Dinhternet

… then you haven’t got anything.

One of the worst things about my job right now is my lack of health insur­ance. Just another perk of being a stu­dent that I didn’t take advan­tage of while I could have.

Some times, it’s lit­tle things, like tummy aches as I switched to veg­e­tar­i­an­ism or when I got the snif­fles right as Joe M was get­ting over his swine flu. Some­times, it’s a lit­tle more seri­ous, like when I fell while snow­board­ing and my ribs hurt for nearly a solid month. Most of the time, I self-diagnose like so:

(From Basic Instruc­tions.)

For seri­ous cases, I might enlist my par­ents or the inter­net for advice.

I know there are peo­ple out there worse off than me. While my job isn’t the high­est pay­ing, it’s still above min­i­mum wage. I don’t have depen­dents to worry about. And I’m still rel­a­tively young. It’s actu­ally a safe bet for me to skimp on health insur­ance. There are a lot of peo­ple who can­not say the same.

Would I pre­fer to health insur­ance? Of course, but I don’t because I can’t afford it. I’ve been fol­low­ing news about the health care bill pretty care­fully because of this. Manda­tory cov­er­age is scary. Hope­fully the reduced costs get real­ized simul­ta­ne­ously and not “soon after.”

Due to some unex­pected car trou­bles, looks like my sav­ings account will be empty and I will not be able to go sky­div­ing for my birth­day.

Back-up plan is cur­rently a Yosemite trip and to tackle Half Dome. Hit me up if you are inter­ested and/or have sug­ges­tions for alter­nate plans involv­ing any items on my bucket list.

I have minimal-to-casual inter­est in sports, so March Mad­ness doesn’t mean much to me. I would much rather bet on this bracket:

(From Indexed.)

Zom­bies all the way!

This par­tic­u­lar bracket reminds me of a ran­dom Tweet I made a while back about how

Zombies:Vampires::Science:Religion

Feel free to wrap your head around that as you study for finals.