The English teacher in the eighth grade held a, kind of a championship tea and the tea that she did was something that was an honors thing. And so the kids had -- they got dressed up, and they read poetry, and they had tea, and they had treats, and they had all kinds of food and everything else. But you had to be invited, and you had to have certain grades. And I taught -- she taught mostly honors kids, but she did have some that weren't. And I taught all the kids. And some of those kids, when they passed out the Tea invitations, would be so crushed. And so finally, I realized that this was -- some of these kids were never going to, they were never going to achieve the A and the A+ gradings they needed to go to this tea and every year we had this, you know, kids got all dressed up and everything else.   And so, after the first year, when I got all these very crestfallen and angry kids in my class being mad because they had to go to class and these other kids got to do all this other stuff, and go get dressed up and have their pastries and all this. I decided, after talking to the principal, that I was going to just quietly do what was referred to as the ‘Untea.’ And I took the name of course, from the ‘Unbirthday’ from Alice in Wonderland. And the kids would be called out of one of the classes and they'd all go to the Tea and then after they left and the other kids would kind of look and I never told the, the kids I said, “This is the one thing you have to do. This is a secret. You cannot let anybody know that this happens. But it's okay. It will be all right.” And so, then I'd pull out the cookies and the -- some kind of drink, punch of some sort. And we would have not tea, not a fancy tea, but we would just have the ‘Untea’ and I would let the kids sit any place they wanted and I would let them sit any way they wanted and I would let them -- and then we would do, we would talk about other things and do different things and it was always kind of -- it was always kind of fun. And I felt like…

Um, yesterday, actually, a co-worker of mine was really upset about something and -- something in the news -- and was asking if I knew about it, and I was like, "Yeah, I have heard, it's freaking atrocious." Specifically about Blue Cross Blue Shield and what they are -- and Michigan Health not accepting it anymore, because Michigan Health is a big provider up here. And, of course, Blue Cross Blue Shield is the main provider for most insurance plans, including mine, and everything that our university offers. So like, everybody that works where I work has a form. They either have a Mesa plan which is Blue Cross Blue Shield, or they have ours.   And so she's like, "Yeah, like this is just absolutely terrible." And she's like, "I just, I feel like people had no clue this was happening." And I said, "Yeah, I think a lot of people were stunned." And I was like, "And they did this two years ago to the dentists." Because Blue Cross Blue Shield already did this type of crap to the dentists two years ago. It's why I have a whole new dentist 'cause my dentist stopped taking insurance because they won't negotiate.   And she got mad and was like, "This is not even the same." And I was like, "No- what?" Like, totally taken aback. And she's like, "We're talking about like cancer treatments, not like a cavity." And I was like, "No, I know that. I'm not saying those are apples to apples. I'm saying what they're doing to the medical providers is the same thing they did to the dentists." And then I realized she doesn't actually understand what's happening because she carried on with, I needed to get my facts straight, and I needed to really go talk to HR because, clearly, I'm unaware. And I'm like, "HR has nothing to do with this. You don't understand what's happening. Got it."   And, she's not at work today, she stormed off after that. And my one co-worker who was standing there was like, "What the hell just happened?" and I couldn't explain it either. So I look forward to whenever I see her next ‘cause she's one of those co-workers that like, she'll say something again, and I really hope she does it when we're in our normal space so that I can look at her and be like, "Girl, you misunderstood me completely, like I can't help you understand any better. I'm not saying that, that the whole situation with the dentist -- I'm not talking about the intricacies. I'm just talking about how Blue Cross Blue Shield has been doing this to providers of all kinds, for years now. I was…

Note: There is language that is excluded in the transcript but not excluded in the audio.   So when we went to Spain a few years ago, two things: I hate London Heathrow. If you can avoid London Heathrow, do it. Go to like, some other country or a different, whatever you can, but like, avoid doing a layover there.   A belt broke with my boyfriend's checked bag. It was funny because like, I work with a lady. I worked with a lady from Spain, and she was like, you know, "There's so many uneven roads and you're gonna be in an Airbnb with a washer / dryer, so, just take -- just take a little like, carry on bag with clothes and do laundry." And he was like "No, no, no." You know, so he got a checked bag. And we were stupid and like the night before, someway, somehow, we took my medicine and put it in there, which was really stupid.   The belts at London Heathrow broke. And then, Europe is really good at going on strike, which is awesome. But, they -- there was some sort of like airport, some sort of like, strikes related to airports or whatever. So less people, and then the belt broke and sh**. So, he didn't get his checked bag until like, three months later. And they sent it back to Michigan. Um, but, but, but we learned 'cause like, I didn't have my anxiety medicine and if you don't have that, you are going to be so f****ed. So bad.   So I called my doctor and the receptionist lady or whatever, nurse, whatever, was like, "Hey, I don't know about Spain." But when, when she went to Italy, there were all these little market -- like, corner pharmacies. And you don't need a prescription for the most part, and it's cheaper. So she's like, trying to see if there's a corner pharmacy and see what they can do. So I went in, and I just told them the name and the dosage. And it was like six dollar -- no prescription, no appointment. And it was like six dollars for a month's supply of that medicine. Yeah.