but also you should get some sort of assurance that this won't happen to anyone coming to Mass Gen trying to sort out their billing ever again.

Just to clarify, this wasn't the hospital, it's the medicaid office, which is MassHealth in MA.

And I just got off the phone with the YMCA (FINALLY got that fixed, and they're issuing me a huge reimbursement! YAY!), so now I will call MassHealth back.

I have come to the conclusion that I am a horrible Indian. Every other Indian person I check on Facebook has gobs and gobs of Indian friends.

Well, your family has done a great job of overloading any possible warm fuzzy "OMG shared heritage YAY" feelings you might ordinarily have with a metric assload of conflict and stress and Not Good Enough/You Disappoint Us-ocity.

BTW, that was a completely charming letter you sent lpfw. I'm vibing good things to you.

Thanks to all the beer talk, I am now craving a nice deep dark stout. At just past nine in the morning.

And, lastly, am I a horrible skipping-past-everything bad skipper and I missed where someone else linked to this excellent babycentric YouTube video, or is it just so ancient that everyone's already seen it and wearied of it months ago?

Post-lastly, it appears that I can haz job. I don't know exactly when it starts or what the salary will be, but it is MINE. Admin work for adult cardiology back at UC, starting, uh, sometime next week. I'm breathing again for the first time in weeks.

eta: yay vw for winning the YMCA battle! I'm vibing stern, eloquent smiting vibes to you for the next round of calls to Mass Health. Speak to that woman's supervisor and then smite her. Smite her a lot.

On hold for a supervisor...

JZ - congratulations!!!

JZ! YAY! That's wonderful!

In other "I feel smart" news, I got a Palm Tungsten E2 off of eBay and received it yesterday. The installation software was throwing up errors. Hubby started going, "It's a dud, send a complaint."

But, in best tech support tradition, I noted the error message and searched Palm's support library, then discovered I had to uninstall my old Palm software first. After that, the software installed but it wouldn't sync, so I popped over to Device Manager to check for errors, then let it copy over more drivers.

I feel so smart.

JZ, you rock!

"Charlie that huuuuuuuuuuuurts!"

JZ, I'd meant to link to that weeks ago when I first heard of it, and I kept forgetting, so thank you!

Everyone else, click. Right now. And turn your speakers on. Don't worry about co-workers overhearing - they'll thank you for brightening their day.

Also click on this one, which was my second guess as to what was behind JZ's link. (No sound necessary for this one, but it does have non-sexual boobies in it.)

BTW, that was a completely charming letter you sent lpfw. I'm vibing good things to you.

Aw, thanks.

Congrats on the job!

I think all my Potential Future Wives live in the Star Trek Mirror Universe....

(Hopefully, they don't all have goatees.)