I have the Cough From Hell™.

I also watched SiCKO last night, thanks to torrent leaks. For the record, I am no fan of Michael Moore or the people who quote things from his movies as if they were facts. However, a friend of mine stated I was hypocritical for hating it despite having never seen it and so therefore I was persuaded to sit down and watch it. Without giving anything away, I will say that it is unexpectedly better than the rest of his films and while there is an enormous slant towards his own views mixed in with a fair amount of propaganda (Canada is the Promised Land, people), he actually lets the subject matter do a large amount of the talking vs. him being an ass on the camera to get his point across. To be fair, a friend of mine who is not from the United States and immigrated here when he was 12 thought that paying to go to the doctor was a weird joke. Someone had to convince him it wasn’t. He thinks SiCKO is mostly accurate in it’s positive portrayal of other countries’ national health care systems. I’ll admit that I don’t know a lot about the workings of health insurance outside of the USA.

I dunno. I do actually recommend seeing it. I don’t agree with a large amount of the film but for the amount of thinking it had me doing, along with the “fact” checking I’ll do later, makes it alright. I still dislike Michael Moore though.

I had to say goodbye to two kids at work this week. They’ve done well enough to move on. One of them cried. Actually, she isn’t a kid, she’s basically an adult. She cried, and that almost made me cry - not because I’ll miss her terribly or anything, though I do miss a good deal of them when they leave; it’s just because I’m scared for them to an extent, and when they cry because they have to go, you know they felt safe there and that they trusted people. It’s hard not to feel a little sad because they have to move on from a place that provides that. Anyway, when they cry because of things like that, I want to cry. But I can’t, and so I don’t, and I give them hugs and tell them to do well and try to make them laugh and then never see them again. Such is life.

I apparently missed a star-gazing event that Texas Tech had earlier tonight because I had to work. They’re usually pretty cool because the ’scopes they have are waaaay better than I could ever afford. Figures. Hey, mel, the next meteor shower worth watching is July 28-29, but I think the full moon is gonna screw it up.

Umm, I was supposed to post Music o’ the Week at this moment, but due to this massive storm in the area, my internet is really slow and unable to upload the songs right now. So come back later sometime.

Word.