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Feb. 1st, 2009 07:36 pmDid a group ride to St. John's today, and because of how the group split up, I still haven't been to Cathedral Park. Maybe I'll go up there later this week, just on my own. Now that I'm not commuting to work, I'm not getting enough exercise, and I can tell.
On the way home I stopped at Videorama and rented Persepolis. I've seen it before but it was right when it came out.
Books are almost always better than their movies. Persepolis was such a fantastic book that I worried about it becoming a movie when I found out. But I think it's entirely possible that the movie is better than the book! Maybe I shouldn't compare them, though. They're both wonderful. You should read the book and see the movie too.
The only problem I have with the movie, and watching the special features afterward, is that everyone is smoking all the damn time. Marjane Satrapi, in real life, is a heavy smoker. When I went to see her speak at the Schnitz last year, she was cranky about not being able to smoke while talking, especially since she was so nervous. (Her first words upon getting to the podium: "Oh my god, there are so many of you.")
So watching the movie etc. really makes me want a cigarette, and I quit in December. I have some cloves, and I'm sure I have a half pack of American Spirits somewhere. BUT I WILL RESIST, DAMMIT.
Note to self: I really need to stop getting into discussions with people who have ADD but don't take meds. I always find their reasoning infuriating and illogical. It's frustrating because it so often happens with friends and people I otherwise respect.
I do find it amusing, but not all that surprising, that such a high number of people in the cycling circles I hang out with are ADD.
I know it's a touchy issue with me. Almost nothing makes me angrier faster than seeing someone with uninformed reasons for not taking ADD meds. Am I just defensive? I don't think so. I don't think I'm taking the easy way out or anything.
I think it's just knowing that people are letting their lives be so much harder than they have to be. I hate having to go without meds. I hate having a fuzzy brain and not being able to focus and realizing I'm interrupting people (more than usual) or being obnoxious or not getting anything done. Why would anyone in their right mind live that way on purpose when they don't have to?!
I know the analogy of comparing ADD meds to glasses is probably overdone, but it's such a damn good analogy. My meds don't cure my ADD, they don't even really make me completely "normal" when I take them, but they do help me be happier and less frustrated.
I feel like I have a bunch of adult friends with severe nearsightedness who won't wear glasses because, y'know, they don't want to get dependent on them. That's just the way their eyes are, they should just get used to it. They don't want to rely on something outside of themselves to see. They'll never get good at seeing on their own if they wear glasses. That reasoning is asinine if you're nearsightedness, does it make any more sense if we're talking about stimulant medication for ADD?
On the way home I stopped at Videorama and rented Persepolis. I've seen it before but it was right when it came out.
Books are almost always better than their movies. Persepolis was such a fantastic book that I worried about it becoming a movie when I found out. But I think it's entirely possible that the movie is better than the book! Maybe I shouldn't compare them, though. They're both wonderful. You should read the book and see the movie too.
The only problem I have with the movie, and watching the special features afterward, is that everyone is smoking all the damn time. Marjane Satrapi, in real life, is a heavy smoker. When I went to see her speak at the Schnitz last year, she was cranky about not being able to smoke while talking, especially since she was so nervous. (Her first words upon getting to the podium: "Oh my god, there are so many of you.")
So watching the movie etc. really makes me want a cigarette, and I quit in December. I have some cloves, and I'm sure I have a half pack of American Spirits somewhere. BUT I WILL RESIST, DAMMIT.
Note to self: I really need to stop getting into discussions with people who have ADD but don't take meds. I always find their reasoning infuriating and illogical. It's frustrating because it so often happens with friends and people I otherwise respect.
I do find it amusing, but not all that surprising, that such a high number of people in the cycling circles I hang out with are ADD.
I know it's a touchy issue with me. Almost nothing makes me angrier faster than seeing someone with uninformed reasons for not taking ADD meds. Am I just defensive? I don't think so. I don't think I'm taking the easy way out or anything.
I think it's just knowing that people are letting their lives be so much harder than they have to be. I hate having to go without meds. I hate having a fuzzy brain and not being able to focus and realizing I'm interrupting people (more than usual) or being obnoxious or not getting anything done. Why would anyone in their right mind live that way on purpose when they don't have to?!
I know the analogy of comparing ADD meds to glasses is probably overdone, but it's such a damn good analogy. My meds don't cure my ADD, they don't even really make me completely "normal" when I take them, but they do help me be happier and less frustrated.
I feel like I have a bunch of adult friends with severe nearsightedness who won't wear glasses because, y'know, they don't want to get dependent on them. That's just the way their eyes are, they should just get used to it. They don't want to rely on something outside of themselves to see. They'll never get good at seeing on their own if they wear glasses. That reasoning is asinine if you're nearsightedness, does it make any more sense if we're talking about stimulant medication for ADD?
