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So, for the three people who aren't aware of this by now, I had myself sterilized in March. Since I had hysteroscopic sterilization rather than a ligation (Essure, the trade name, is safer and more effective than having one's tubes tied), I had to go in for a follow-up HSG in June. Here follows the annoyance of dealing with Hospital's billing department. This isn't really a rant, just a minor annoyance.

Round 1: In July, I receive a bill for $343. The bill states that Hospital has not received my insurance information, which is bullshit because I provided my current insurance card at the time services were rendered. While I do have $343, I would vastly prefer not to take it out of my savings, and I would also vastly prefer that my insurance pick it up, since my sterilization met my deductible for this year and this kind of thing is the reason why I carry insurance.

Round 2: I call the billing department, only to find that they have billed my Lol-Mart insurance. I explain that I don't have any coverage through that carrier anymore and haven't done since 2010, and that they should have a copy of my current insurance card on file. They can bill my insurance or they can eat $343, whichever. I provide them with claims information for my insurance, and am told that they will file a claim.

Round 3: I receive an adjusted bill for $12.69, since Hospital has billed my insurance. That's more like it! I mail a check for $12.69. Subsequently, my bank account shows that my check has cleared. Like an idiot, I think we're done here.

Round 4: I receive another bill for $12.69, which doesn't show anything different to the previous bill. WHAT FAGGOTRY IS THIS. Lolmom thinks it's due to the nature of their billing software, which is probably set to send out bills at certain intervals, and that it just crossed in the mail.

I mean, if I do in fact owe them another $12.69, I will gladly pay it, but I would like to make sure I do in fact owe them $12.69 before I do that. I would also like this to not wind up in collections over something that isn't my fault.
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Oh God we had this thunderstorm and the temperature dropped like 15 degrees (from the low 90s to 79 when I was driving home) and my skull is full of snot and I cannot stop sneezing and I'm breathing through my mouth and it's all so fucking horrible and the worst thing is I cannot call in tomorrow. Well I can but just because we can do something doesn't mean we should and it's only allergies, not contagion and plague or anything. I mean it's only going to be a four-day work week anyway.

So instead of doing anything useful or productive I spent my evening blowing my nose and looking at pictures of grilled cheese sandwiches on the Internet, which is arguably nutritionally better than eating a real one. Not that I can taste anything anyway.

Going upstairs to wash my face and pretend I have The Black Plague. Yay!
xifeng: (hoes doing crazy shit)
To whom it may concern:

I worked 2-10 today at work, most of it at the paystation, ergo mostly on my feet in thin-soled shoes. I conveniently don't have any arches in my feet so didn't feel it as much as some people would.

I am working 6:30-2:30 tomorrow, on Thanksgiving Day, which is The Holiday You Don't Fuck With. Seriously, there are like two holidays I give a shit about, and Thanksgiving is one of them. Notice that, while my scheduled hours are legally within the limits of the law, they do not allow me to get a full night's sleep. Also, I have to do laundry, which pretty much ensures that I won't get a full night's sleep.

I will then be working 4:45 to 2 on Friday.

Did I mention that I already hate my job to begin with?

Annoy me in any way, fuck with me in any way, or make any kind of request, no matter how reasonable you feel it is, and I will personally choke the shit out of you. With both hands. Whilst screaming obscenities in your face. I already have a short temper. The Least Wonderful Time Of The Year reduces it to hair-trigger. Oh, and when I get like this, I'm pretty much looking for an excuse. Don't push your luck. You are not safe.

The absolute earliest it might be safe to bother me is Sunday, but I make no promises. :D

I wish to fuck this were over,
l33
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I think I may be shaping up for another six-week period. Just when I thought I had stopped, too.

FML.
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Go ahead and ask me where the gravy is while I'm carrying the giant economy size of Feminine Hygiene Products under one arm. And while this sour look from having sore feet from standing for four and a half hours is still on my face. Ask. Go on and ask me where the gravy is, dumbfuck. I FUCKING DARE YOU.

Seriously, it is amazing what clearly visible Feminine Hygiene Products will protect you from. I would seriously contemplate always carrying them around, even when I'm not on the rag, but sometimes I just need a few small things.

Also, thanks to a glitch in my insurance company's system, my prescription coverage was denied and I had to pay full price for my meds this morning, much to my chagrin. I'm just glad I had the money. The pharmacy benefits people said to tell Lolgreens to run it again, and the tech at Lolgreens said I can get a refund once this is worked out, so thank God. Still, it is an extremely unpleasant surprise to have to spend $113 on meds that are usually around $18. (Nonetheless, what choice have I got? My next Depo appointment is tomorrow, and there is no interference with my contraception.)

In completely unrelated news, I am itchy and have taken to obsessively scratching my knees and elbows. This is likely dry skin (dry skin. In the middle of summer. HELLO SKIN WHAT IS YOUR MALFUNCTION), but still irritating, especially since normal people qualify for OPEC membership this time of year.

Other than that, not really cranky. Also, I am surrounded by more books than I deserve. :D
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1.) Shit, no. I hate it. I hate it so badly I'm not going to tell you what it is, and I rarely mention what it is unless it's necessary for some reason or another. I wish to God my parents hadn't inflicted it upon me; they meant well, and objectively it is a good name, but it's not who I am at all. I don't identify with the name anymore, and I think of myself as Chaya or l33, not my birth name. Let's just say that if you give your daughter a name you think is So Beautiful And Graceful And Refined, you're pretty much gunning for her to grow up and be squat, foul-mouthed, klutzy, sarcastic, and possessed of oddly specific interests. LET THIS BE A LESSON TO YOU.

