The sad part is my vials didn't see much use. I'm just so happy that I was able to get a vacuum, that eases the pain of my belongings turning to dust somewhat.

150$ for tickets to BlizzCon, and god knows how much for tickets to fly to Vegas to stay with my mom for those 3 days of awesomeness. :'( Wtb a life as a rich person.

Oh well, probably going to nag my dad to get the ppv on DirecTV again this year.

Quitting smoking really sucks.

But at least you don't have a shark on your arm!

Right?

Look on the bright side: It's not as bad as quittin heroin, from what I can tell.

While it is awesome that I'm not a junkie, that doesn't make it any easier.

At least my boyfriend will be pleased when he gets home from his train job tomorrow. I'm on my fifth batch of cookies, since I'm trying to occupy myself.

No-o-o, don't do that. Coffee perhaps? Tea? Gum? Quitting smoking slows your metabolism down to begin with.

I know it's hard, though. I was a smoker from age 14-23. I gradually cut back to about 5 cigarettes per day, then went cold turkey. It was completely awful.

The first week of non-smoking was actually easy. The second week was uncomfortable... the third week was a nightmare. After that though, it started to get easier. The actual desire to smoke took months to go away even after the addiction passed.

Well good for you for quitting, at least, and on Riluna for trying.

My mom just relapsed (when she already has suspected lung cancer, clever girl) and my brother is failing and quitting right now, though I'm trying to guilt him into giving it a proper try

I couldn't afford to smoke if I wanted to. Definitely not at 14 and probably not at 24, but then again I am kind of miserly.

I think she means she's baking batches of cookies, not eating them.

Unless I'm wrong, of course.

Well, maybe a little of both. Fresh-out-of-the-oven cookies are the best part of baking. And you have to try at least one of every batch to make sure they're good.

Except now evidently I'm going to get fat, since I'm not going to smoke anymore.

Not if you exercise more! Go for a long walk everyday or something similar. It'll burn some of those cookie calories so you can enjoy cookies whenever you like, help your metabolism, help build the lung capacity back up AND release endorphins in your brain.

Addiction is just awful all around. From what I gather, it basically teaches the body that it needs and desires the focus of the addiction.

Trying to break an addiction, as I remember it, is like... trying to hold your breath for far longer than your body is willing to, only in super slow-mo. At first, when you stop breathing, you're fine (week one of quitting smoking). Then, you start to get a bit flustered (week two of quitting smoking). After that, the need to breathe becomes urgent and agonizing (week three of quitting smoking).

Past week three, the addiction starts to pass, because in reality you don't need smoking.

If you've never smoked before, that's as good an example as any to get a faint idea of what it's like to quit (in my opinion).

I'm not addicted to caffeine! I could stop anytime I wanted. I just don't want to.

Well, because of my utter lack of motivation to study recently I am still working on an assignment that is due by midday today. It is almost completed aside from checking the references, which is lucky because it's now 2am and I still have to turn up for work tomorrow.

Ohhh darling GHZ-states, why did I think you would make an interesting topic for my dissertation? I should have done a computing degree, I wouldn't have had to think so much for that.

I want to take a course called Directed Studies for my freshman university year, which is basically covering the literature, philosophy and politics of Western thought from Homer onwards. Sound great? You bet. However, it's selective, has an application deadline about 2 weeks off, and wants to know what the most interesting course I took in high school was. Quite apart from getting writer's block right when it hurts, my school also does not divide lessons into courses beyond the generic "this is a science course". Bloody American-centric applications.

Play up the whole foreign bit. Frou-frou liberal arts people like that sort of thing.

It's in Anaheim, CA. o.O Is Vegas that close to Anaheim?

There's nothing like visiting your family/old high school for a week to remind you why you were so eager to leave in the first place.

Well, the drive to San Fransisco is about 2 hours, and Anaheim is on the way. I wanna say it is only about an hour. So yea it'd be smarter to stay in Vegas and drive there and back.

Is so very sick... it's so horrible. I don't know what's wrong with me