austin_tycho | (no subject)

Apparently, shit's just going to go wrong today.

There was the licorice candles.

Then, I'm looking through my bills, and there's some person I've never heard of who wants $250 for my hysterectomy. It turns out this person was a surgery assistant, and they were out of network. No one ever mentioned this person to me, and I wasn't given a chance to consent to having this out-of-network person assist with the surgery then charge me twice what my insurance company was willing to pay. Apparently they have since agreed to only charge what my insurance would cover, but since that happened after the surgery, they're sending me a bill. They mentioned that if I pay the bill within 30 days of the surgery (mind you, this was the first bill I've seen from this person, and I had the surgery in July) I'd get half off. My insurance already paid half of the bill, but that was after 30 days. Anyway, I'm appealing the bill, for all the good it'll do me.

We haven't been able to get into our mailbox for a week or so, and the lock was sticking pretty badly before that. They said 'squirt WD-40 in it' but that did nothing. So I had to go down to the post office to request that they fix it in person, and bring the title of the house. They said "okay." I go out today- there's a new lock. Where's the key? I was home all day, it could've been dropped by, but no. I called the main office, they told me to call the local office which is supposedly open 'til 6pm- no one's answered.

My dad has sent me two emails so far gloating about W's win, including one that mentions how he had a 'comfortable, decisive' majority, continuing on about how it's so obvious all of America wants W... Uh, how the hell is 51% any kind of comfortable? I sent him the IQ thing and the slave states link, just to be an asshole. I'm not in the mood for propaganda, so maybe this will shut down this sort of discourse. Childish, yeah. Sue me.

There's been several other minor annoyances today, all adding up to the Bummer of 1000 Cuts. Feh.