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oh man, i just watched michael moore's 'sicko'... deeply, deeply upsetting. i guess when you've lived your whole life within that kind of system you're kind of used to it. but living in a country where healthcare is essentially free for all, i can't even begin to comprehend what it's like in the US. i mean, i complain about having to pay $45 for doctor's visit, but if i had an accident a trip to the emergency room is completely free; if i got appendicitis the operation is free.

it really scares to me think about getting sick or being in an accident while i'm living in the states.

This is why you work for the government if you can. If you're me.

Or sell out and go into a profession that has more cash than sense (hi dere softwarez).

your healthcare might be hell expensive, but damn your electricity is cheap. when jordan told me he pays around $15 p/month i couldn't believe it. even now, in summer, our power bill (between four of us) is around $250 p/month, and electricity rates are still climbing on a regular basis.

rubyredd have you ever swam with moko the dolphin?

moko the dolphin?? never heard of him, but there was opo (i think) the dolphin awhile back.

'moko' is a maori facial tattoo. FYI.

HE SAVED TWO PYGMY WHALES.

awww i just read the article.

i can't believe this stuff makes international news.

$15 per month for electricity implies that Jordan may light his home using candles

I was going to say! We keep our house at 68 degrees F during the day and Really Fucking Cold at night; our last heating/electricity bill was $350. Of course it is ridiculously cold here.

As for the health care thing, you really need to have insurance. It's expensive, it sucks, lots of people want to change it... but lots of people don't.

When 4lex was born 6 weeks early, for example, we wound up paying about $99.00 total for his birth, the ambulance ride, my 2 day hospital stay (complete with epidural and about a million doctors and nurses) and his 21 day hospital stay. We had great insurance. If we hadn't had any, we would never have recovered financially from that event: we looked at all the bills and it would have been $100,000.00. This is 1998, mind you.

eh, I don't pay heating on our apartment and our electricity is only $17/person. my friends had a $600 (gas) heating bill for the month of January, tho.

oh by the way guys I made dean's list. give me cookie.

$15 per month for electricity implies that Jordan may light his home using candles

Or he could just have an apartment. That's about all I pay per month.

yeeah living in a closet!

huh. so what you are saying is that i shouldn't leave all my lights and appliances on all day?

what if my cat gets lonely?

my mom leaves her tv on so the dog doesn't get lonely.

huh. so what you are saying is that i shouldn't leave all my lights and appliances on all day?

Not unless you are simultaneously running the heat and the A/C at full blast. That way they can learn peaceful coexistence.

I actually walk around looking for things to unplug, in a hopeless effort to spend less on that bill.

xpost jessie - congratulations on making the dean's list!

I am sorry that I do not have a cookie for you, though. ;_;

bumping the thread bump

jessie - is your show on this afternoon?

nope, spring break!

LAZY

lazy cookie

I want my spring break! So I suppose I should write more on my "paper."

Okay, here is an example of why APA formatting is just insane:

"If, and only if, each issue of a journal begins on page 1, give the issue number in parentheses immediately after the volume number."

So... you're going to look at every other issue of the journal EVER just to be sure that they didn't get all experimental for a few months and start on page 3 or something? Who makes this stuff up?

My mom leaves the television on for the dog when she goes out of an evening, too. Otherwise the dog gets angry and pees on her shower curtain.

hahaha. And I think I get annoyed when I miss Lost.

I have realised to my utter shock (I have never really synched up with Lost) that one of the two LA brats at my college who used to hang out together playing at being Gatsby (seriously, think spats and plus-fours and water added to whisky in a dorm room re-furnished with art deco I HAS PICS) 'grew up' to be JJ Abrams.

That is CRAZY. All of it!

Makes sense, though.

The craziest stuff always does, somehow.

For instance, the fact that your pants are made of ostriches.

SLC filled to the max with LA brats when I was there; JJ's partner in crime was the son of Stanley Donen. Who was even worse than JJ as used actual brilliantine on his hair.

Leopold and Loeb Go to College!

xpost Stay out of my pants, Ned!

*YOU'RE* the one raising ostriches for apparel!

is that what you name your privates?

"ostriches" would be an odd codeword, but I encourage everyone to adopt it.

Imagine if Spitzer had gone to a place called the Ostriches Club.

HISTORY WOULD HAVE BEEN CHANGED

"And how do you like your ostriches?"

"...plucked."

i am speechless

SO MANY LEVELS OF WRONG

haha xpost

wau