Date Night

[judecorp]

Jen and I had an awesome Date Night at the back end of an awesomely noneventful day. I had a home visit at 10 that ended 30 minutes early because the kid was sick, then went home for an hour, then went to a 12pm visit that was pretty easy, then home. Awesome.

After kicking it around the house with Jen for a bit, we decided to head up to Kendall to see an early showing of Wordplay, which was really enjoyable. I love nerdumentaries. And we ended up getting free tickets because they had some sort of trivia question that Jen answered! Then we braved the traffic and headed out to Cleveland Circle to Cityside to eat dinner and play a little NTN trivia. We stayed for several hours and played about 3-4 games... and on one of them (Triviaoke) I was #16 in the /whole network/! Sweet!

I am exhausted now, exacerbated by waking up at 6 this morning and being unable to fall back asleep (thanks, Daedalus), but I'm holding out to take my vitamin until my stomach empties a little bit more.

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The Acupuncture Woman called me today to say she was sorry that I had a stressful time. Only that's not really what she said - what she snarked was that she "was truly sorry that her expertise on my condition and suggestions about my diet were so upsetting." And I wasn't going to get into it but as soon as she said "expertise" and "condition" I couldn't avoid it. So I told her that I didn't decide to leave because of the dietary suggestions, but because of several other things that happened throughout my time there that were making me uncomfortable. When she asked what they were, I didn't really want to get into a big confrontation (which is why I didn't go last night) but did tell her that I was really turned off when she and the other dude were talking in hushed tones about another client in a very negative manner when I was right there in the waiting room, and how just the idea of them having an unprofessional conversation like that about me made me feel uncomfortable. So of course she apologized a lot and said that she didn't remember that happening (whatever. she and the dude had a similar conversation in front of Jen the time she waited for me in the waiting room.) but that it was indeed unprofessional. She apologized a hundred times but I definitely got the vibe that she still felt that I left because I couldn't handle "her expertise about my condition." Either way, she totally surprised me by saying she was going to send me a check for the cost of my unused session, even though I only cancelled about 2.5 hours before. $WEET!

Comments

[damdyke.livejournal.com]

I'm glad she made it right...it's only fair, you know? :-)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, their policy is a cancellation on less than 24 hours notice gets charged... so Jen and I had accepted the fact that we were going to eat the cost. It was a pleasant surprise, and she certainly didn't have to do it. I am grateful.

[ladyoracle.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're getting your money back! Maybe this isn't the first complaint against her.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I have no idea.

But you know what was weird? When she called me and I said, "Hello," she asked if it was I and I said yes. Then she said, "This is Dr. FirstName LastName," which struck me as odd. Doctors call me all the time at work (pediatricians) and they usually say, "This is FirstName LastName, SoAndSo's pediatrician," or something like that. It was weird to me how the DOCTOR had to be there.

Is that weird or is it me? Do lots of people do that when they are introducing themselves?

[ladyoracle.livejournal.com]

I haven't known anyone in that profession, so I can't say about that, but with professors, unless they are pretentious they don't call themselves Dr. So and So. I don't usually get called by doctors, but the one time I worried the Dr. who prescribes my meds (she's a family practitioner at ULL, but is also in charge of prescribing meds to patients referred by counseling services), she called herself "Dr. Young with Student Health Services," which was appropriate, since that's what she is called there. But, I wouldn't think they would day Dr. AND the first name. And then not who they are with. She's just a freak.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I wonder if she's used to having to force people to take her seriously? I don't know, but I do think that she has a bit of an overinflated sense of herself.

Oh well, all done with her!