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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

Thank you all.

xxxxpost to sara: i talked to jordan this morning about the health insurance thing, and he got really upset because he's worried i won't come over! i told him it'll take more than shitty healthcare to put me off. but i am concerned about getting insurance because i had juvenile arthritis and there's diabetes in my family.

we're thinking maybe jordan will get some awesome job for a big outdoors company in british columbia so we can move to cananda.

also: CONGRATULATIONS JESSIE MONSTER!!!

Okay! To make you feel a bit calmer: you can have shitty health care or great health care here - either way, it costs a ton.

I'm not an expert on insurance (good forbid I go that route), but so far as I know, family history of a disease does not mean you will have trouble getting coverage. Hell, ovarian cancer is in my family and every year I have the "hmmmm, am I going to have prophylactic surgery and avoid this issue" debate. So far as I know, because there is a medical reason for me to choose to do the surgery (i.e. I have a known risk of ovarian cancer), insurance should cover it.

Um... am I making sense?

You have to have the insurance in the first place, though. If I was uninsured and was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, no insurance company in the world is going to take me and cover that anymore. On the other hand, if I was uninsured and was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, I think I could still buy coverage for unrelated stuff.

well, to calm jordan down i told him in the worst case scenario, if i got really sick and wasn't covered enough or whatever, i would just come home to nz. he just worries that if something bad happens in regards to my health it'll be his fault for not moving to nz instead of me moving to the US.

he also told me that denied claims aren't the norm, so i shouldn't get too worried about it.

so are there some insurance companies that have a better reputation than others? i feel like this is something i should post on the 'ask tombot' thread.

I feel sure that Tombot has strong opinions on insurance companies.

We've pretty much always had Blue Cross/Blue Shield through our jobs (well, now A's job) and it's okay. I feel like they are always trying to negotiate down what is offered in the benefits package to college employees, but this economy is kind of sucking for a lot of people, so it's unsurprising. A. was the chair of the benefits committee for a few years, so he might have more insight (although he cannot be lured to ILX).

It is also possible that health insurance companies are regional... also some medical providers only accept some companies. It's complicated!

I feel like I'm not helping here, but believe me, you can figure it out and make it work.

tombot doesn't get sick so tombot doesn't know. tombot definitely doesn't get sick in california and service tends to vary by region. I like kaiser where I live.

i have health insurance that i never use, although i am currently trying to convince Blue Cross that my insane wonky every which way but out wisdom teeth should be covered under health, not dental

this, after a former exes dentist dad who does my dentistry for free refused to do them because he liked me and couldn't knock me out for the procedure

O_O

John's string of former girlfriend's family's could probably provide everything you need, Rubyredd.

And YES John, you want to be out for that procedure.

Dental insurance is something we go without, just because the coverage always seems to suck.

btw, if I thought I could stand it, I would totally go to dental school for the $$$$.

yeah i'm worried about my wisdoms coming through while i'm there.