A Challenge

Ok, so I’ve said this in real life and I’ll repeat it here for record and your amusement:

I hereby declare I shall not shave until I’ve passed all my mid-year tests and get my account straight.

And yes, This means I’ll look pretty dumb for few next weeks, so keep your fingers crossed.

P.S. The only exception I will allow is to fix my “beard” a little bit if it starts looking really bad, but nothing more.

I’m going wrong

I had to open one of my boxes to replace a faulty network card

I opened it

I replaced it

I tried to close the box only to find I’ve put all the screws somewhere.

I crawled from under my desk

I tried to search for the missing screws using Beagle on my laptop.

Damn, I need a girlfriend.

What really makes one think

I’m not easily influenced by what I watch or what I read. Watching about 3 good films and 5 books per month on average (ok, the numbers have gone down a lot in last 4 months but they are back at their normal level) I have seen and read enough to make sure I can’t take everything for granted. I have learned to keep a critical view on everything I receive and to apply a healthy dose of skepticism to it. I may admire the form of a great and condemn the message, as I do with “Battleship Potemkin”. To put it straight, I never change my views according to what someone told me, I merely adjust them if I decide that some extra data contradicts what I thought earlier.
There is however one movie that made me make up my mind on a subject I hadn’t gon an opinion on earlier. I’m talking about Trainspotting here. This movie revolves about a story of Mark Renton, a Scottish drug addict. I almost literaly kicks your ass showing drug addiction problem in an straight-in-your-face style. The scenes of Mark Renton’s overdose effects or his cold turkey addiction quitting are shocking (especially the former and difficult to forget. While I find it pessimistic since it’s showing both drug addict’s and normal life as ultimately senseless, there is an optimistic, yet sarcastic accent at the end.
Enough about the movie, I can’t describe it well anyway. What I’m trying to say is that after watching this one I could never seriously think about trying drugs. Simply, what I saw was too shocking yet seems way too credible to easily discard. I have had several occasions to try some marijuana, and felt tempted, but always turned them down. I know weed isn’t the same as heroine, but still I felt I shouldn’t try it.
I’m not talking about believing I shouldn’t alter my way of thinking or perceiving reality by getting intoxinated. If I thought like that I wouldn’t get drunk once in a while. Instead I’m too well aware of how easily I can get addicted to something and after watching Trainspotting I’m hell afraid something like that might happen to me. So right now, no drugs for me and I guess it won’t change in future.
DISCLAIMER: I’m aware I may laugh about what I wrote here sometime later. Yet this is my wat of thinking as of right now.