going in and out of the headlights

Thanks to an Amazon gift certificate from my brother and his gf, finally got the Elbow mp3 CDs I've been wanting for a very, very long time. Also enabled me to buy the Radical Face CD, Ghost--fell in love hard with one song recently (thanks to gallo_de_pelea's >Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal soundtrack), hard enough to want the whole album. Then because of that discovered Electric President, so used the last bit plus a small touch extra to nab two of theirs. Needed needed needed. My mental state's self medicating recently has been that sort of sound. And broke down and got Strays Don't Sleep's For Blue Skies off iTunes, as Amazon didn't have it in mp3 form except if you got the entire One Tree Hill soundtrack, which eh, no thanks. So needed that song.

Got Ak transferred over and guild tagged. The people are nice, and it's obvious they are extremely competent and efficient. They're also focused yet mellow. But holy hell...got in on part of the raid, and I have so so so so so so much catching up to do on skill, gear, learning of the hard modes, and so on. And I was sucking hard on even normal mode encounters I already knew because I was so horribly nervous/tense/panicking. I guess Sunday if I get in I'll see if I can do any better--though the focus will be Thorim, which I've not seen the second phase of, much less the hard mode. Soooo... The next month game-wise will be interesting. I just hope like hell I can learn quick and catch up so I can show them I am someone decent.

And yes, this is the Radical Face song that sold me before it even finished. Falling in love is hearing music like this for the first time.

oh, son of a...

And of course this is when I realize that my medical insurance lasts through the end of the month. In other words, for only four days. Even once the group administrating the COBRA coverage receives my information from my last job, it will take them two weeks to mail me out the enrollment items. And my last workplace, despite the fact my last day was August **14th**, two weeks ago, still has not sent the group that administrates COBRA the paperwork they have to have before they can send me that enrollment information.

Soooo...how long am I going to be insurance-less before the COBRA will start?? Even though at UNO where I was *terminated* this happened fucking quickly and I had *no* gap in insurance coverage, and even though I left this workplace the *right* way, gave my two weeks notice and everything??

God, I feel sick (ha HA). I did this all the right goddamned way, and now I'm going to end up fucked over for it. Because ex-workplace's bureaucracy obviously fucking fails. BRILLIANT.

Makes me wonder...what if someone's last day was like the 30th and the last day of the month was the 31st? Why would they get fucked over on getting their COBRA started compared to someone whose last day was like the 1st?