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Random Thoughts VII
Posted by Tory, December 4, 2004 on 7:00 pm | In Amusements |- Weed. I`m against it. I haven’t trucked
in it since I was 17, and I don’t like it in
my house, and I don’t like high people in my
house, and things like this. I think my
problem #1 with weed is that you can’t
control your buzz. If you want to be a
little more drunk, you can take another
drink, and if you want to be a little less
drunk you can sit around an hour. Being high
on weed to me is like a mental asthma attack
that won’t stop happening to you. Don’t like
it. Also don’t like the idea that somebody
who smokes weed can leave a bag or a pipe
somewhere in my house and I won’t find it
but the maintenance guy or the woman who
sprays my cockroaches will and then I`ll
have a criminal record. Because people who
smoke weed are, you know, forgetful.
Anyway. - A friend inadvertently coined the
term “dick-willing” to describe, in a non-
judgmental fashion, someone who has a lot of
sex. With men, that would be. Dick-willing.
Try it — you`ll like it. - REMOVED 1/14/2005—I had a bullet here
about how a professor came to one of my
parties, and how flattered and impressed I
was by that. In it I also mentioned that it
was the same party that a guest tried to
roll a joint on my bathroom sink. These
events
were not related. It was stupid of me to
mention something as inflammatory as weed in
the same breath as anyone’s name – much less
the name of someone who had nothing to do
with it. - It turns out my mom is visiting my
sister in Chicago over Christmas, and it`ll
be just me and my dad and the dogs on the
home front. I can’t be sure, but I think
there could possibly be some booze consumed
between the two of us. My dad has taken to
calling his night toddy a “strong one.”
Compare this to Strong Bad’s “cold one.”
Discuss. Get back to me. - Remember that time I took Jacob T. Dog
to the dog park? And this dude brought in
his beautiful white German-shepherd-looking
dog, which took a huge duke right outside
the gate, and he just left it? So I picked
it up in a plastic bag and brought it to
him, saying, “Hey, you forgot something.”
I`m getting assertive in my old age. Or
maybe just more passive-aggressive. Hard to
say. - I got a cold and I`m stuffy and
enunciating poorly so I have to repeat
things. I`m like Jon in that one strip from
Garfield Tips the Scales. Damn, I
read a lot of those books. Whatever happened
to Lyman? - Remember that time I lost six pages of a
screenplay when my Mac crashed? Severe
betrayal of trust. Actually, here’s the
whole story, and I don’t know at what point
the problem happened: I opened the file.
Then I dragged and dropped the file from
the “Seek” window to the desktop so I could
easily open it later (couldn’t find it in
the Finder, but that’s another matter.) I
realize now this may have relocated the file
instead of just creating a shortcut.
Anyway.File is still open. I work on
it for three or four days, and I KNOW I
saved it often because I`m a chronic saver.
Then on the fifth day I accidentally touch
the trackpad and press a mystical key at the
same time and I get a wait cursor for a lo-o-
o-ong time. Like five or ten minutes. So I
think, I`m a PC user, I know what to do when
a computer crashes, and I power it down and
back up. Heh heh heh. I look for my file.
It’s not in the folder where it was saved
originally. I open the version on my
desktop. It doesn’t have any of the changes
I`d made over the past four days. What
happened? Can I get any of my changes back?
They were good changes. They were hard to
make. I miss them. They were good to me and
paid for dinner. - Another thing I don’t understand about
my Mac: I got these rewritable CDs, right?
Because I don’t have a floppy drive or
Internet access or USB port or a printer
because I`m ridiculous, so if I want to work
on something at home and print it I have to
take it to school on CD. I used iToast,
which worked like a dream, but now I can’t
rewrite that CD. What’s up with that? Is
that an iToast thing, or a Mac thing, or a
CD thing or what? Any guidance in this
department would save me much pain and CD
expenses. - This wasn’t very funny. I`m sorry. When
I have more time I`ll be more funny. Like
over Thanksgiving break. Yeah.
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Hey, Drew Carey showed up at my Sims` party, too. I feel a lot less special now, but heh.. I could totally relate to that surreal feeling. I`ve had few problems with CD-RWs (other than software-related problems I resolved by deleting the software), and in theory they should be relatively easy to erase and reuse. I use a PC and XP handles it nicely, so I`m leaning toward a Mac-related problem. Course, I`m a biased and embittered ex-Mac user, so take that as you will.
Comment by Alena — December 31, 1969 #
wow. you have just escalated this conversation to a new level of “ick.” i congratulate you.
Comment by supremegoddessofall — December 31, 1969 #
I usually prefer checking the upper roots and then leaving them with a cold cream solution.
Comment by F.A.Y. — December 31, 1969 #
upper roots or lower roots?
Comment by supremegoddessofall — December 31, 1969 #
I respect all hos!!! Why, I even take the time to check their roots when looking at the top of their heads….
Comment by F.A.Y. — December 31, 1969 #
<--self-respecting ho and proud of it.
Comment by supremegoddessofall — December 31, 1969 #
HAHAHA… oh, of all the places in my comment to cut off, it`s at `be respectful of your hos!` Don`t be dissresspeckin` yer hos.
