I went to a doctor the other day as a part of my immigration process. Its quite interesting really when you think about it, you go through so many bureaucratic forms and send in so many passport pictures that it makes you wonder if you have sent a damn pinup to every branch of the government. So for those of you that don't know and for those of you bored enough to read this crap ... I am in the process of getting Permanent Residency in Canada.

I've been here in Canada for three years now and the process is nearly done .. or so I am lead to believe by the lawyer handling the case. I didn't realise that you had to go through a medical but anyway ... went to get all the usual stuff done like blood tests, urine tests and chest xray then had to go talk to the doc himself. Funny thing is he was actually a nice guy, most experiences I have had with doctors have not been positive which kind of makes a person wary when it comes to asking them about bloody anything.

So this guy was nice ... told us the results of the tests which he technically didn't have to do and for once didn't bitch at me about being a smoker ... sure he said that if I wanted to quit he could offer me some advice but he didn't browbeat me into quitting there and then. He was also very understanding about the anxiety I have. Yes I have an anxiety problem with panic attacks and the works which most people who think they know me would not believe but there you go.

Essentially I have been given a clean bill of health. This is the thing that I find really amusing because I lived in the States for a couple of years and the doctors there were telling me that because I am on the large side (weight wise) I was unhealthy and had to lose weight before I dropped dead of heart failure or the like. Well I haven't lost weight and I still smoke (yeah yeah nag bloody nag) and yet my doctor here says that I am healthy ... I don't have a cholesterol problem which I apparently had in the States so it makes me wonder if I had the problem in the first place and the American doctor was just pushing me to take tablets that I didn't really need in order to fill some kind of quota or other.

American health care system is fucked ... you pay your insurance (if you can afford it) and then when it comes to making a claim on that insurance the HMO gives you the run around trying to find any weenie little loophole they can to avoid paying out on the payments you have made.

Weird ... so I guess the bottom line is ... if you get sick come to Canada ... or any country rather than America. Not sure where this post was going to go but I am sure there was a point in there somewhere ... either that or I am just venting today about random things going on in my fucked up head.

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I wonder what goes through some peoples heads at times. I mean someone can be totally rational and be able to carry on a conversation where they prove their intelligence and then they go and do something that is just so unbelievably insane that it makes you wonder what they were thinking at the time ... or even if they were thinking at all.

I know the human brain is hardwired a certain way and that we are all able to learn as we troll our way through life, but what interests me more is those people that seem to be totally oblivious to the fact that everyone thinks they are a moron and yet they still skip their way through life thinking that they are the be all and end all of humanity.

Humanity is another thing I have a problem with ... yes beneath the veneer of civilization we are nothing but a bunch of bloodthirsty savages that are really only a few meals away from anarchy. How is it that some people can preach their way through life telling everyone that things should be said and done a certain way when behind closed doors they are nothing but a bunch of hypocritical bastards that would much rather descend into their baser desires than try and keep their squeaky clean images?

And these are the people that lead us in our so called governments!

Well as this is the first blog here I will just end now while I construct something much more coherent for my next one ... no doubt it will be filled with my normal acidic words and spewing of disgust about topics that annoy me.

Well either that or just pure sarcasm

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