I had to take a Health Assessment today for work insurance coverage. In the age of a black president, equal marriage protests in all 50 states, and female vice presidents taken seriously enough to get 40+% of the vote… well, let’s just say I was disappointed.
First we had question #36, which lists some illnesses they’d like to know if you suffer.
As you can see, your choices are Cancer, Asthma, Diabetes, Stroke, and… Menopause?
Um, that’s a hereditary thing, right?
Next up, they want to know your relationship status.
I know that the background here is that statistically, people in long term committed relationships are healther than people who aren’t. But, don’t you think it’s a little 50s of them to require that you be Married, Alone, or… Other?
This blog post contains no photos of fall leaves.
Not Meat Alternatives, this is Alternative Meat. It paints its fingernails black and skips school on Friday.
As seen at the Paramount.. it’s SEASONAL, got it!?!?
Seen in a bathroom in a restaurant in Kirkland
Taken this evening.
Discount sign at Jasons local Korean market.
Caught one. Woke up this morning to find one dead rodent on the patio outside the door.
I’m sorry, little rat, that your poor nose had to get smooshed in the trap in order that my parsley and spinach might live. Next lifetime, try eating something a little closer to the ground, I don’t think those ground dwellers mind as much.
okay that's it, I am done with the patient tenant routine!!!!
A note today from my apartment manager, in response to my email on Saturday informing him that the apartment is STILL leaking:
We have now placed an emergency leak repair service call to a local professional vendor. Their typical response time is 24 hours or less. The problem has migrated to the unit below you, so we will get to the bottom of this immediately, no matter the cost.
Thanks (again and again) for your wonderful patience throughout this ordeal. Just think, when we’re all done with this, you just might have the most water-tight apartment in Seattle!
OH, how badly I wanted to write back:
…and just think, if you’d taken me seriously four weeks ago, this wouldn’t be an expensive emergency!
AND BY THE WAY MY CARPET IS STILL WET!
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UPDATE: 4/4/07 AND THEN THERE WERE THREE…
I finally dropped a note on Monday for my neighbors, who share the moldy wall with me. I had told the maintanence guy he should do it but he obviously ignored me, because their response email today said they discovered black mold all over the wall behind their bed.
This is getting ridiculous.
I came home to more leaking. Soaking wet carpet, too. AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH
