Family Sushi Night

[tanarill]

My family, being (as I have recently come to understand) ridiculously nuclear, makes the effort to eat out together no less than, say, once a month. Tonight, we went out and ate a meal comprising mostly raw fish and rice and spiciness. Some highlights:

JJ: Sorry, I was zoning, what did you say?
MW: You need more sleep.
Panda: He doesn't need more sleep, he just needs it at the right time.
JJ: I do not!
Me: [snerk] Says the kid who woke up at noon.
Panda: And Wednesdays are his early days.
JJ: I did not!
JJ: . . . I woke up at eleven. And didn't get out of bed until noon.
JJ: Or was it two?

Ladies and gentleman, my little brother.

Me: [to MW] What do you want for your birthday?
MW: I want something I can carry around while I'm walking to listen to things.
JJ: A walkman?
MW: Yes!
Me: [at the same time] No one makes tapes anymore, though.
JJ: . . . that's true. An iPod, then?
MW: What's an iPod?

She was actually serious. I'm debating the utility of one, though, because what she wants to listen to are books on CD. These often have copy-protection. Later, on the way home, she asked me more about iPods.

Me: Oh, older ones are cheaper and new ones are more expensive.
MW: What is cheap and what is expensive?
Me: Twenty to two hundred dollars.
MW: And the difference is?
Me: Memory. The new ones hold eight bajillion things, while the old ones only hold six bajillion.
MW: . . . an older one will be just fine.

I didn't play Go tonight, but sushi was adequate recompense. We stopped and got (mint choco-chip, my favorite) ice cream on the way home. So now I'm a happy tan.

Also, I am done with work \o/ It was a good work, and in a little while there will be a good school. In the meantime, I am free :D Yey for vacations.

In other, unrelated news, I am getting ready to go off to grad school and do . . . grad student things. To this end, I have been filing forms. On of the forms I filed was the one where I told the university that I have health insurance and therefore don't need to buy theirs. I send it in and was immediately served a rejection, on account of my annual OOP expense and other numbers. This number is pretty high, and my logic center didn't believe it, so I went looking to find what university health coverage is. This was not easy; it wasn't on the university web site, and the link to find the site it was on was well-hidden, as was the link on that site to the paper documentation. But when I did find it, it turns out that my existing coverage is an order of magnitude higher than theirs. So I sent a polite email which in essence went 'WTF, over' and today they send an email saying that my waiver has been approved.

Really now.

I was served a big heaping helping of feminism at Tiger Beatdown. As I read, it occurred to me that pretty much the same argument works for any socially disadvantaged group. And also that I am, unfortunately, part of the problem simply because as much as I empathize with [insert socially disadvantaged group here], I don't have the experience, so I should just stop talking. Finally, that random jerkasses (of any variety) have no right to my time, full stop, and that I should not ever act as though they do. So, thought-provoking and interesting, but I don't think I will keep reading that blog. My happy depends on not actively seeking out things to piss me off.

Last, I am starting suspect I have circulatory problems. My ass is always cold. Always. Including when I am sitting on a hot pad. What is up with this?

Comments

[rtydmartel.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... sushi!

I can relate to the weird sleeping hours. I'm trying to go to sleep and get up at earlier hours now.

Would she be using more than one CD at a time? Because if not, there are always portable CD players. ...They still sell those, right?

So, um, they didn't want to believe that another company was already handling your health insurance and so they wouldn't have to concern themselves... what. And, sjdhbgn, yes, websites. And the maddening thing is that, no matter how horribly well-hidden a piece of information is, as long as it is in some way accessible and in their website they can always claim that you just didn't look hard enough.

I've come to the same conclusion after reading fandom!secrets for months. There's just no pleasing everyone. Or sometimes, anyone. There are better things to do with one's time, anyway.

That does sound like something related to circulation.

[the-everbright.livejournal.com]

Tiger Beatdown! It's weird? It make me feel better just because I know there are other people out there pissed off about this stuff too. So even when it's rage-inducing I read it. I did unsubscribe to leftist political activist things though, so I get where you're coming from.

[tanarill.livejournal.com]

They do, but we bought her an MP3 player. It also functions as a radio, so there's that.

I know, right! But I found it, so that means I win. And don't hold dual coverage.