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[kallie_starmist]

Well, went to see Steph on Monday... we had a roadtrip through the most terrifyingly barren place in Ohio; Sciotto county. The only remarkable landmark was a giant inflated Wendy (of the Wendy's franchise). Words cannot describe how terrifying she was. We all screamed in horror. I tried to get a picture of her on the way back, but I fail at taking

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[kallie_starmist]

I dunno about the cream horn... the thing is, peanuts taste REALLY strong to me, so if something's been contaminated I usually notice, but this was just "BAM! ALLERGY!" So this was just weird.
It couldn't have been too much of whatever it was, though, because I didn't have much of a reaction at all.

I'm sorry you have a cold! That sucks!

[midnight_zephyr]

My cousin is a medical graduate student. He's pretty much the humblest, self-effacing kid I've ever met, and I'm pretty sure his mom, who is one of those lab technicians who draws your blood at the hospital, would smack him a good one if he ever got so stupid. Things like that are not tolerated in my family.

Remind me to tell you about that girl in the Prospect Dining Hall I almost bit the head off of because she was complaining she had to spend her birthday in Tuscany.

[kallie_starmist]

I DO know doctors who are very good people... and I know that a lot of doctors do charity work (my dentist is one, if that counts...) just, sadly, the kind that are more common down here are the type that barely passed the bar, then came down to a dirt-poor region that has trouble attracting specialists so that they would never be out of work.

AHHHH! Tuscany indeed! D< I pity the fool who tries to tell me that.

[justmissjac]

It's doctors like the one you mentioned that make me afraid of universal health care, because in my experience the real price of universal health care is a lower standard of health care itself. I am thankful that while in Germany I didn't get sick or injured - I was more scared of German health care than the roads, and believe me, that's say something.

That said, I still want universal, because it's not something that should be a privilege. (Unfortunately it's still rather privelege-based in Germany - Americans have the medical that you can get on the military bases in addition to the German stuff if they choose.)

Also, zeph - HAD to spend her b-day in Tuscany? We're talking about Tuscany, as in Italy. Toscano. .... I will smack a bitch. DX

[midnight_zephyr]

My aunt's favorite part of her trip to Germany years back was the Autobahn. This is the woman who does U-Turns on the Mass Pike. In front of tolls.

[kallie_starmist]

I dunno, I know far too many people who's health care plan is "don't get sick," to feel that lowering our general standard of health care isn't worth it. What I'm more worried about is that they'll chicken out on the bill and change it until it just turns into a big waste of money that confuses everyone for a little bit and then is completely forgotten. There tends to be a lot of bad press for universal, but as far as I can see, the system we've got is a failure on so many levels that trying something new can do nothing but help.

[theartichoke]

The great thing about having parents who do everything wrong in their relationships is that you can use that to your advantage and just make sure don't do anything they do.

[kallie_starmist]

Yeah, that's occurred to me. Don't get married, don't talk to your exes under any circumstance...