did you watch CSI, Calli? JUST AS BAD AS BEING OFFERED A DRINK.
No, but evidently I should. Booze costs way too much, and I'm already paying for cable. So thanks for the tip!
Angel: I appreciate you guys looking out for Connor all summer. It's just—he's confused. He needs time. That's all. Fred: Right. Time, and some corporal punishment with a large heavy mallet. Not that I'm bitter.
'Just Rewards (2)'
The Crying of Natter 49
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Calli - Feb 04, 2007 4:46:05 am PST #7972 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Kat - Feb 04, 2007 4:55:14 am PST #7973 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I wonder how the gambling addiction counselor feels about gambling as an addiction relative to sex as an addiction. I mean, would she say our culture doesn't celebrate sex either?
Lesson No. 8907 about the internet:
it fuels my OCD. I dropped books off at the school book depository yesterday AM before class. The library opens at 10:00 AM and my class began at 8:00. Thanks to the internet, I can check my library record and see that they have not been checked back in. I ask you, WHY NOT?! So I'll check again later today to see if they do get checked in.
Paranoia is a beautiful thing.
Theodosia - Feb 04, 2007 5:28:27 am PST #7974 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I guess the gambling counselor has a serious case of "If you have a nail, the world looks like a hammer" syndrome, tunnel vision for her cause of choice.
That said, I know you can't go into almost any grocery, convenience, liquor store around here without passing the state lottery on sale, not to mention sports being ubiquitous in our culture/news, which I suppose would be a big trigger to some gamblers. Because most of us don't have a gambling problem, it's nearly invisible to us.
I seem to be arguing myself around to seeing it from her point of view. Though of course, she's taking a big leap over all the social situations that involve liquor, all the ads in various places and et cetera.
In conclusion: addiction is hard, and deserves a lot of understanding.
Jesse - Feb 04, 2007 5:31:23 am PST #7975 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I guess the gambling counselor has a serious case of "If you have a nail, the world looks like a hammer" syndrome, tunnel vision for her cause of choice.
This.
In conclusion: addiction is hard, and deserves a lot of understanding.
Also this.
Really it was the pop culture part that killed me -- later on the same show, they had a thing about Super Bowl ads, many of which are for beer, of course.
Ah well, moving on! I think I'll go buy a six-pack and a scratch card.
Jessica - Feb 04, 2007 5:31:52 am PST #7976 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Speaking of CSI (not really), if anyone watched L&O on Friday, my sister was very briefly in the first scene! She's the angry looking woman in the front row in the camouflage jacket, and there's a close-up of her shouting at the Anne Coulterish speaker right before everyone rushes the stage. (Ripped-from-the-headlines opening scenes that only tangentially affect the case don't need whitefont, right?)
tommyrot - Feb 04, 2007 5:32:53 am PST #7977 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Ah well, moving on! I think I'll go buy a six-pack and a scratch card.
You should also pick up a six-pack....
Jessica - Feb 04, 2007 5:33:41 am PST #7978 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
That said, I know you can't go into almost any grocery, convenience, liquor store around here without passing the state lottery on sale
True, but I can't think of anywhere to buy a lotto ticket that doesn't also sell beer.
Jesse - Feb 04, 2007 5:34:36 am PST #7979 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You should also pick up a six-pack....
I said six-pack!
tommyrot - Feb 04, 2007 5:36:02 am PST #7980 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I said six-pack!
Oopsie. Dunno what my brain did there....
(I haven't had my caffeine yet. But I'm not addicted. I can quit any time.)
Theodosia - Feb 04, 2007 5:36:19 am PST #7981 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Get two, in case the first one breaks?