Ethics and Religion and Life

Re-synchronizing with grapefruit

I kid you not, lately i've been eating a whole grapefruit a day and each time i eat a half it's like health-replenishment/mind-body-resynching. it's insanity.

And now its getting me to do all these weird healthy things, like go out for walks, and workout and now i'm going to abstain from smoking weed for a whole week.
for those of you who DONT know me that well, one week of not getting high is like a month. But after the first... 3 weeks it starts to go away. I think it's all the THC in ma belly. but when i was in korea, the withdrawl was killing me. and by that i dont mean nicotine withdrawl just the urge to get baked, was all around. I had to start swigging scotch until i found the right balance between music, episodes of the office, a girl and fifa 08. Now that i've finished watching the office, and that i don't have a good fifa opponent as well as a lack of fems in the girl department i'm pretty much screwed for no weed for two months. BUT I think I can fight myself and hold off for like a week, just to prove to myself.
SO.
today i'm going to get really high til about 11 pm. then tomorrow i'm gonna eat a morning grapefruit, study for greek, then continue in that trend until wednesday when the greek test is over, then i'm gonna have to kick it into high gear, and see if a blend between working out, playing tekken 6 with abdul, writing songs and making food will be able to hold off the beast. For ... 4 days i think i can. y'know because until wednesday i'm pretty much gonna be preoccupied otherwise. maybe i'll study for the LSATs...

Who would have thought you'd get crap when doing charity work...

So. today i decided to finally dust off the collections book for the ontario march of dimes and do my route on ellisson way. To begin, the march of dimes is basically a great charity that works on helping the physically disabled acclimate into society and their community through giving them jobs and helping them with donations and other good things for those who need it.

Now ellisson way is a suburb street in ottawa south where i used to live at. I did the march of dimes on ellisson way a couple of years ago (my grade 11 year i think) and although i didn't get too many donations, I wasn't exactly disgusted with people, i was happy enough to do an imperfect duty for the less fortunate, and to help better the world in my small way.

Now. Today I went to do my regular route. Of the 29 houses that I stopped by, 3 donated money (two of whom were my neighbors, the other house being the former volunteers for the march of dimes), 3 houses were unoccupied, 2 houses at least bothered to ask what the march of dimes was before declining, 1 house had a man who claimed he had "donated at work" , 19 declined without even bothering to hear about the charity, and one home had the gall to scream at me as i left their driveway.

The exact story of the screaming bitch is as follows.
The time was 7:57, I rang their doorbell to be greeted by a chorus of yappy dogs barking. after about 10 minutes i left a brochure. As I left some crabby middle aged woman took the brochure and screamed out "it's a load of garbage" and "I was sleeping, some people have to work tomorrow you know!" it was 7:57.. not even 9. Honestly who sleeps that early to go to a job that must suck THAT much.
I screamed back in reply that it wasnt my fault she had yappy dogs and that she went to sleep at the stupidest hour.

needless to say i'm pretty disgusted with the middle class.
One thing that aggravates me the most is that I was just doing something nice for people and that the cold hearted bitch had the gall to scream at me. what an anus.

anyhow. Another interesting fact is that of the 29 houses i stopped by, 26 of them had dogs.

so now i dont think i'm going to do the march of dimes on ellisson if at all. but who knows, i just might find the heart to do something charitable in another 3-4 years, that being after i torment the cold hearted bitch's house.
but you didn't hear that from me ;)

The number one thing that i will forever despise (now that we're two days into 2010)

and now ladies and gentlemen (or maybe just gents, or maybe nobody at all for that matter...) ahem.

The NUMBER ONE thing i will forever despise.

People who sing offkey.

not even just that but when its offkey and its a song i loive, or when it's the new POPSTAR kids something something when they sing some great hits and completely butcher and bastardize the song for their own little profit. Watching those commercials is pretty much like taking a giant samurai sword and slowly shaving off pieces of my face. its THAT brutal.

and with that we enter 2010.
a few lessons i have learned this year:
1. never ever ever ever buy something online that is not going to be shipped to you. i.e. a blog with the promise of ad revenue. because no matter what the whole "spend money to make money" adage is only right in terms of actual investments. online ones unless they are e-commerce related are generally gonna keep you in the dark with 10 less dollars in your pocket.

2. although you may not know what may come in the future, it's generally not a bad idea to take a bit of time to think about it and not lock yourself into something wily nily. I know i know, a lot of normal people actually think. This lesson i learned is for the idiots like me, if there are any at all like me.

3. keeping friends may be hard, but a relationship is only as strong as the bonds made after tribulation.

4. remember no matter what happens, as long as you are the best person within then you are the best person for you.