I'ma stick my HMO up yer PPO, biatch

Day 4. We've left the "this is a computer" stage and gone headlong into the "everything you need to know about insurance but never gave a shit about" stage. Lots of info to keep track of. Fortunately, this happens to be "Customer Appreciation Week" at the job -- which means we get various tasty foods every day of the week. Today we get to make our own sundaes. I've had so much chocolate in the past half hour, I'm about ready to explode. So I decided to take some of my sugar rush energy out on the ol' blog.

Well, time to get back to training. I think we're going to learn about medicare now. WooT!

This is a computer. This ... is ... zzzzzzzzzz

And I'm back again. Less pissed off, but more bored. I'm at work now, you see, and we're on our lunch break. I've never needed a whole hour to eat a sandwich, so here I am. Oh, by the way, I'm in day 2 of training in how to answer questions about insurance over the phone. Exciting stuff, as you may well imagine. We're still at the "this is a computer" stage, so I'm about ready to jump out of my skin. But all will be well in a couple of weeks...we hope.

My brother once wondered why more people don't live in California -- you know, 'cuz of the weather 'n shit. Well, I have two reasons for you: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the "Racial Privacy Act". The former you already know about. In case you haven't heard of the latter, the jist is this: the government will no longer be able to classify people by race or ethnicity. Isn't it funny how people think if they just ignore something it'll go away? Like that dirt on your kitchen floor or the fact that your neighbor is Black? And it wouldn't be such a problem if it didn't effectively mean the end of affirmative action.

By the way, I heard Ann Coulter responded to Al Franken's newest book recently. Her brilliant defense: "I made some mistakes." Wow. Good call.