I actually accomplished stuff today!
Aug. 6th, 2004 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Damn I'm good. Today, I went to the post office, did battle with my cell phone company (and triumphed!) registered for a class with the local community college, and sorted out a situation with my HMO. Also, I worked.
Okay, it sounds less impressive than it seemed while I was making all the calls. Still, I'm proud of myself.
Glad I never worked in personal customer service, though. This one guy attempted to ask the clerk a question, freaked out when she told him he needed to pay for whatever he used, walked back to the line to wait to talk to the other person on duty, and informed me, audibly, "I hate that fuckin' bitch." I refused to make eye contact with him. No wonder postal workers are so disgruntled. At that time, the other one was attempting to deal with a woman who was very, very unhappy that her mail wasn't getting delivered to her when she'd given everyone the wrong zip code.
And now I'm finally taking advantage of my health insurance. The last time I went to a doctor (for the eye thing I posted about earlier) it was on a minor-emergency basis, and I went to the family doctor. I never got set up with the one the HMO assigned because I don't believe in checkups. The family's never had insurance, and when I was at college the health center was cheap but the waits were hellacious (of course I just walked in. Make an appointment? What is this thing you speak of?) so I just don't go to doctors unless I feel like I'm going to die. My eye thing is sort of back, and that's my reason to seek medical help, though now it looks less like my eyeballs are melting and more like I have allergies. Whatever. It needs to be done. For various reasons. One of which they brought up. The woman on the phone spoke very loudly, as many people do, and the conversation went a bit like this...
Her: SO DO YOU WANT HIM TO DO YOUR PAP SMEARS, OR DO YOU WANT TO BE REFERRED TO A GYNECOLOGIST?
Me: (thinking, "damn, this office is quiet") Gynecologist...
Not that anyone in the office could hear HER. I'm hoping they set me up an appointment (with a FEMALE, thank you) while I'm there, because if it falls to me I'll put it off for six months because I suck like that. I'm way overdue, and I know that's stupid of me, and I know all about the reasons... I just put stuff off.
Meh. The class is Japanese I. Three hours, not five - weird. Good for my purposes, though. Of course it's not going to make me able to actually speak Japanese, or make any real use of it at all. It might prove handy with doujinshi and fansites for about half of what I'm interested in, since I know the Final Fantasy characters are almost always named in katakana (except for Eiko, I guess?) But it should be interesting. I miss learning stuff. And maybe I'll meet some new people, which would be nice, because I'm getting awfully sick of the people I know. Watch all my classmates be the kind of pagans who claim that dragons exist. We have those around here too, in addition to the Christians. Pagans, I mean. Not dragons. Stupid pagans. Possibly intelligent pagans too, but I have no reason to believe such creatures exist, and plenty of reason to believe they don't. Just like dragons!
If you ARE an intelligent pagan, speak up so I'll know to stop bashing your beliefs. If you think dragons exist, on the other hand, let me know where you live so I can beat you to death before you have a chance to breed.
Before I start feeling too superior, though, I should admit I forgot my Social Security number today. Also, I'm at home on Friday night telling the entire internet about my errands, but you knew that part. If I were fully conscious I might think better of posting this, but I'm not. Whee!
Okay, it sounds less impressive than it seemed while I was making all the calls. Still, I'm proud of myself.
Glad I never worked in personal customer service, though. This one guy attempted to ask the clerk a question, freaked out when she told him he needed to pay for whatever he used, walked back to the line to wait to talk to the other person on duty, and informed me, audibly, "I hate that fuckin' bitch." I refused to make eye contact with him. No wonder postal workers are so disgruntled. At that time, the other one was attempting to deal with a woman who was very, very unhappy that her mail wasn't getting delivered to her when she'd given everyone the wrong zip code.
And now I'm finally taking advantage of my health insurance. The last time I went to a doctor (for the eye thing I posted about earlier) it was on a minor-emergency basis, and I went to the family doctor. I never got set up with the one the HMO assigned because I don't believe in checkups. The family's never had insurance, and when I was at college the health center was cheap but the waits were hellacious (of course I just walked in. Make an appointment? What is this thing you speak of?) so I just don't go to doctors unless I feel like I'm going to die. My eye thing is sort of back, and that's my reason to seek medical help, though now it looks less like my eyeballs are melting and more like I have allergies. Whatever. It needs to be done. For various reasons. One of which they brought up. The woman on the phone spoke very loudly, as many people do, and the conversation went a bit like this...
Her: SO DO YOU WANT HIM TO DO YOUR PAP SMEARS, OR DO YOU WANT TO BE REFERRED TO A GYNECOLOGIST?
Me: (thinking, "damn, this office is quiet") Gynecologist...
Not that anyone in the office could hear HER. I'm hoping they set me up an appointment (with a FEMALE, thank you) while I'm there, because if it falls to me I'll put it off for six months because I suck like that. I'm way overdue, and I know that's stupid of me, and I know all about the reasons... I just put stuff off.
Meh. The class is Japanese I. Three hours, not five - weird. Good for my purposes, though. Of course it's not going to make me able to actually speak Japanese, or make any real use of it at all. It might prove handy with doujinshi and fansites for about half of what I'm interested in, since I know the Final Fantasy characters are almost always named in katakana (except for Eiko, I guess?) But it should be interesting. I miss learning stuff. And maybe I'll meet some new people, which would be nice, because I'm getting awfully sick of the people I know. Watch all my classmates be the kind of pagans who claim that dragons exist. We have those around here too, in addition to the Christians. Pagans, I mean. Not dragons. Stupid pagans. Possibly intelligent pagans too, but I have no reason to believe such creatures exist, and plenty of reason to believe they don't. Just like dragons!
If you ARE an intelligent pagan, speak up so I'll know to stop bashing your beliefs. If you think dragons exist, on the other hand, let me know where you live so I can beat you to death before you have a chance to breed.
Before I start feeling too superior, though, I should admit I forgot my Social Security number today. Also, I'm at home on Friday night telling the entire internet about my errands, but you knew that part. If I were fully conscious I might think better of posting this, but I'm not. Whee!
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Date: 2004-08-07 08:49 pm (UTC)We have "witches" around here, but none of yet claimed to that dragons are real...
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Date: 2004-08-08 08:37 am (UTC)