Fantastic Voyage

I may or may not know someone who may or may not be trekking across the border next week to pick up some prescription drugs for two someones who find themselves unexpectedly sans health insurance.

These someones may or may not have relied on their UC Davis health insurance to cover them over summer (instead of signing up for their district's relatively expensive Kaiser plan), so that they could save a few hundred bucks over their first year of teaching. These someones also just finished their MA program about a week ago. Apparently, UC Davis health insurance dropped these someones the VERY SAME DAY that they turned in their final thesis. Apparently, they are the exception to the otherwise-awesome practice that UC Davis has of covering (most) students during the summer after their graduation.

The someone who is going on said trek across the border was mentioning it to another co-worker in the faculty lounge today. This co-worker said that teachers from a neighboring district routinely organize trips down to Mexico to pick up prescription drugs. This is one of the growing number of CA districts that does not provide benefits to its employees (they get paid a little bit more in return).

I find it awesomely interesting that the first time these someones find themselves in jobs that require them to serve as moral upstanding examples to hundreds of impressionable young American freedom-loving minds each year coincides with the time that they decide they need to obtain drugs quasi-legally across the border.