Cursing and Smoking to Take the Pain Out?

It's been a while since I've seriously blogged. Here is my top five.

5) July Fourth Weekend was awesome. Saw Wicked with Melissa and her family at the Orpheum in San Francisco. After months of wondering why everyone is so crazy about this musical...I understand why now. It was just awesome!

Afterward, I spent the rest of the evening with the family at American Canyon. I love Independence Day in our city. Despite being so "small town" ish, I think a holiday like this makes our tiny community shine even further. Not to mention I love the fireworks show! I also like the booths that they put up in a nearby baseball field. They even have these small bands that do cover songs. I don't really pay attention to the music, but they're pretty good. The one guy drunk with Budweiser and dancing solo makes the testament that it was a pretty damn good festival.

The one thing I've noticed about myself is that I'm a little racist. Well, not so much racist, but rather I like to amplify stereotypes. It's hilarious to me, and to some of the people that I tend to hang out with (I hope), but I seriously think this will bite me in the ass in the future if I don't control myself.

4) I'm hella addicted to Sonic's and their drinks. Especially during Happy Hour. You can't pass on a large Strawberry Slush for about one dollar. You just can't! Even though pretty much it's just sugar, water, and red color (with a small amount of strawberry puree I suspect).

If you've been to Sonic's, you know what I'm talking about.

3) I love my Anatomy class at the moment! Even though it's on the summer and it's pretty fast paced. However, being a product of the University of California, I'm used to fast paced.

It's also interesting to meet the people at the community college. Since it's summer, a lot of them are from other schools. However, especially during the regular year, the diversity and the goals are just spread throughout! Well sort of. Many of the goals are nursing, nursing, nursing...and also a few physical therapists. There's also old people in the classes making those massive career changes at the moment.

Speaking of which, my advice to myself and to everyone else who reads this is to really be sure of what you want to do with your life. I feel like this is a piece of advice that everyone knows, but no one wants to follow or considers it not worth our attention. I talked to my friend who I took BME classes with and wondered what our top classmates were doing. They are in the top schools, doing research, and are now having second thoughts about what they got themselves into. I'm just saying that it really blows that you are working so hard getting the top grades and going to the top graduate programs...and you are getting cold feet.

Ain't that a bitch.

2) Our state is going insane! It's going to the point where I'm even considering moving out of the state of California. Maybe the East Coast or something. It's simply a welfare state without the consequences of support all those programs (a.k.a. the extremely high taxes, even though we do have one of the highest if not the highest tax rates in the country!).

One of the big solutions (and there are many drastic, revolutionary changes being considered) is to legalize marijuana for casual use. A lot of people are for this at the moment. Well, a lot of the people that I've talked to at least. However, I'm a little hesitant. First, people are saying that it will eliminate the drug violence in our state if we do legalize it. I've read an article on The Economist about the results of legalizing marijuana in The Netherlands has been. Drug violence, while it has decreased a bit, has not been completely eliminated. I think it will be the same for this state. We say that we can tax the hell out the marijuana and ease our budget woes. However, I think there still will be black market growers that will try to elude the tax collectors and collect 100% of the profits, which is connected to why the drug violence isn't necessarily going to go away if we do this!

At the same time, it is true that marijuana is not as potent a drug as the others (I do believe that drug addicts in general should be put in rehab programs and not our prisons). Also, if we legalize it, we may find that while the first few years or decades will be insane, that this drug will go away with the dodo, especially when we finally legitimize the side effects which so many swear does not exist for marijuana (just look at how unpopular cigarettes are nowadays).

I'm torn on this issue, but I do currently lean on "no". Also, even though California does legalize marijuana, it's still illegal in Federal Standards, and the last thing I need is the DEA busting my door and getting a human booster shot in a Federal prison, if you get my drift. However, I do support marijuana for medicinal purposes.

If our state legislators are seriously thinking that we are going to get out of this deficit by getting high, I swear I will work hard to ensure that they all get out of office!

1) Did something extremely painful like cutting your finger or stubbing your toe? Here's the solution...swear! There was an article that stated that cursing actually makes the pain a tad more tolerable than if you were otherwise more "civilized". So it does work when I scream "FUCK" whenever I stub my toe!

However, note that if you curse more so in your casual conversations, it will not be as effective compared to if you only curse when you do get into these painful situations.

It's just confirming what an overwhelming majority of people do.

That is all.