Category: drugs

So Very Tempting

July 1, 2010 / / 0 Comments

I was propositioned by a crack whore today.

There’s a corner up the street from our office where I’m reasonably certain I saw a crack deal go down a few weeks ago.  I can’t say for certain that’s what it was, but it certainly appeared to be the case: the partially concealed handing of something small from one man  to another, followed by a furtive hand shoved into a filthy pocket and a brisk walk away.  Plenty of crackheads in Belltown.

I and some coworkers were walking up the street on this same corner.  A woman sat stretched across the knee-height cinder block retaining wall.  As we crossed to her side of the street, she looked me directly in the eyes and smacked her lips three times with a loud popping sound, opening her mouth wide each time.

That’s… that’s not what I was think it was.  Right?  I mean, after Friday’s weirdness, the odds of additional weirdness so soon are really, really low.  And really, that’s her sales pitch?  Does that actually work?

I continued pondering this just long enough for my coworkers to start laughing.

The Big Reset, part 6

March 7, 2008 / / 1 Comment

4:16pm, Friday

This will be my last update. I can’t imagine that anyone has actually bothered to read all of these, and I’m tired of writing them.

I’m now onto the Monster Energy “supplement.” It tastes like Mellow Yellow flavored with piss and rancid grapefruit. My only hope is that the flavors assaulting my tongue were added to cover stunning amounts of powerful, semi-legal stimulants. Otherwise, this crap is awful.

In utterly unrelated news, I bruised the everliving shit out of my fingertips trying to play guitar today. (Not Guitar Hero. The real thing. I find it strange that an acoustic guitar, electronic tuner, neck strap, lesson book, DVD, and strings are half the price of Guitar Hero III and a Wii.) I was practicing for… an hour, maybe? My sense of time is fairly warped right now.

After looking for really basic songs for a while, I came across Johnny Cash’s Hurt. I played the first three notes and noticed that my fingertips seemed to have been crushed in a vise. It’s probably going to be a few days before I can play again.

If you missed all of these, and you probably did, start here.

The Big Reset, part 5

March 7, 2008 / / 0 Comments

12:21pm, Friday

My last post was done on my iPhone, which is why it’s terse and poorly spelled.

Dear god, I need caffeine. It’s been a very frustrating morning. I started off by going to the car repair shop (“We have to special order the parts. It’s going to be $400.”), followed by the doctor’s office (“I don’t know what’s wrong with you. Go see a dentist.”), and finishing with a trip to the dentist (“The soonest we can get you in is twenty days from today.”).

I’m having the Red Bull now. I’m not reviewing it. Never having tried Red Bull is like saying you’ve never seen Star Wars: if you haven’t by now, you probably never will. But everyone else you know already has.

I’m done with driving for the rest of the day, for obvious reasons.