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Thursday, March 04, 2010
Not that I'm miserable or suicidal or anything...
Wisdom teeth out cost me: $50 hospital co-pay, $580 anaesthetic, $1,700 surgeon's fees = $2,330 (upfront. I raided my post-PhD vacation fund to pay those bills).
Medicare + my health insurance (in that order) have refunded/paid: rest of hospital, ($170.70 + 56.90) anaesthetic, (0 + $507) surgeon's fees = $734.6
Total out of pocket: Four or more weeks hostelling in Japan.
I don't really like to talk about money on the blog, but this was enough that I had to rant about it. We're talking more money than I've earned this financial year here, and most of the money I have earned this year has gone on my monthly health insurance bill (and my public transport costs and other people's birthday presents).
In other news, in case you missed it, the big earthquake in chile has made the day shorter and I'm not going to feel guilty about my lack of desire to reproduce, regardless of what Kevin Rudd or my grandmother may think (that said, I'm very happy for the acquaintance who I spotted across a mall today who it seems is very pregnant). Also, if you're one of the few people on the internet who hasn't seen this yet, you have to see this.
Expect better news about the thesis tomorrow, I hope. Right now I'm overtired and headed to bed. Sorry for any incoherences.
Labels: linking all over the place, money matters, phd, still poor, teeth, tired
posted by Catherine, 9:34 PM | permanent link | (2) comments
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
You will be pleased to note...
...that I just paid my bill and will remain at this url for another two years. This is good.
If anyone has visited the site recently, you'll note a mess of broken links and odd formatting. Apologies, I'm working on it in what little free time I have at the moment.
And since I'm here I might as well blog this column and this video are my favourite web things from the last week.
Labels: chasing after butterflies and wishing I could fly, lonely-Cat, politics, random, retail therapy, still poor, wasting my life, web stuff
posted by Catherine, 1:32 PM | permanent link | (0) comments
Thursday, February 15, 2007
An Actual Conversation...Q: So, when's the website going to go live?
Me: Probably early next week.
Q: Excellent, excellent. You are getting paid for this, right?
Me: Not a cent.
Q: Good, because this is meant to be volunteer work.
*sweetdrops*
I get that a lot.
Labels: conferences, still poor, uni, wasting my life, web stuff
posted by Catherine, 12:40 PM | permanent link | (0) comments
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