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spatch has summarized our latest go-round with our health insurance on Twitter. He used a lot less profanity than I would have. I mean, I texted him to ask if "dumpsterfuck" was a word.The good news, if you want to call it that, is that we can get our coverage reinstated for July. What we do not seem able to do, for the above-detailed reasons that feel like a fish trap rather than a business model, is get any kind of coverage or reimbursement for June.
Our refills having fallen due in the middle of this process, a word which increasingly capitalizes itself à la Kafka inside my head, I just paid out of pocket for a small amount of medications for myself and Rob because otherwise we're relying on willpower and over-the-counter drugs to manage brain chemistry, chronic pain, and an autoimmune disorder. Spoiler: it's not possible. Anyone who suggests we just don't have the right forward-thinking attitude is cordially invited to think of ten unprintable things and enact nine of them.
In mitigated bad news, I was glad to hear that Governor Baker has reversed his original decision to send the Massachusetts National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to assist with the unlawful separation of families and the internment of children. The fact that he keeps making decisions like the original decision at all is one of the many, many reasons I plan to replace him with anything with ethics in November. In the meantime, you can donate to RAICES.
In actually good news, of which it's nice to have a little, I started Yoon Ha Lee's Revenant Gun (2018) on the way back from the insurance office, perhaps feeling that one dystopia deserves another, and I am enjoying it tremendously. I last encountered this novel in a relatively early draft, meaning it came as a nice surprise that while the first chapter features Jedao waking up to discover that he's being asked to prosecute a war with uncertain intelligence, patchy memories, and a body that really doesn't remember collecting all these scars, the second chapter features Brezan waking up to discover that he's being asked to run a government, which is definitely worse. I am extremely and unsurprisingly fond of Kel Brezan, who is cranky, basically decent, and would probably do very well left alone in a room with a lot of paperwork as opposed to the labyrinthine space politics he has been required to play ever since someone who looked like Kel Cheris but talked like Shuos Jedao shot the trigger off his gun while he was drawing it on them. I already want the crackfic crossover between him and Maia Drazhar.
The rest of this is just tiring.
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