I have had this insurance for a total of 12 days and already I have found a few problems. Lets see, twelve days with four problems…I am looking at a problem every three days…just had to prove I can do math.
1) the dentist you have had for 25 years is no longer on your insurance.
2) a years worth of bi-weekly co-pays is cheaper than your deductable.
3) a needed monthly prescription has more than tripled the cost of the previous co-pay.
4) the only redeeming quality of the new insurance is that the change in cost of the prescription is that your co-pay for said prescription is higher than the total cost of the prescription so you don’t actually have to pay more than triple, only more than double…I guess this isn’t a redeeming quality of the insurance after all but rather the prices at the pharmacy.
So strike number 4 and I stand at twelve days and three problems, this leaves me with a problem every four days…hey, at least I can still do math.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
One of My Favorite Summer Moments
It isn't the best picture since it was on my phone, and I was much higher than this, but my sister took the picture so she probably wanted to show her kid off as the better swinger. ;)Sunday, September 19, 2010
Someone Thought of Me
A couple of my students brought this to me the other day. If you don't know what this means to me read my April Fools series starting with the old post linked here...http://hokapidia.blogspot.com/2009/04/rotten-tomato.html
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Why the Long Sleeves?
I don't know if I can write this to make it interesting, but it is a bit of what I have been going through the last week so I will make an attempt. The final conversation is supposed to be the funny part (or at the very least an excuse to write an update) if you make it through my whole lengthy introductions.
There are two things to keep in mind for this story.
#1 A week ago unbeknownst to me I was exposed to some kind of poisonous plant that began to cause a terrible reaction beginning Friday morning and continuing well into Monday afternoon. It wasn't until Saturday afternoon that I realized it was becoming quite severe and when I woke up Sunday morning with one eye bulging out of my head, until I could shower and get the swelling down, I even considered skipping church. At this point the rash was spreading faster than the pain and I realized it was only my vanity tempting me to skip church so I sucked up the possible humiliation and went anyway. By the time I left church I abandoned all Sabbath day holy attempts and made my way to the nearest Walgreen's Health clinic only to be told it was lunch time and to return in a few hours. Now I had to not only patronize Sabbath breaking stores once but twice and only to be rejected when it came to my insurance. Deciding that Monday was not so far away I decided to fore go the $75-150 out of pocket and wait to see my own doctor the next day. I called in sick to work, which was strange to me because I wasn't really sick rather in severe discomfort on my fore-arms and had a creeping redness from my neck to my face.
Long story only slightly shorter, he put me on a nice high dose of medication which may keep me wired and suggested Benadryl that may make me drowsy...needless to say I have been wired and tired all at once, a state I will not attempt to explain. (You might get a sense of it if you saw the state of my house right now, it is very uncharacteristically messy, and not in a small way). So, I took a day off work and have been back two. I have had my hair in a pony tale been wearing glasses to avoid any discomfort to my neck and eyes and as a courtesy to my students and others around me I have been wearing long sleeves despite the summer heat because the rash is quite disgusting...I will not post pictures but I did take some...they are just too gross. So that is the end of number one point... I know, finally.
#2 I have almost all freshmen this year. Normally this would be a bad thing as I have always preferred sophomores and because I have heard particularly bad things about this class. I have been pleasantly surprised, however, at how nice they are. Or maybe I have just been given the best of the class as an answer to many fervent prayers to do something to keep me in this profession for more than another year...but this is beside the point.
They like to ask questions about their surroundings and about their new teachers. The following conversation is by no means exact words but it does follow the general outline of what was said.
Student 1: "Does Mr. ABC have tattoos?"
Student 2: "Why would you ask that"
Me, the teacher: "That is an interesting question, now that you mention it I have never seen Mr. ABC in anything but long sleeves"
Student 2: "Well I have and he doesn't have any"
Student 1: "You have seen Mr. ABC in short sleeves?"
Teacher: "Well even if he did always wear long sleeves it doesn't mean he has tattoos, it might just be an attempt to cover up some grotesque rash."
