Who Still Writes Checks??

I'm a little frustrated this morning by the Health Services Dept. here at my school. Per Massachusetts legislation, all university students are required to be immunized for Hep B. I was aware of this before we started school but pretty much blew it off until last week when I received an email stating that my registration was 'on hold' until I started the series of shots. (Everyone else in my class that I've spoken with about it got the same email so I'm happy to know that I'm not the only one that made this the lowest of priorities.)

I finally made some time to go in to Health Services to get the first shot this morning and I'll be damned if they only accept cash or checks. Checks?? What are these "checks" you speak of? Hell, I'm part of the last generation that will know what the f*ck you're talking about if you refer to a 'bank teller' or a 'pass book'. I don't write checks any more. Why the hell would I? We have online bill paying. We roll with debit cards and credit cards. Within a decade, we'll all have RFID implants in our wrists that contain our account information so I won't even need a wallet soon. (And for those of you that fear that such technology is the harbinger of the End Times, I submit to you that there have been wacky End Times nuts since BEFORE J.C. and they've all been wrong as hell...what makes you think you're any less wacky than they were?). Checks are obsolete...they might as well ask me for a letter of credit from my feudal lord, sealed in wax imprinted with his ducal signate. Argh.

Ok, I'll stop ranting. Aside from that, school and life is good. Finals are a month away and the reading load has pretty much doubled in the last few weeks. So much for weekends off. Brooke is doing well, as best I can tell from our 1 hour of quality time a night. Oh, and I'm a real bastard for not getting my thank you notes out sooner for my birthday presents. I'm working on it...soon.

S.