22
June

Wait, What?

I know that I have complained in the past about doctors who don’t call to remind me about appointments. (Ahem, Mental Health Center.)  Well, last week, I got a phone call from the optometrist that I had seen a few times about 3 years ago.  My old glasses were ordered through that optometrist, so I guess that they felt that I needed to come back in and get my eyes checked again.  I guess that they felt they were doing me a favor.

There’s a problem with their “favor”, though.  First of all, like I said, I was a patient there 3 years ago.  I had an appointment 2 years ago when my eyes started having the Sjögren’s/dryness/pseudo-pink eye problem.  I cancelled that appointment and started seeing the ophthalmologist, at the recommendation of some of the other doctors I was seeing at the time.  Now I get my eyes checked by that doctor and that doctor alone.  So, in essence, I have a doctor.

Secondly, I don’t like it when medical offices decide that they should schedule or re-schedule your appointment without even telling you.  If they are going to make an appointment for you, then shouldn’t the appointment fit within your schedule?  What good does it do to make an appointment for someone that they (a.) don’t know about and (b.) can’t make because of their own schedule?

Finally, if you were going to make an appointment for someone, then how about giving them more than 3 or 4 days notice.  I might have wanted to see the doctor, if circumstances were different.  If I had wanted to see the doctor, then I should have been given enough time to get it on the schedule.  I should have been given enough time so that I didn’t feel like the appointment was just being forced upon me.

I would have cancelled it when they made the call last week, but the call was made when I was half-asleep and I didn’t register that the name for the doctor was not one I was currently seeing.  I had to wait until after the weekend was over to call them back and leave a message (because they don’t pick up the phone–EVER) and tell them that I wouldn’t be making that appointment.  I also told them to not bother making me another appointment, since I was someone else’s patient now.

I just hope that they really don’t decide to reschedule this appointment or, worse, charge me for an appointment that I didn’t make and didn’t want.

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21
April

What’s Going On

I’m going to have to take a class this summer.  I hate that.  I’m going to be taking statistics in the morning, when I should be sleeping in.  I was going to get a C in the class, which would have led to me losing my scholarship.  I can’t do that.  I would’ve waited until the fall to take the class, but that would put me with the same teacher and I would make the same mistakes.  This way, I’ll end up with a different teacher, one who is rumored to be easy.  I need easy.  I need good grades.  I need a high GPA so that I can graduate with honors and easily get into grad school.

I got Medicare, which I didn’t expect.  Now I can go back to my old doctor.  With Medicaid, I was having to go to a clinic where they didn’t know anything about me or how to treat me, and I was getting a new doctor every time that I went in.  Now I get to go see someone who has known me since I was a baby.  I like that idea better than the one where I’m with total strangers who know nothing about me.

I keep having internal “fights” with my Advanced Comp. class.  Some of the members, one in particular, seem to be so ignorant.  It’s infuriating.  I am so glad that that class is almost over.  I hate going in there and trying to keep my mouth shut.  I want to argue, but I can’t.  Every time I argue, I’m the only one arguing my position.  No one else seems to agree with me.  I’m used to that, but it’s hard when they act superior to me because they have “knowledge” that I don’t have.  I can cite different studies and legitimate sources, while this one person cites groups that are known to be completely biased and untrustworthy.  They’re the kind that say completely screwed up things about evolution.  I’m okay with someone not agreeing with evolution, but when you’re making up things, like there being dragons that were slayed by Adam to explain fossils, that’s where I draw the line.

I’m a bit nervous when it comes to the whole announcement time of TV shows that comes out in a few weeks.  I keep checking to see what the odds are that Conviction will get picked up, and it doesn’t look all that great for the show.  I’ve grown quite attached to that show, and I don’t want to see it go away.  There are some sources, like the NY Times, that say it has a chance, but others, ones that I’ve never heard of, say that it has little to no chance of being picked up for next season.  I guess that I’m being ridiculous about this whole thing, but I have no life, so TV is very important in my lack of a life.

I have a special thing I have to go to tomorrow that the Graduating Seniors in the Social Work department are throwing for the people who are supposed to graduate next Spring.  I hate the thought of being up here at school on a Saturday.  Saturdays are supposed to be one of my days away from school.  I need time to relax, but I guess that isn’t going to happen tomorrow.  I can’t miss the thing because it’s mandatory, so no skipping is allowed.  The only way I could get out of it is if I had a legitimate excuse.  I don’t have one, so I must go.

Oh, I can now where “normal people sized” clothes.  It’s really cool.  I’m still losing weight, or at least losing size, which doesn’t make sense because I’m always eating because I’m always hungry.  It doesn’t make sense, but who am I to question or complain about what’s going on?

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1
March

The Oscars

The Oscars were far too predictable last night. The Lord of the Rings won way too many awards. Admittedly, I haven’t seen ROTK yet, and I don’t really WANT to see it…but 11 awards? That ties it with Titanic (my all-time favorite) and Ben Hur. Quite frankly, I don’t think it should be in the company of those two movies. I mean, it won the award for Best Song, and it didn’t even have the BEST song. I think it just won that because the song was from the Lord of the Rings, so it got an automatic vote. And Johnny and Keshia didn’t win…instead Charlize and Sean won. I’m sure Charlize and Sean did good jobs, but honestly…I would’ve rather seen Johnny and Keshia win. The only two awards that I was happy about were Best Original Screenplay (Sofia Coppola) and Best Supporting Actress (Renee Zellweger).

Plugs: Natasha, Alx, Ayla, Chloe, Erin, Sunny, Aimee

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25
February

All new skin

I did an all new skin today. I’m still counting on y’all to submit your entries for the skin/layout contest. So far, I’ve only gotten 2 entries.

BTW – If you leave a comment on the site and don’t see it, please don’t submit it again. I have received your comment…its just not showing up.

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25
February

Everything

Everything should be back up and running now. I’m going to have to re-add a lot of my blog entries manually, but I can deal with that. Apparently, when changing WP versions, you’re actually supposed to get errors…bleh.

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