Comment by Alena — December 31, 1969 #
When I was first introduced to weed, I had exactly the same feeling as you, Tory.. the kind of scary feeling of not being able to control my high. I thought then that I didn`t like it, that I liked booze better because I thought I could control it more. Years and many, many buds later… Well, I can hardly stand alcohol these days. Maybe it`s because I`m old and my body doesn`t handle being drunk as well as it used to, but these days whenever I drink (be it one or five), I end up feeling like warmed-over crap the next day. Weed, on the other hand, has become my drug of choice. Well, cigarettes, too, but I`m trying to quit. Not that I`m encouraging anyone to do drugs, but I think once you get used to the feeling and know what to expect, it`s WAY less scary and you learn ways to control your high. For me, if I eat or use Visine, my buzz gets taken down a few notches. As for parties or any other time you`re at someone else`s pad.. it`s only courteous to be respectful of your hos
Comment by Alena — December 31, 1969 #
I should clarify on the weed issue — I think if booze and smokes are legal then there`s no reason weed should be illegal (Step 1. Legalize. Step 2. Regulate. Step 3. Profit!!!). And no one actually blazed up at my house — in fact, the one dude who wanted to was insanely polite about asking permission. A buncha guests will just disappear for a while and come back smelling like a Pearl Jam concert. Heh.
Comment by Tory — December 31, 1969 #
And it`s real easy to control a high… just smoke less! And from my experience most people don`t stop at “a little drunk”. I`ve only seen two modes: buzzed and sloshed. With weed you can be lightheaded, marginally high, buzzed, stoned, or “cheech and chong”. You can control it by the quality and quantity you smoke and how you ingest it (smoking or eating).
Comment by F.A.Y. — December 31, 1969 #
I say no smoking in the house period unless it`s a small, friends-only party and everyone`s smoking. Otherwise, you go out back. If you`re throwing a big bash, then there`s definitely no smoking (too many damn narcs!!) or heavy drinking. When you`ve got small gatherings, then it`s much easier to do and be polite about if you go in the back yard. You don`t even have to wonder if I`m pro-herb, but I would be pissed if someone left seeds, stems, ashes, pipes, etc. in my house because that`s just rude. Clean up your mess!
Comment by F.A.Y. — December 31, 1969 #
wait–so this person was just chiefing and blazing away without your permission? and you didn`t throw them out? of course i`m pro-weed, i`m half jamaican ferchrissakes! but you don`t just walk into someone else`s place, *even if they have a half kicked bong sitting on the table* and roll up a fatty and start smoking it. at least go out back or something, damn. how rude.
Comment by staggerlee — December 31, 1969 #
aack — I was cut off!! I`m wordy! Anyhoo — I think it all boils down to good manners, or lack there of. I was super pissed when I found out someone was doing hard drugs at a party of ours a few years ago. We all have our levels of tolerance and comfort.
Comment by Shestumbledin — December 31, 1969 #
Brownies?!
I`ve never had anyone light up at a party of ours without first asking permission… and being sent to a separate room so as not to offend other guests. The last big bash we had was less than a month ago and the “smoke” room was our bedroom… which is also where the 2nd bathroom resides. Cut to a long line at the first bath later in the evening and next thing you know one of our more straight laced friends was directed to the master bath. When he emerged from the room minutes later, Reverend Tim said, “Dude, someone`s been smoking pot in your bedroom!” and then he winked. I was kidding about the vomiting thing. The attendees at the last bash ranged in age from 22-58, so they have varying degrees of assitude, but no one was out of control, and we all had a blast. Much as I wouldn`t light a cigarette in anyones home if there weren`t overflowing ashtrays laying around and a haze in the room, I certainly wouldn`t impose my house rules on anyone else. I think it
Comment by Shestumbledin — December 31, 1969 #
I`m with Sanguinity on the weed thing– you want to smoke it, that`s fine by me. It`s your body, do with it what you will. But not at my house. Not where I`m legally liable for its presence, and not where I have to deal with any lingering scents (for the record, I`m allergic, and I don`t want to wheeze for weeks just so you can get stoned and blow through the snacks meant for all the guests).
Comment by Amanda — December 31, 1969 #
SheStumbledIn –> Fine. Smoke it at parties where it`s welcome. And just to clarify, a party hostess doesn`t have to choose between stoned guests and vomiting guests: it`s quite possible to throw a party where neither thing happens. (That does depend somewhat on who you invite, though, and whether or not they think “party” means “license to be an ass”.)
Comment by Sanguinity — December 31, 1969 #
oh the anonymy.
Comment by katya — December 31, 1969 #
You go with the aggressive dog-owners-community-policing. Never having heard “dick-willing” in a sentence, it looks to me more like a wry substitute for “god willing”, used by men who routinely suffer impotence. Grandpa`s going to take Ethel from the shuffleboard league out to dinner and, dick willing, he won`t be back until tomorrow.
Comment by Anonymous — December 31, 1969 #
Dude, you lost me at “Weed, I`m against it”. It sucks that it`s illegal and I feel your paranoia, but I have to place myself firmly in the Pro-weed category. Maybe it`s my years of experience, but at parties drunks can get mean and violent — potheads, mostly eat a lot of Doritos. Plus no hangovers!! As for being more or less drunk, it`s been my experience that those who are a lot drunk generally tend to want to be even more drunk and then they vomit. Messy. Unfortunately I can`t go to the corner store and get weed, so my stoner days reside mostly in memories. I`ve never used a Mac — they don`t have an autosave feature?!
Comment by shestumbledin — December 31, 1969 #