Whatever happens, from hereon in, one thing will remain the same. Madonna will always be ten years older than me...

I handed in the drug policy paper. Now it's violence. Thank-you to all who sent me ideas, I appreciate it.

I feel a bit better, mentally. I seem to have managed to get the delusions/obsessions under control. Or they're controlling me and I've become comfortable with it, it's hard to know which.

When Reagan died, I was standing at work watching the news coverage on the tvs at the Telus store, and one of my customers, a man who drives his wife to work at one of the stores in the mall, came up. We had the following conversation.

Customer: So, Reagan's still dead.
Me: Still dead?
Customer: Yup, I've always said he died in that assassination attempt, and they replaced him with an actor.
Me: There's a name for that sort of theory, you know. Impostor something-or-other. It goes along with thinking that people have been replaced by aliens.
Customer: I can't talk about that with you. You're probably an alien. Why did they raise the prices on the lottery?
Me: I don't know. It's a conspiracy.
Customer: Damn aliens, they're everywhere.

I don't know why, but "tigger is gay" on this list made me laugh quite a lot. I know, I'm procrastinating.

Here we go. Summer has arrived, it seems, kids are playing with water balloons and my garden's growing nicely. Trying a different kind of lettuce this year, a red variety, and green beans instead of yellow. Had a couple of good weeks of rain.

Almost finished the harm reduction paper, it just needs a concluding paragraph. Which is good, because it's due tomorrow. Then I've got two more for this term. One on violence and one on euthanasia. I'm supposed to discuss whether I think society is more violent than it was in the 1950's. Not sure why they picked that decade, but oh well. If anyone has any thoughts, please share them with me...

green. what do you think?