I am too grouchy a person to watch Saiunkoku Monogatari.

I gave up halfway through episode four. This series has the consistency of oatmeal. Does anything genuinely bad ever happen outside of a flashback?

I want to slap half the cast for their seemingly-permanent air of self-satisfaction. It's like that Anne McCaffrey book Nimisha's Ship, where the heroine designs the best spaceship ever, and then she uses it to solve everybody's problems one by one, and everyone says, "Nimisha, you're so great," and Nimisha says, "Basically," and then the book's over. My spaceship is going to mess you up, Nimisha. It will have cannons that fire evil space-bears with antimatter claws or something.

What does one call this economic/psychological fallacy?

Looking at the bill for the surgery, I found myself thinking, "Well, I guess it's good that I'm over my out-of-pocket limit on my insurance for the year, anyway! I can go to the dermatologist and only have to pay the copay."

See, it would be better never reach my out-of-pocket limit in the first place. Yet my brain sees it as a good thing - because, I guess, I get some kind of serotonin hit when I get an EoB and it says "patient responsibility = $0"? It's only $0 because I already paid $3,000*! It's not a good deal!

I resent this error on the part of my brain's math node. I'm sure there are scams that make use of whatever makes it happen.


* Or, rather, Mom and Dad are paying this bill, which is the big one, so I personally have only paid about $1,000.