What a crazy week...started a new job and had all sorts of training to go through. Still not done but hopefully will start some work next week. It isn't a permanent job. I'm half time in two places for the same organization, one of those positions is just summer (unless money for the project holds out) and the other is until I graduate (also assuming the money holds out).
At any rate, since I moved to Flagstaff mid-semester, my apartment is a mess and today, being a day that I have no homework because the semester is over and a day off of crazy work, I will start tidying up my surroundings.
Heading back to Jerome on Sunday for a memorial. More death. Young...30. He was an alcoholic for sure, but apparently he misjudged the amount of oxycontin he was taking and ended up ODing (so is the word on the street, which may or may not be correct). His death is yet another sad example of how young adults are trapped in drugs and alcohol in that community. We've had a few deaths of folks 30 and under in the past year because of the same thing. Alcoholism, speed, and prescription drugs are normal life for many there, which is not okay. And the sad thing is, his friends will mark his memorial by getting trashed.
These kids are so far under that to be sober could kill them. One of this guy's friends went to court-ordered rehab three years ago. He had to be put into a coma for a week because of the severity of his alcohol addiction. Within 24 hours of being out of his 30 day program, one of his idiot friends handed him a beer at a local music festival and it started all over again. These kids drink 40+ beers a day, they barely eat, and they hardly remember day to day. I'd hesitate to call them "functioning" because they don't hold jobs and depend on parents to give them money, which those parents do. They enable their children to keep the cycle going.
At any rate, since I moved to Flagstaff mid-semester, my apartment is a mess and today, being a day that I have no homework because the semester is over and a day off of crazy work, I will start tidying up my surroundings.
Heading back to Jerome on Sunday for a memorial. More death. Young...30. He was an alcoholic for sure, but apparently he misjudged the amount of oxycontin he was taking and ended up ODing (so is the word on the street, which may or may not be correct). His death is yet another sad example of how young adults are trapped in drugs and alcohol in that community. We've had a few deaths of folks 30 and under in the past year because of the same thing. Alcoholism, speed, and prescription drugs are normal life for many there, which is not okay. And the sad thing is, his friends will mark his memorial by getting trashed.
These kids are so far under that to be sober could kill them. One of this guy's friends went to court-ordered rehab three years ago. He had to be put into a coma for a week because of the severity of his alcohol addiction. Within 24 hours of being out of his 30 day program, one of his idiot friends handed him a beer at a local music festival and it started all over again. These kids drink 40+ beers a day, they barely eat, and they hardly remember day to day. I'd hesitate to call them "functioning" because they don't hold jobs and depend on parents to give them money, which those parents do. They enable their children to keep the cycle going.