Also, my WASPy given name is incongruous with my Yiddish surname, does not go, and does not fit me. Also also, I hate every single last nickname for my given name, and worse than that, I hate the fact that people apparently think they can call me whatever cutesy-wootsy little monosyllable they want, without having the decency to ask first. My experience has been that no matter how polite I am about saying that I don't go by X nickname, people still get butthurt. I get kind of touchy about this because a.) nicknames weren't used in our family when I was growing up; the lolmom calls X-chan and me by our full names, even though neither of us uses them, and b.) it has happened in situations where it shouldn't, like a job interview for fuck's sake. It's one thing if the person asks if I go by my full name or if I have a nickname; I don't mind that, because at least they're asking instead of making assumptions. The next person to engage in the latter, however, will get verbally stomped, and I don't care if they cry.

TL;DR: Uh, no, you bastards are calling me by MY preferred monosyllable, thanks.

2.) I do have the opportunity to change it, if I can scrape up enough for court and publication costs. In fact, because this is America and I can, I fully intend to scrape up enough for court and publication costs, and then change it. Christ alone knows when this is going to happen, but it will. Hopefully in the next year or two. (<--which I've said about a shitton of other things, admittedly)

3.) Chaya Leah. And you can all still call me l33, so nobody has to suffer from cognitive dissonance! OMG ISN'T THAT GREAT??? :D
xifeng: (hoes doing crazy shit)
GODDAMMIT INTERNET

GODDAMMIT

DO NOT GO OUT ON ME

DO NOT.

ASLDKFJAL;SDFJA;SDLJF FUCK YOU AT&T EAT A BALLSACK AND DIE IN A FIRE RAAAAAAAAAAAEG SO MUCH RAEG.

TL;DR: The Internet keeps blinking out at least once a week, at which time none of the land lines have a dialtone on the main line but there is a dialtone on the fax line, and I am becoming tired of this tomfoolery. This problem usually resolves itself after a day or so, but nonetheless is irksome while it lasts. The only acceptable explanation for it on this occasion, since we've already had a tech out, is "the weather is bad".

How is a man supposed to look at pr0n if he cannot get on the Internet. HOW I ASK YOU.
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Dear INDOT,

Eat a dick, seriously. Does it not occur to you that IN-66 is a major thoroughfare and most of us need it? No, heaven forfend. Seriously, you've torn it up at least a bazillion times over the past three years. Could you please just get it right?

OUR TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR YOUR GROSSLY INFLATED SALARIES YOU KNOW.

No love,
l33

(PS: brb going 2 library nau :DDDDD)
xifeng: (hoes doing crazy shit)
Dear AT&T,

Yes, I am in fact pretty sure that this is a line issue and not an equipment issue, because I doubt very much that I would be able to get on the Int0rbuttz if it were an issue of our modem being fried (yet again), and moreover, if it were one phone being out, I could credit the idea that yes, perhaps we need to replace the fucking phones like we've been talking about doing for a million years. However, all three are out, which points to an issue on YOUR end (especially since we DO have a dialtone on the fax line and we DO have Internet) and I am tired of going round and round dealing with your progressively less helpful phone monkeys, especially since this is not a good time to pull this shit on me. I don't know how I managed to not yell at the last one.

V. truly yours,
Wang Xi-feng, who has had plenty thank you

SHIT

Mar. 9th, 2010 04:15 pm
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Essure is not covered by my insurance plan. I do not anticipate having $1500-$3K ever again in the course of my life, and sadly I am not kidding.

Fuck you, Lol-Mart.
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On the up side, if these are the worst injustices to befall me, I have it pretty good. )

Not technically a complaint, but it does make everything all better:

Dear Gerst Haus,

I love you. Never change. Corona + lime = OTP theirloveissomood-altering.

Please continue to keep your highly awesome and extensive list of imported beer,
l33
xifeng: (Livia Drusilla is disgruntled)
1.) For the three people who didn't find out the hard way, XFO is on the fritz because I haven't renewed the hosting package because I haven't got my refund yet. So basically mail sent there will not be delivered. So try legioxxvictrix AT yahoo DOT com instead if you need me, kthx, or if you want to be SURE I'll look at your e-mail, ask nicely for the S00par Sekrit Address.

2.) This entire week has sucked large, hairy monkey balls, and I will be so so SO glad when it is over. THE FACT THAT YOUR FAX MACHINE IS A PIECE OF CRAP DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN EMERGENCY ON MY PART. Seriously, if anyone notices an appalling deterioration in my attitude, as though for some reason I just really cannot be arsed with someone's fucking land titles anymore, that is why.

3.) Will be gone for at least part of the weekend (I'm doing the South-Central Indiana Petite Tour: INDIANAPOLIS - BLOOMINGTON), so if you need anything, feel free to call the ol' cell. Or feel free to wait, whichever.

4.) Okay, so I don't do Gundam Wing fandom outside of having watched a few episodes back when it was on Cartoon Network and we still got Cartoon Network, but this has been driving me crazy. Does anyone BESIDES [livejournal.com profile] jurhael (who was there with me in the trenches, pointing at the stupid) remember an unbelievable Mary Sue called Black Suck Sylke? Her site is no longer extant, but can be pulled up through the wonders of the Wayback Machine (punch in "www.treizeandblacksylke.com"). I am sure there is more to the Suedom than meets the eye, and in my fruitless searches I have found hints of wanksplosion and Teh Crazy here and there, but not enough corroboration to piece together a reliable history. And you know how I am with history projects.

Also, I understand that Black Sylke appeared in some deviant and raunchy adult fanfiction, and if anybody remembers where it was archived or can find me a copy, I will grant you deviant and raunchy sexual favors (within reason, as flatly refuse to perform some acts). It is possible that I would find said fanfic rather tame and vanilla, but hey, can't fault a man for trying.

k, l33 out.

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