Travel Insurance

Posted on July 5th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Personal, Omnia Vanitas, Current Events, Travel, Sponsored Posts, Money, Random.

Although my trip this week was canceled and I was able to recoup my expenditures on tickets and lodging arrangements, it reminded me that Travel Insurance is always a good idea. Especially now that I’m all flu-icky and wouldn’t get on a plane for $200 (although I’d probably do it for $300, depending on the eventual destination). I recently discovered TravelSafe, a family-owned and operated business that has been working hard to protect the traveler since 1971, through a recent press release. Apparently, TravelSafe offers an industry-first — a “Cancel For Any Reason” option — plus coverage for hurricane warnings and other inclement weather, worldwide medical protection and emergency medical evacuation, coverage for pre-existing medical conditions, trip cancellation/interruption, even the ever-present threat of terrorism. Before this weekend’s attack in Glasgow, on the very airport I’ve flown into dozens of times, I never considered visiting my family to be a risky prospect, even though I was in the air on 9/11. Travel seems to be an increasingly complicated undertaking — from fear to “mechanical difficulties” to acts of god — and so I think I will definitely be engaging the services of a travel insurance provider the next time I venture far from home.

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Speaking of a Bronte . . .

Posted on July 5th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Education, Personal, Literary, Omnia Vanitas, Random.

Although I’ve done very little official study of the sisters Bronte, I do have a list of critical resources for them.  Probably my favorite is this one for Emily Bronte & Wuthering Heights.  Lots of good insights and a variety of critical approaches on what is probably my favorite ‘gothic’ novel.  I would love to teach this sometime, but I’m not sure if they still do it in high school.  I think there was one English class that covered it when I was student, and I took it off my boyfriend at the time and read it through in the course of a school day.  It’s one of those books that can change your soul if you pick it up at the right moment . . .

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Flu-Bar

Posted on July 5th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Personal, Literary, Omnia Vanitas, Random.

Ugh.  I’ve been feeling iffy for days, and I’m supposed to drive to Milwaukee for class today, so I went to bed last night at a reasonable hour for me — 3 AMish — only to wake up at 7:30 with a gnawing feeling
in my guts and a lovely clammy sweat clinging to my skin.  Yep, I’m pretty sure it’s the flu.  I wish I knew who to thank — besides myself for living an oh-so-healthy and regimented life — but instead I’m just going to whimper quietly on my blog.  I made the mistake of looking in the mirror when I got up to rinse the tangy taste of death out of mouth, and I can’t help but wonder why I can’t look like some Bronte heroine when I’m ill.  Instead of a lovely pallor with two spots of painted high color, I look like a corpse with a case of hives.  Woe is me . . . and so it’s shortly off to bed again.

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