Truth is, I'm not doing anything exceptionally exciting or meaningful. I mean, yeah, I go to work - and I'm doing new things that are actually kind-of exciting - but I've gotten extremely complacent in my daily life to the point where I've spent entire days without leaving the house. It's somewhat unsettling.
I'm making progress, I hope. Last Sunday I threw caution to the wind and went with a coworker to the J Roddy Walston and the Business show downtown at King's. It was an awesome show - they are as energetic as performers as you'd expect from listening to their music. The venue is pleasantly small to boot, so there really aren't too many bad places to stand - the whole room sounds good. I keep trying to fit "rad" in as an adjective because that's really the way I would characterize the whole show: radical - straight from the 80s. My superlatives are lacking. I'm not very good with adjectives anymore, I think. It is sufficient to say that the show was excellent and well worth the lost sleep.
The concert was part of a goal in which I do my best to not "let work win." That is, I have found myself using my job as an excuse to not try new things. I want to not do that as much in the future.
I am currently trying to figure out how to best obliterate both my vacation days and my tax refund (mad props to the government for the tuition credit). I have a pair of weddings in the frozen north this summer - one in July and the other in August - for which I am pumped. I've never understood how to properly play the game of "inexpensive airfare", so I'm panicking slightly because I hate not having a plan laid out ahead of time (never mind the fact that I have at least a month before I really have to worry). Still, I imagine I'll get to get a bit more radiation pumped into my body in the name of security theatre and take to the skies in the interest of wishing my friends well in their marriages. I do love the interpersonal aspect of it all - seeing old friends and visiting old haunts - despite my tendency to complain.
I have also just today learned about the importance of health insurance: following the instructions of my dentist, I am soon to have a surgeon rend my wisdom teeth whence they are anchored. As it turns out, this procedure comes to a total of some $2700. It seems decidedly absurd, a stupidly large amount for the act of tearing a few misaligned nuggets of bone out of my head. The takeaway, though, is that apparently (and I have yet to confirm this with human resources) my dental insurance covers - per person per year - $1500. Total. No more. This, of course, adding in a routine dental cleaning - means I'm out nearly $925 for the privilege of having a surgeon manipulate several instruments of torture in such a manner as to extract my errant teeth. The truly absurd part here is surprisingly not the cost of care, but that my insurance functions exactly backwards. If I am hit by a truck, I have to pay some fixed cost in the thousands as my deductible and then my insurance company is on the hook for the rest - there is a maximum payout I must make per person per year. In this same accident, however, my dental insurer will pay out $1500 and I'm on the hook for the rest of everything. It has caused me to wonder why exactly I pay this company so much of my hard-earned dollars. Though I know I shouldn't complain - something is better than nothing at all.
I was trying to convince myself to get a new point and shoot camera for the slew of weddings coming up, but the apparent ineffectiveness of my dental plan and the possibility of another wedding-related trip have removed my ability to do so. It's likely a good move; I rarely use my point and shoot as is, though that may be because it chews through batteries with a swiftness unmatched be any other gadget in my stable. My D90 is not suit pocket friendly and might "cramp" my "style" on the "dance floor."
Lonely as I claim to be in the romance department, I am quite excited for these upcoming weddings. I need to remember to stop complaining so much.
I'm participating in something called an Experimonth. So far it has been quite intriguing and I am excited about the rest of the month's data. They provide graphs of my and others' data that seem to be updated in near-realtime. I do love graphs. Oh yes I do.
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