Harm Reduction
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thepnutgalleryI woke up feeling rather rested. Early bedtime and no booze, I suppose. I couldn't find my mask, but I zipped over to the store because I was out of creamer, also snagged cat food and a few other things. My new stray friend was eating when I got home, so I closed the curtains so Lady Miss Friday didn't disturb his meal.
I remembered the meeting, and it prompted me to dehobo myself. It got me wondering how far I'd sink as an actual hermit. I was the first person in, and everyone commented when they got there....about how good it was to see Lady Miss Friday. I'm certainly not fighting that one. Advantage of having been so productive this week so far is that I'm a little ahead. I got all my claims processed and/or tagged, all my mail done, case offers, and started working up the *many* NOAs that came in for my digits.
Since I try to share just one post per day, so I'm not spamming everyone, today's was an article about how much of Blue Lives Matter is pretext for racism. I'm happy to share things like this for folks who agree and can look at citations and statistics without Denial and cognitive dissonance...but I was also hoping someone would jump up to defend them. I know, bloodthirsty is not a cute look.
I started looking into harm reduction for addicts. Naturally, I was mostly just hoping to find an alternative drug or chemical. But it's a fascinating topic, and at least on scratching the surface, I felt like I was reading about my own psychology.
As long as I'm being honest, I'd sort of hoped to go food-free again, but I made it to dinner and started drinking, then finished off the soy curls from the other day. I knew it was coming before I started drinking, and made my peace with it so I didn't scream at myself for "failing."
I remembered the meeting, and it prompted me to dehobo myself. It got me wondering how far I'd sink as an actual hermit. I was the first person in, and everyone commented when they got there....about how good it was to see Lady Miss Friday. I'm certainly not fighting that one. Advantage of having been so productive this week so far is that I'm a little ahead. I got all my claims processed and/or tagged, all my mail done, case offers, and started working up the *many* NOAs that came in for my digits.
Since I try to share just one post per day, so I'm not spamming everyone, today's was an article about how much of Blue Lives Matter is pretext for racism. I'm happy to share things like this for folks who agree and can look at citations and statistics without Denial and cognitive dissonance...but I was also hoping someone would jump up to defend them. I know, bloodthirsty is not a cute look.
I started looking into harm reduction for addicts. Naturally, I was mostly just hoping to find an alternative drug or chemical. But it's a fascinating topic, and at least on scratching the surface, I felt like I was reading about my own psychology.
As long as I'm being honest, I'd sort of hoped to go food-free again, but I made it to dinner and started drinking, then finished off the soy curls from the other day. I knew it was coming before I started drinking, and made my peace with it so I didn't scream at myself for "failing."
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Date: 2020-08-25 05:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-08-26 12:59 am (UTC)Hilarious, but as I write it....sort of uncomfortably true, too.