of you who know me: Do you think I've become a workaholic?

everybody's doing it

We all get the feeling that everyone seems to be doing something that we're not, and then we get that feeling that we should be doing it too. Then "should" becomes a "want." Perhaps it is a valid want, but perhaps it's just herd think.

Everybody's getting married these days. Everybody's having babies. Everybody's buying houses. Maybe I should be too. And then: I want that too.

There's another side to this. The status of engaged, just married, pregnant, new parent, homeowner, or whatever wasn't even on your radar before you yourself reached the point of wanting it for yourself.

There are always going to be pregnant women walking around. This isn't new. They didn't just start popping out of the woodwork. You just didn't notice them before because you weren't thinking about babies and children as a part of your own life.

And it's not a coincidence that if you're thinking for proposing to your girl that you've been hearing more commercials about rings and jewelry stores. The ads were always there; you're just listening with new ears.

Do I have a point? Not really. I get the feeling the same as everyone else. But I hope I can buck the heard mentality--and listen and be true to myself.