Bones and Ashes
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cornerofmadnessSo today I get woken up by Macy's credit card calling to tell me I missed a payment (I did. Well fuck)
Then I get a text from CVS back in Pittsburgh. They have two pills filled and waiting for pick up. I have zero pills on auto refill (hear the internal screaming yet) I don't have time to deal with them.
At work my vascular surgeon's people call me in great concern. 'Are you okay? WHY do you need more blood thinners? You have an active script.' There's me in front of my class going uh what? I never asked you for more blood thinners. CVS called us. They did WHAT? a) I don't need a refill yet b) I don't need a new script. I have like 3 months left on this one. OMFG CVS.
Later that same class the surgeon calls to reconfirm my appt tomorrow which great because I was going to call after class because I don't remember them asking for my birthday and wasn't sure they made the appt.
I spent all weekend redoing the links on my online portions of class. Still not working as it turns out. (this is where my soul left my body)
Got an email from the dean. Is your art project ready? Technically no. I did around for my bones to put in my piece...and realize the small animal bones I had I gave to wild life so now I'm over there digging for tiny bones while talking to the head of wild life about the fact we need to add a 200 level research class because in spite of this never happening before in 20 years I had a second student ask me about doing research as a sophomore. She's a h.s. student who'll graduate in may and will graduate college with her associates as well. She wants to go to OSU to their dental program and can I help her. Not this semester young lady. We're 3 weeks in but next semester you bet because I need more work but I can't hardly say no to someone who is begging to do this (unlike my usual senior who has to be corralled and forced).
I get bones. I come home and get all the leaves I preserved last year for this. In spite of following a YT tutorial none of them kept their color but they ARE pliable. So that's ready, leaves, moss, bones. By friday it'll be art.
Also I'm doing Ashes of Them, where I decided to burn some poetry in my sink and mix visible text with ash and a 'wedding ring.' What could go wrong here? Well the smaller version of the poetry burnt so fast it burnt the text. WAH. I had the larger version that I made by mistake. Burnt it but it's still too big (will reprint tomorrow after the company party.) Burn even more paper for more ash. Because art!
Wanna bet Dana gets banned from faculty/staff art show next year.
While home I call CVS in Pittsburgh and ask why they refilled my script. they can't tell me AND somehow my doctor sent my new script there. They claim they didn't call my doc about that script renewal.
I call MY CVS, ask them to transfer those scripts and all my others. We need the names of them scripts. I start telling her and she says 'call us back on the weekend.' OMFG. By the way WHY do you have my pills also auto refilled and waiting (who the fuck knows which ones, she couldn't tell me)? And why did you call my doctor.
we didn't do that. Uh huh
Then United Health Care called about other Dana. I go into my spiel. 'oh my, how did that happen? I'll take your number out of the system.' Uh huh. Yinz been saying that for four years now.
BOOKS!
What I Just Finished Reading:
Solid Gold Murder - solid mediocre
Within the Darkness - a nonlinear fantasy jumping back and forth between 2017 and 1917, it was pretty good
The Secret of the Orange Blossom Cake - romance magic realism with a lead you want to slap into next week
What I am Currently Reading:
Wrong Side of the Grave - Bryna Butler mothman as an alien...she's local
What Moves the Dead - T. Kingfisher a very cool, queer coded retelling of the Fall of the House of Usher
What I Plan to Read Next: I'm so behind on my challenges. something for that
And finally August's reading. You know how I like to talk books so if you're interested in any of these let's talk
Ohio's Black Hand Syndicate: The Birth of Organized Crime in America true crime
Within This Darkness YA rural fantasy
Atlas of Unknowable Things gothic
Pantomime fantasy
A Dark and Deadly Journey historic mystery
The Wood YA rural fantasy
Look I don't want to see anyone get shot and die but I am really sick to my stomach about the Maga crew mourning this guy but are quiet on other school shootings or the democratic house reps in Minnesota who were shot recently. They only have empathy when it's one of them? that's what I'm hearing and that is...sickening but at least I'm not going to say well it's worth it he got shot to protect the 2nd amendment. I'm not him
Then I get a text from CVS back in Pittsburgh. They have two pills filled and waiting for pick up. I have zero pills on auto refill (hear the internal screaming yet) I don't have time to deal with them.
