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Faith, Trust and a little bit of Pixie Dust.

@ohibelieveinyesterday-blog / ohibelieveinyesterday-blog.tumblr.com

So thinks some happy thoughts and just fly away.
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In which John discusses the American Library Association’s recent announcement that his book “Looking for Alaska” was the most challenged book in the U.S. in 2015, responds to those who try to get the book removed from schools and libraries, and discusses the role of teachers and librarians in American life.
You can find the list of the 10 most challenged books in the U.S. here.
Thanks to the American Library Association and the Office for Intellectual Freedom, and to all the courageous librarians and teachers out there who stand up for intellectual freedom and banned books.
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luchia13

hey guys psa regarding hospital bills

don’t just pay it. do not automatically pay the hospital bill when you receive it. call your health insurance provider and POLITELY say, “excuse me, i just received a bill for $1200 for my hospital visit/ER visit/etc., is that the correct amount i’m supposed to pay?” because hospitals bill you before your health insurance and they will take your money no matter how the amount due may change based on your health insurance looking at it. 90% of the time, if your health insurance is in any way involved in the payment of that bill, you do not have to pay as much as the hospital is billing you for. call your health insurance provider first, and POLITELY request clarification, always remember that the person you are talking to is human and this is just their job, and then you will very likely find out you actually only owe $500.

don’t shout at anyone about it, don’t get mad, just understand that this is The Way Things Are right now and call your health insurance provider before paying the bill your hospital just sent you. there’s a chance the hospital bill might be correct, true, but call your health insurance provider.

THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT. after my car accident last year the hospital billed me ~$8000. They sent me letters asking me to pay, and I called them back saying my insurance was processing the claim. This is also what I told the collection agency when they kept calling me about the $1000 emergency room fee (billed separately from the hospital fee, mind you). Once everything got straightened out, all I was actually liable for was my $200 emergency copay.

@sassholio I feel like we were just talking about this the other day

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rtrixie

Christ I am glad I live in a country where I don’t have to deal with this kind of thing

I’M DYING AT THOSE PRICES! how do normal ppl pay that shit?

They sell meth

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Here’s a small story among the literal hundreds you probably get every day :) The setting: a tiny university in the middle of cornfields Indiana. The event: Airband, debatably the largest event this university puts on annually where students compete as a wing or dorm or random collective to put on the best five minute performance to a mashup of songs while lip-syncing.

There was joking conversation about doing a Hamilton Airband for a while and slowly but surely it became less and less of a joke and more and more of something we wanted to make a reality. So a bunch of theatre fans including myself put together a five minute Hamilton Airband. We adore the musical and we worked super hard to put together a small preview with the hopes that it would be something exciting to share with people already familiar with the musical and intriguing for people who were not!

We had low expectations going in because we knew many people on our campus were unfamiliar with the songs and we worried we might not even make the final show because of this (Airband is usually very much about using things that are familiar or will provoke nostalgia in the audience, something we knew Hamilton was less likely to do). Despite this disadvantage, I’m happy to say that we not only made the final show, and got to be the closing act but also finished in 3rd place!! We want to thank you and show you how your musical inspired us as it has so many others! We know we come nowhere near to doing it justice but we had so much fun bonding over our mutual love for Hamilton and bringing it into our university’s public eye (small as it may be). 

So thank you! Thank you for being such an inspiration.  #heart4ham

I know I just reblogged this, but I forgot to add my little caption– look at this! I was in this! We made this amazing little fan-band happen. Please watch and reblog, it would mean the world to our merry little hamilband if @linmanuel saw and acknowledged it. More importantly however, is that we share this creation with one another and continue to create and inspire others in our community. Give it a watch, that would be enough. <3 Alexandair Hamilband

supe excited the @thefederalistfreestyle has picked up our post, tagging some other blogs who might be interested in this content-- hope we can blow you all away :) @thetenblogcommandments @fuckyeahhamiltonthemusical @hamiltonthemusical @wholivesdiestellsyourstory @myowndeliverance @fn-hamilton @hamboy @hamiltrashed

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This just happened in class

Professor: So before we discuss the Federalist papers, let's talk a bit about Alexander Hamilton. I'm guessing you already know about him because of that musical or whatever.
Class: *nods*
Prof: ok, so where was he born?
Class: the Caribbean
Prof: ...right, the West Indies. What you may not know is that he was an orphan.
Class: *nods*
Prof: In fact, he was a bastard.
Class: yup
Prof: His mother died, but not before his father left--
Student: Professor? You're basically performing the opening number of the musical
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