Screw you, Mother Nature

All I wanted was one snow day. ONE SNOW DAY. Is that too much to ask? Apparently so, because here I am in work, and more importantly, presumably will have class tonight, which I was really hoping to get out of because our professor decided to be ridiculous and assign 200 pages of reading (for which we have to submit 5 discussion questions), plus a 5-minute presentation, and only told us YESTERDAY. Because we don't have full-time jobs or anything and can devote all our free time to homework so we don't need more than a 24-hour turnaround. OH WAIT.

Well, at least I had hot water in my apartment this morning, which is more than I can say for the rest of this week. Good thing, too, because if I went any longer without showering, people might've started to complain. :-P

Fuckwittery 101

Ah, my grad school never ceases to let me down as a major source of fail. Today's shining example:

We were having a hypothetical discussion of the soda tax, which is supposed to raise revenue and cut down on health care costs by encouraging people to drink fewer sugary beverages. This is all fine and inoffensive until SOME DUDE decides to chime in with, "Why don't we just tax fat people for being fat?"

YES LET'S DO THAT. Because clearly only fat people need to be penalized for being unhealthy. I mean, really, health is all about how you look, not what you eat or how much you exercise, right? OF COURSE IT IS.

"But shouldn't unhealthy people pay more, because their treatment costs more?" this dude asks. That would be why we have INSURANCE PREMIUMS, dumbass. And let me tell you, they will charge you a higher premium for anything even remotely close to a symptom or predisposition for a condition.

Undeterred, his next suggestion is, "Well, has anyone considered raising the Medicaid and Medicare premiums for unhealthy people, the way private insurance does?" Fortunately, the dude sitting next to him (who I think was ready to slug him, lol) fielded this one by pointing out that the ENTIRE PURPOSE of Medicare and Medicaid is to provide affordable insurance to people because NO ONE ELSE WOULD INSURE THEM. Old people in particular are not cost-effective - their health is pretty much guaranteed to deteriorate, which will inevitably end up costing a crapload of money. This is why we HAVE Medicare. Making them pay more pretty much defeats the purpose of the program.

But the best part? Douchey McDumbass is in my group for the final project for this class. AWESOME.

(Also, for those who were wondering, no, I did not finish my homework for tonight, and no, it did not matter. We spent the entire class on our presentations - which were just as redundant and boring as I anticipated. I totally winged mine and did fine. And so the reading and discussion questions we were supposed to have done for this week is now due next week. See? Laziness totally pays off.)

The favorite characters meme

List fifteen of your favorite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices.

In no particular order:

1. Buffy Summers (BtVS)
2. Spike (BtVS)
3. Amy Pond (Doctor Who)
4. Eleventh Doctor (Doctor Who)
5. Erica Strange (Being Erica)
6. Chuck Bartowski (Chuck)
7. Veronica Mars (Veronica Mars)
8. Caroline Forbes (The Vampire Diaries)
9. Laura Roslin (BSG)
10. Annie Edison (Community)
11. Tami Taylor (Friday Night Lights)
12. Jed Bartlet (The West Wing)
13. Arnold Rimmer (Red Dwarf)
14. Harry Dresden (The Dresden Files)
15. Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games)

OMG this was really hard! Like, I could've listed just about every character from The West Wing. Or so many other shows! *flails*