1-866-OUR VOTE

Bob Herbert has a nice editoral in today's New York Times about voter disenfranchisement. There's a hotline you can call if you hear about people trying to suppress votes, or if you experience voting irregularities on election day -- it is:

1-866-OUR VOTE

It's toll-free, and the hotline will put you in touch with local volunteers who will help you to resolve the issue.

Write this number down in your daytimer, stick it on a post-it to your voter registration card, put it in your palm or program it into your phone. Post it on the fridge. Because something tells me that quite a few of us are going to need this number come November.

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*grumble*

I finally got through to an actual live person at my old OB office. She claims the records were sent on 8/24 and there's no charge for them since I was a fairly new patient (there was hardly anything to send).

*grumble*

So now I have a call in to my (hopefully) new office to find out if they have the records in hand, and if not, I'll have to call back AGAIN to the old office and ask them to resend them.

Trying. Not. To. Have. A. Flameout.

Breathe in, breathe out.
Breathe in, breathe out.

LIES! ALL LIES!

So just now in the mail, I get an invoice.

Yup, you guessed it... it's for my medical records.

In bold print, it says my records won't be sent until I pay up.

So either the girl at the old office was lying, or she's incompetent. I'm not sure which is worse at this point.

Three. Weeks. For seven pieces of paper.

I don't know whether to cry or scream.