4:20

I have the tendency to look at the clock at 4:20. It doesn't happen once in a while; it happens on average, probably about once every three days, but sometimes it's every day. It's especially odd because at 4:20, unlike 11:11 or 9:11 (which pop up a lot as well), I am usually only awake for one occurrence of this time each day. This means that I check my cell phone or look up at a subway clock or glance at the bottom right corner of my computer screen at exactly 4:20 almost every day. Never at 4:19 and never at 4:21. Weird.

Watershed Addiction Rehab

Seriously?

There's another rehab ad on my facebook that's been popping up for the past month, here and there. It's for Watershed Addiction Rehab (http://thewatershed.com/)

This is the picture for the ad... it's actually a picture of the center, but I always think of an italian ice stand with an umbrella when I see it... ----------------->

Facebook, you've done it again!

I've decided to take it humorously, so I clicked on the ad and read the homepage... this place actually looks quite nice.

And affordable!

And it's in Florida! (but they don't tell you where...)

So, I've decided that if I were to compare the two rehab centers that so desperately want to help me, I would probably choose the Watershed center... for these reasons.

I quote:

"We have combined excellence and compassion with all the necessary disciplines to address the disease of addiction in a drug rehab center to help you achieve recovery."

The other site didn't even mention anything about compassion... one point for Watershed!

"We feel that by maintaining affordable addiction treatment servies combined with the best quality care, we will be able to reach more individuals suffering from this life threatening disease."

Affordable is important, especially cause I'm not exactly raking in the dough...

"We can help you, no matter how desperate your situation may be."

I'd say this falls under "excellence and compassion" but I'll give Watershed another point for the emphasis!

and a clever ending too: "More importantly, can you afford not to..."

Well, yes.

But I appreciate the effort.

Honeydew

I bought a container of fruit salad at a little deli today.

I was really excited because fruit salad is the best.

You get pieces of every type of fruit

without having to cut it all up yourself.

Mine had cantaloupe, honeydew, kiwi, strawberry, and orange in it.

Except, when I actually opened the container

I felt a little ripped off.

The top looked like a wonderful array of fruits.

But as it turned out,

I only got one strawberry,

one piece of orange,

and one slice of kiwi

which were all sitting there at the top.

The rest of the fruit salad was cantaloupe and honeydew.

So I was a little saddened.

But then I got to thinking about honeydew.

What a wonderfully lovely word!

The fresh softness of morning dew

with a hint of sweetness.

It's the perfect description of the fruit, really.

And I wondered who named it that first.

What ordinary poet linked those words together

to create the most beautiful of compound words,

which would later describe

a good two thirds of my fruit salad.

A Word Of Wisdom (July 1, 2010)

Twins are not born alone, but they could die alone...

Drug/ Alcohol 24 hr. Help

So as everyone probably knows, based on the creepiness of the internet, the ads that show up on our facebook sidebars and other websites have relevance to our lives and what the internet has concluded that we are interested in.

So usually the side of my facebook page is full of ads for photography courses, New York City deals, new movies, live music, etc.

But I've noticed something that's been showing up consistently for the past year.

There's always a box there that says "Drug/Alcohol 24 hr. Help" (http://www.thetreatmentcenter.com/) just chillin' there on the side of my screen. It's always there. I just don't get it.

Now, I'm not trying to fool anyone about the existence of certain things that i may partake in for fun, but I'm most definately not an alcoholic nor do I suffer from a serious drug problem.

And even if I did, how on earth would facebook know that?

I don't sport statuses like "OMG i got sooo trashed last night! ;) ;)" or "time to go roll a blunt."

I may occasionally make reference to getting high or drinking but I know for a fact that those comments do not come about often enough to assume that I would have a problem.

Much less a problem big enough for 24 hour help!

Really when it comes down to it, the ad makes me feel pretty bad.

Not because it makes me guilty or ashamed or anything, I'm really fine with myself.

But it makes me feel very wrongly judged.

By someone out there that I've never met.

About something very serious.

And it's the only consistent ad that shows up. The others come and go, but this one just keeps on popping up!

I'm very tempted to contact them and tell them how I feel because I'm pretty sure that there are many people out there on the internet who could actually use this 24 hour help, but who aren't seeing the ad. Instead, they're wasting their money on making me feel bad.

And I don't like it.

A Word Of Wisdom (June 19, 2010)

You are always saying something.
Whatever you are wearing says something about yourself and if you choose to wear nothing, that says even more.

On The Eve of My Calculus Final...

Sometimes I sit back in my chair in math class and I try to retrace my knowledge of the subject.
I can remember learning addition and subtraction with groups of M&M's. I remember memorizing multiplication tables on my way to school. I remember my teacher going over long division... and long division going over my head. I remember the embarrassment, which a calculator later relieved. Then came the variables. I guess they chose x because it was far less logical than a. But algebra made sense- just solving for an unknown. Geometry was straightforward, although the proofs became tiring. But still, I did encounter these shapes every day. Then came trigonometry, and this is where I lost my way. I get how trig functions come from triangles, and why they are there, but graphing functions- why do I care? Parabolas are nice, but I've only seen them on graphs. This is where real life no longer meets math. Then there was precalc and now there's calculus. And the kids who got trig are as confused as the rest of us. I look to the board and then look to the sky. Optimizing equations- why, oh why? So to those who live for math, I mean no offense. But honestly, after geometry, this shit makes no sense.