potpourri

[ciroccoj]

It is freaking hot (33.3°C - 91.9°F), we just came back from our first date in... way too long, I still have to post pix of Justin's dance recital where he was the only boy among about 150 little dancers, I have no idea what the difference is between R-rating and NC17-rating, Siam Bistro has really good food, we're going to Hawaii, and Canadians healthier, have better access to health-care than Americans: study and the kicker of the study is that There was one area where Americans fared better than Canadians. Despite being less healthy and having less access to a vastly more expensive health-care system, Americans are happier with their care than Canadians are. Which is funny because we were just talking about this over dinner on our date.

That's my day in a nutshell.

Comments

[snarkhunter.livejournal.com]

I think we just expect less. In essence, we expect to be screwed over, so we're happy with what we have.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

LOL!

I read something in first-year Psych, about a million years ago, that said that people tend to be happier with their purchases the more money they've spent, because they have to justify the expense to themselves somehow. So eg. people buying the exact same car report greater happiness the more they paid for it. And what with all this lovely health care feeling like it's free, we can dis it all we want. And oh, my, do we ever. Bitch and moan and complain about slow service in Emerg like we're at K-Mart and the salesladies are all gossiping in the corner, instead of busy dealing with a busload of accident victims or poisoned kids. And we make outrageously stupid health care decisions because it's all "free" too. Like, going to Emerg instead of seeing our family docs because the Emerg is near the video store, even though it costs the gov about $500 for you to walk into Emerg and $50 for you to visit your family doc.

Ugh.

Hm, I seem to have veered off talking about health care and taken a turn into my favourite rant topic, People Are Idiots. Oh well.