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Ok, so I figured out why USC was trying to charge me again for my health insurance. Because I'm in the joint program, I am actually considered a member of both the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Mass Communications. Liberal Arts subsidises all but $50 of the health insurance fee for its GAs, if you go through the school. Mass Communications doesn't subsidise any of it. Since my GA-ship is through the College of Liberal Arts, that's who I registered under and I paid my $50 and they paid the rest and all was good. But apparently (for some unknown reason, because the classes are mostly a joke) the MLIS from the College of Mass Communications is considered a "higher degree" than my MA from the English Dept. So some kind soul in the registrar's office, while getting me set up for next semester's registration, noticed that I was set up to be registered under the "wrong" department -- apparently they always go with the "higher degree". So she switched me over. Then the financial services department got a little flag saying that I was no longer a Liberal Arts person and therefore sent me a bill for the remaider of my health insurance.

*Sigh* Of course, it took four phone calls to figure this out, and then one simple 5-min call to get me back under Liberal Arts where I belong. Although I was warned by the guy that switched me over that I should be prepared for this to happen again any time anyone from the Registrar's office looked at my file and noticed the "mistake". Isn't bureaucracy grand?

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Ok, so I meant to do it earlier and aim for meetings today, but things got busy and I forgot. So emails went out today to request all the meetings I need. I have to call back later to get the French Reading Exam set up, since the person who's in charge of that is out of the office until 2:30. I also have to go do laundry, and get some fish for Sal. And finish reading Whitman. And probably meet with Jenny tonight about our presentation on the 23rd. And at some point today I should really try to at least come up with a topic for the paper due next Thursday.

And somewhere in there I'm going to go to Blockbuster and pay that icky little late fine they called me about and then pick up a movie to watch, because, damn it, today's my day off!

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I want sushi.

A little taste of Whitman

When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.