THEY TRIED TO MAKE ME GO TO REHAB: but I said no no no ...
That idea was put to me today. But actually I said I would think about it ...
I have been in treatment twice before within a matter of months. But both times I was out the door within a week ...
Junkies are all boring. They're all the same. And I got fed up of being bundled in with a bunch of people on prison-swerves all muttering about who had done how much time where for doing what. Dull.
The doctor said today that he got the impression I was more intelligent than the average addict. I said (and this made them laugh) that addicts just pretend to be all thick.
Here's the basic rules for being a junkie
- Whatever the local accent is, adopt it, thicken it and make it your own. Speak it in a hoarse rough-sounding rasp. The kind of voice that would scare little children down dark alleys
- An addict cannot be sensitive. Kindness is a weakness. You must be tough and rough. The fact that I'm often taken to be soft annoys me most especially when people have the cheek to turn to me and inform me they're disappointed because I'm hard-centred! Better to be as I am than the weak and common herd, I always think.
- All junkies are thick. Speech must be ungrammatical and full of arcane slang. Thoroughly illiterate except for forging signatures on payment slips and cheques. Innumerate except for calculating bulk discount on multi-bag drugs buys. Conversely criminal "nous" is an utter must. I'm often taken as lacking in both of these things and how I love to ham my dimwittedness up often to much eye-rolling and tilting of heads. Of course my tormentors have always been to thick themselves to realize how neatly the tables have been turned...
- And you get my drift.
I said that I would think about it and I will.
But actually my first thought, on leaving the appointment, was, Will they have internet access?
Man! I am a child of our times ...
They tried to make me go to rehab and I said "maybe maybe maybe" ....
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Two blog recommendations of the day:
Chelle and Chel's Comical Observations
Christiano Ronaldo soccer vids blog
And one performance:
Madonna's Dangerous Liaisons Vogue performance
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O, & one more blog:
The Retrospectoscope - Brit doctor working in the States
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O and finally - I found this at The Disease Republik ...
SPAMMER PUNISHED! (at last!!)
a spammer who sent out 1,200,000 useless emails is to be punished for eleven years by an American court. Which means if he is rich and happens to be a hotel heiress he will get out within eleven days and exchange life in a vulgar sinbin for life locked in a luxury mansion with as much alcohol, drugs, pizza delivery, satellite TV, telephone services and internet as he can handle ... oh sorry that only happens to Paris Hilton. So she's claustrophobic. Should have thought of that before she went out driving while banned.
Everyone else has to ...
Click here for the full story ...
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OK one more blog: go see Kao's cats. The text is in Spanish but it's full of itchy tabbies having entertainment. OK they may not literally be itchy but the stipes kind of itch my brain in a very tabby way~OK??!?
tnx for droppin by my blog. pinoy(s) is slang for filipinos [people living in the philippines]
ReplyDeleteWhy not go? Maybe if you stayed longer than you did before, you'd have a running start at being addiction-free. Would that even be possible?
ReplyDeleteOr maybe just become an addict to something less harmful and potentially deadly. I'm addicted to cinnamon mints. I eat them compulsively. Much cheaper than cigarettes (which I had no choice in giving up).
Hope you're having a fab day, Gled.
Naomi you are dead right
ReplyDeleteGgirl I may do... just lemme think about it and stall 'em for a good few wks first!
Rehab?
ReplyDeletehere in Chile.. rehab is not raheb at all.. pyschologists think their day made if the addicts consume less of what they did before... like if an addict bought a hundred bucks in drug s a month, they hope this guy can reduce that to 20 a month... and then they leave him alone...
crappy, considering that these are government's rehab centres...
private ones and those who are dependant of church organizations or charity groups are more serious and they do help you there... so, Why don't you come to chile for rehab? it's cheaper and if you get bored of rehab drugs here are a lot cheaper too xD
see you! and visit my log if you want to... xD
100 bucks a month= 100g cocaine in Chile surely?
