So, while the hospital I visited in January is currently deciding if I'm enough of a charity case to waive some of my charges, the ER physician (who charges separately from the hospital itself) just sent me a bill. On the one hand, I do get the contractual readjustment through my health insurance company Read More...
So, I took a little much-needed hiatus from blogging after having an utterly horrendous, hate-filled day that made me want to never use the internet again. I do want to try to maintain a regular schedule of posting and I think I have been doing better, but after that day I really, really needed a break or I was going to completely self-implode Read More...
I just thought of a new way to shave a few cents off my grocery bill. I'm going to call home, and ask my parents to mail me my diploma. Then I will tear it into strips and use it as toilet paper.
So I've been playing a lot of Halo with Internet Friends with Benefits lately, and it's been making me really angry. This is interesting for two reasons. One is that I think my anger goes a tiny bit deeper than Halo, but I'll get back to that in a minute. The other interesting thing is that I've started to categorize a few alternatives to ragequitting Read More...
So, I really didn't want this blog to turn into a whiny flood of bitterness and angst the economy (again), but then I realized...why fight it? Because dammit, I am so fucking angry. Last week, I called the unemployment office. See, I'm pretty sure I don't actually qualify for unemployment, not having worked full time for long enough, but I figured there was no harm in finding out what the rules were Read More...
Hey blogosphere, I bet you thought I died, didn't you? Yeah, I disappeared for A WHOLE MONTH, and I was going to spend this entry giving a bunch of excuses and then summarizing everything that I have wanted to write about in the intervening time but TOTALLY FAILED TO WRITE ABOUT. But then I realized, God that is so unoriginal Read More...
Yesterday I was getting my bike off the porch to get ready to head out to Arabic class when I happened to glance across the way towards the nearest building in our apartment complex and saw...nothing! The second floor apartment directly across from us was completely empty. Not only that, considering yesterday was the 5th of the month, it had probably been empty for 5 whole days and I hadn't noticed Read More...
I dream relatively often, but they're usually just random nonsense not really worth repeating. (Except that time I dreamt that Sarah Palin framed me as a cocaine addict. I like talking about that one, because I can literally say, "That woman gives me nightmares.") But last week I had a really interesting dream that was clearly significant Read More...
Once upon a time, I had an awesome blog. I wrote snarky things about my fascinating life as a high school student and cursed a lot. It earned me a job as a paid blogger for the MIT admissions website, because the communications director thought it was hilarious that I was so angsty. The whole thing was lost in the great server crash of whatever year that was, and I have endeavored in vain to create a new blog that was in any way as awesome as the old one Read More...
So I've been out here in the Bay Area for about 3 weeks now, which is way too long to go without an update when you're moving across the country and starting a new job and all. Here's kinda sorta what's been going on with my life in general:LinkedIn now identifies me as "Laura Nicholson, Design Engineer at Inventor Labs Read More...
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