Student 3: "EWE!"
There are two things to keep in mind for this story.
#1 A week ago unbeknownst to me I was exposed to some kind of poisonous plant that began to cause a terrible reaction beginning Friday morning and continuing well into Monday afternoon. It wasn't until Saturday afternoon that I realized it was becoming quite severe and when I woke up Sunday morning with one eye bulging out of my head, until I could shower and get the swelling down, I even considered skipping church. At this point the rash was spreading faster than the pain and I realized it was only my vanity tempting me to skip church so I sucked up the possible humiliation and went anyway. By the time I left church I abandoned all Sabbath day holy attempts and made my way to the nearest Walgreen's Health clinic only to be told it was lunch time and to return in a few hours. Now I had to not only patronize Sabbath breaking stores once but twice and only to be rejected when it came to my insurance. Deciding that Monday was not so far away I decided to fore go the $75-150 out of pocket and wait to see my own doctor the next day. I called in sick to work, which was strange to me because I wasn't really sick rather in severe discomfort on my fore-arms and had a creeping redness from my neck to my face.
Long story only slightly shorter, he put me on a nice high dose of medication which may keep me wired and suggested Benadryl that may make me drowsy...needless to say I have been wired and tired all at once, a state I will not attempt to explain. (You might get a sense of it if you saw the state of my house right now, it is very uncharacteristically messy, and not in a small way). So, I took a day off work and have been back two. I have had my hair in a pony tale been wearing glasses to avoid any discomfort to my neck and eyes and as a courtesy to my students and others around me I have been wearing long sleeves despite the summer heat because the rash is quite disgusting...I will not post pictures but I did take some...they are just too gross. So that is the end of number one point... I know, finally.
#2 I have almost all freshmen this year. Normally this would be a bad thing as I have always preferred sophomores and because I have heard particularly bad things about this class. I have been pleasantly surprised, however, at how nice they are. Or maybe I have just been given the best of the class as an answer to many fervent prayers to do something to keep me in this profession for more than another year...but this is beside the point.
They like to ask questions about their surroundings and about their new teachers. The following conversation is by no means exact words but it does follow the general outline of what was said.
Student 1: "Does Mr. ABC have tattoos?"
Student 2: "Why would you ask that"
Me, the teacher: "That is an interesting question, now that you mention it I have never seen Mr. ABC in anything but long sleeves"
Student 2: "Well I have and he doesn't have any"
Student 1: "You have seen Mr. ABC in short sleeves?"
Teacher: "Well even if he did always wear long sleeves it doesn't mean he has tattoos, it might just be an attempt to cover up some grotesque rash."
Student 3: "EWE!"
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Other Excuses
I have been working on some home improvement Here is a teaser picture.
But I was interrupted by a tree down.
I didn't really think to take a picture of the tree after it had fallen but here it is after the clean up and after 7 bags had already been hauled away. Even with work back in full swing I am keeping very busy. 
Saturday, July 3, 2010
One of the Reasons I Haven't Blogged Lately
In addition to yard work, deep cleaning, traveling and trying to stay cool in an un-air conditioned house (until June 29th) this has been one of my major projects.
Now if I could only figure out how to get all that black glue off I could get on to more exciting things like painting base boards and weeding my patio.
Now if I could only figure out how to get all that black glue off I could get on to more exciting things like painting base boards and weeding my patio.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Question of the Day
Sometimes I wonder why I am the Spanish teacher. A few weeks ago we were telling a story and we decided to use a bull as a character in the story. I insisted the part must be played by a boy (I get confused as to who is who if I let them play opposite roles). They couldn't understand why it had to be a boy so I had to explain that all bulls are male...this was huge news to them. What was worse is most of them didn't know that cows are female and were amazed and somewhat unbelieving as I was explaining it to them. One student finally accepted what I was saying as she pondered the fact that all cows have udders.The wonder doesn't stop there...today a student asked me "how many legs do chickens have?"
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