Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Brahms' String Sextet No. 1
I had a harder day today than I deserved. I learned what happens when neither a hospital's attending specialist or attending primary doctor are in my HMO.; the two doctors the hospital handed me. & the only specialist in my HMO in this large city with a large hospital is very old & has an office over a beauty parlor in not very pleasant location, & the next nearest ones I can possibly get to are in Millburn & Newark & aren't affiliated with this large local hospital. & I have to immediately switch specialists. Those other specialists aren't required to accept me as a patient, although fortunately I'm permitted to contact them without a referral.
But I did get through quickly enough to a service rep at the HMO & she did explain clearly what I needed to know.
The owner of this apartment building should put a No Loitering sign out front, & the sign should be intended for the miserable alcoholic guy from the third floor who was standing unsteadily out there at 11 am & asked me for a dollar. I'd just walked home because it was a nice day & I needed to clear my mind & think rationally, & I also saved myself return trip cab fare & picked up some decent orange juice on sale.
Now I am going to listen to Brahms' String Sextet No. 1.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
But I did get through quickly enough to a service rep at the HMO & she did explain clearly what I needed to know.
The owner of this apartment building should put a No Loitering sign out front, & the sign should be intended for the miserable alcoholic guy from the third floor who was standing unsteadily out there at 11 am & asked me for a dollar. I'd just walked home because it was a nice day & I needed to clear my mind & think rationally, & I also saved myself return trip cab fare & picked up some decent orange juice on sale.
Now I am going to listen to Brahms' String Sextet No. 1.