At work my vascular surgeon's people call me in great concern. 'Are you okay? WHY do you need more blood thinners? You have an active script.' There's me in front of my class going uh what? I never asked you for more blood thinners. CVS called us. They did WHAT? a) I don't need a refill yet b) I don't need a new script. I have like 3 months left on this one. OMFG CVS.
Later that same class the surgeon calls to reconfirm my appt tomorrow which great because I was going to call after class because I don't remember them asking for my birthday and wasn't sure they made the appt.
I spent all weekend redoing the links on my online portions of class. Still not working as it turns out. (this is where my soul left my body)
Got an email from the dean. Is your art project ready? Technically no. I did around for my bones to put in my piece...and realize the small animal bones I had I gave to wild life so now I'm over there digging for tiny bones while talking to the head of wild life about the fact we need to add a 200 level research class because in spite of this never happening before in 20 years I had a second student ask me about doing research as a sophomore. She's a h.s. student who'll graduate in may and will graduate college with her associates as well. She wants to go to OSU to their dental program and can I help her. Not this semester young lady. We're 3 weeks in but next semester you bet because I need more work but I can't hardly say no to someone who is begging to do this (unlike my usual senior who has to be corralled and forced).
I get bones. I come home and get all the leaves I preserved last year for this. In spite of following a YT tutorial none of them kept their color but they ARE pliable. So that's ready, leaves, moss, bones. By friday it'll be art.
Also I'm doing Ashes of Them, where I decided to burn some poetry in my sink and mix visible text with ash and a 'wedding ring.' What could go wrong here? Well the smaller version of the poetry burnt so fast it burnt the text. WAH. I had the larger version that I made by mistake. Burnt it but it's still too big (will reprint tomorrow after the company party.) Burn even more paper for more ash. Because art!
Wanna bet Dana gets banned from faculty/staff art show next year.
While home I call CVS in Pittsburgh and ask why they refilled my script. they can't tell me AND somehow my doctor sent my new script there. They claim they didn't call my doc about that script renewal.
I call MY CVS, ask them to transfer those scripts and all my others. We need the names of them scripts. I start telling her and she says 'call us back on the weekend.' OMFG. By the way WHY do you have my pills also auto refilled and waiting (who the fuck knows which ones, she couldn't tell me)? And why did you call my doctor.
we didn't do that. Uh huh
Then United Health Care called about other Dana. I go into my spiel. 'oh my, how did that happen? I'll take your number out of the system.' Uh huh. Yinz been saying that for four years now.
BOOKS!
What I Just Finished Reading:
Solid Gold Murder - solid mediocre
Within the Darkness - a nonlinear fantasy jumping back and forth between 2017 and 1917, it was pretty good
The Secret of the Orange Blossom Cake - romance magic realism with a lead you want to slap into next week
What I am Currently Reading:
Wrong Side of the Grave - Bryna Butler mothman as an alien...she's local
What Moves the Dead - T. Kingfisher a very cool, queer coded retelling of the Fall of the House of Usher
What I Plan to Read Next: I'm so behind on my challenges. something for that
And finally August's reading. You know how I like to talk books so if you're interested in any of these let's talk
Ohio's Black Hand Syndicate: The Birth of Organized Crime in America true crime
Within This Darkness YA rural fantasy
Atlas of Unknowable Things gothic
Pantomime fantasy
A Dark and Deadly Journey historic mystery
The Wood YA rural fantasy
Look I don't want to see anyone get shot and die but I am really sick to my stomach about the Maga crew mourning this guy but are quiet on other school shootings or the democratic house reps in Minnesota who were shot recently. They only have empathy when it's one of them? that's what I'm hearing and that is...sickening but at least I'm not going to say well it's worth it he got shot to protect the 2nd amendment. I'm not him
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Date: 2025-09-11 09:18 am (UTC)Your system is so different from ours: we have national insurance and a national prescription database, and it doesn't matter which doctor orders what, we can pick it up from any pharmacy in Finland as long as we have our national insurance card.
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Date: 2025-09-12 03:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-09-11 11:59 am (UTC)WTH are you doing, CVS?!!!
Haha, United Health Care! Sure, that'll be taken care of.
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Date: 2025-09-11 01:38 pm (UTC)CVS thinks I won't switch to Walgreens
Yeah they'll finally disentangle me from other Dana
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