ReplyDeleteThat is frightening... I don't know if I know anyone who uses that much ... or ever has (for any extended length of time) ooer.
so "only" 20g in a month is an improvement ... hmmmm junkies are so good at lying you never know what to believe ...
btw can you get heroin in Chile? How much is it for a g?
I bet it's dead cheap. I know the Columbians make it nowadays ...
Thanks for your comment, I'm having a look right now ...
I really wish you would go...even if it means putting up with a load of useless spare parts as fellow rehabilitators( is there such a word?)...you seem such a fabulous person...if you could only kick the habit you could be ruler of your own world!
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I think you might just do okay in rehab Gled... but I agree - only if they have the internet, and only if it's fast.
ReplyDeleteHi Gledwood, With me goes everything very good. My English is not so good, but i can try it ;). How have you found my blog? I really like you message from Londen. I write poems in dutch language :). I am from the Netherlands, from Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht.. near Rotterdam. Do you know that place?
ReplyDeleteGreets, and have nice evening.
Alexander.
don't go to rehab until you come get high with me. hahaha.
ReplyDeletetaya.
spammers can suck it. being enslaved to anything sucks. i get the sense you're tired of heroin and the whole lifestyle... even if you get to use the cool lingo.
ReplyDeleteHi Gledwood.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment earlier! I'm quite chuffed. And if I can return the compliment, I'd like to say I find your blog equally interesting.
Good luck. And drop by anytime.
I think that rehab would be a good idea for you, because this time you have everyone that reads your blog behind you. If you ever need positive support im sure all of these people would be here for you, i know that i would.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of spam and computers, we had no school for a few days because some kid sent an e-mail to the school computer system saying that he would blow it up. How exciting.
It turns out that the FBI kneew about this for weeks and decided to alert the local police the night before. Just goes to show how well the american system works.
The kid was spoken to. Thats it.
I'm not going to nag because, honestly, if you haven't found something that "fits" for you, it's pointless. Only you know what will work for you. My advice is dabble in different things (if you want to) and see if anything seems right. You may not be ready and are content with life as it is.
ReplyDeleteBut, whatever you do, you are a friend and a very interesting person and I'm behind you either way.
Your blog is always so interesting to read. Thanks for blog recommendations..
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed my quick visit> I need more time to read all that you have here... sandy
Bloody hell, Gleds, you've just described my brother!
ReplyDeletehi gled,
ReplyDeleteread the part bout being a junkie&what u should do to be one.
here in holland all junkies eat yoghurt or vanillia pudding (vla). you HAVE to eat it otherwise your not a junkie! still 2 weeks before departure...getting kind of a tension inside my body.
IEEEEEEEE SCARY!!!
hope u ok!chau claire
Ruth: detox I'm useless at (the actual 10 days or so of coming off the drugs that have kept me functioning these years) crying, hours in the counselling rooms etc ... Rehab I'd probably be v good at (have been told by cynical friends - I take on b.s. v well: hmmm...) I don't know I am thinking about it
ReplyDeleteNicole: definitely it has to have internet even just so I can post. I'm too addicted to blogging now to live without it by any kind of choice
Alexander: thanks for the message. Don't know the place I'm afraid
Taya: but where do I find you??!?
Raffi: you're spot on there ... what is the cool lingo though? I never try to use cool lingo..! O no that means I've absorbed it without realizing. The worst!
CJ: cheers dears!
ReplyDeleteSquamer: o dear!
Deb: I'm looking into going to a Therapeutic Community thing where not everyone is a drug addict. Other people are recovering from different aspects of "life" that sounds far more interesting
Sandy: thank you!
ReplyDeletePuss-in-Boots: ooer!
Claire: never heard of that particular dietary quirk. Junkies love sweets tho, of that u r surely right... 2 wks to Guatemala: have you warned them? Surely they will not know what is about to hit them!!
That is a fantastic description of a junkie! I don't know any - that I am aware of - but I shall keep my eyes open for anyone meeting your description.
ReplyDeleteLiz: hi I kind of popped in here. What did I say ..?
ReplyDeleteO! I remember now.
Yeah haha!! ;->...