The great war of our generation, is with the illogical

Last night something finally snapped. Kid A (I will call him) decided it was in his best interest to not take his medication. It was nearing 10:30, and I knew the result of him failing to do so would be a sleepless night for him, and most likely his roommate too. The next day would only bring a deeper spiral out of control as his bipolar disorder took over. So I reasoned with him. I pleaded the case for taking the pill, but Kid A refused. I asked why he wouldn't and he said, "I want to get angry so I can kill Kid B!" To which I merely said, that is not going to happen Kid A, I won't allow it, so it's pointless to not take the medication.
"I DON'T CARE!" said Kid A.
I want to get angry.
This conversation went on for what felt like an eternity. Far longer than it should have...
It ended with me calling his parents, and him taking the pill after 20 minutes on the phone.

Afterward I asked him what his parents had said. He said, "Well, they told me that tomorrow was Monday, and that killing someone on Monday was frowned upon."

I shook my head...and quickly agreed.

Later that night I went downstairs to watch Friday the 13th with some of the staff. I generally detest scary movies, but once I start watching one, I have to finish! It's the suspense of it all, no matter how awful it is, I have to know JUST how awful it ends. So I watched it to its conclusion, and as i suspected everyone in the movie was retarded/died/will have died soon after the movie concluded (just trust me and don't start watching). YES, it was scary, but I never quite understood what it is that people find good about being scared.

So I went to bed, locked my door, and began thinking of Kid A somehow finding his way into my room with his 3 iron or something. I woke up three times during the night, once because I forgot to turn off my alarm for 230AM (gotta catch them campers sneakin out on thursday ya know) and twice because the fans blew my door against the hinges making a loud thud. Each time I jumped out of my skin, and did a lap of the room and hall to make sure everything was ok.

F the illogical

Youth but not youth

It saddens me greatly to see the state of today's youth. Two days ago I talked to a child that had had sex with two different people, one of whom was later described as, "a walking STD". She continued by saying that she had an inexplicable love of "spics" (it was ok for her to call them that, because she hangs out with them and they call themselves that so its like totally whatever). She was 14.

Furthermore, we have a child who's soul purpose in life is to make everyone around him more miserable. He is blatantly racist, has made numerous inappropriate comments to all of our black staff and campers. We won't get rid of him because of the love of the almighty dollar, and when we repremand him he cries and cries and cries but changes nothing. He is 13.

We have a child who has twice almost killed his twin brother via stabbing. He takes more pills a day than I have in my entire life. He held his family hostage with a knife and sent a kid to the hospital at a wrestling match. He lives two doors down from me, and I lock my door every night. He is 12.

For every case of a bad child, every pharmacutical ridden preteen, every sex-crazed teenager in camp there is one who is perfectly nice, and capable of some level of respect and self sufficiency. But the ratio is as close to 1:1 as i've ever seen.

I fear for my unborn child. For these are the children of the well to do.

the death nell of online poker, cheerleaders, and DC

Okay folks, lot to talk about very little time. Speaking of time its winding down here at "The Tower"...we're moving out soon and the place looks more and more vacated by the day. Dan is long gone, with his bootiful TV, and my measly 32 inch stands in its place. As for the others, sam and brian are in the process of exodus, and peacock and I are frantically searching/applying for houses in the district. Next year should prove to be the best year of my life...assuming a few things.

Before discussing some sobering news, I was stationed in the Rio sport and health in Gaithersburg for my charity advertising work. I thought it was going to be another boring day, but fate had the Redskin cheerleaders in store for me. An hour into my pitching of random people to let me rear their children (OMG HE WANTS TO REAR YOUR CHILD!!!! GET HIM!!!!) These beautiful girls dressed in street clothes passed nodding and smiling etc. etc.
They disappeared into the girls room and never in my life had i more wanted to be a fly on a wall. Anyways 20 minutes later they emerged in full redskinette garb (or non-garb) as it were. 3 more beautiful women I had not seen in quite some time. They we're overseeing the opening of a new energy drink store inside the gym...and the patrons that day we're overseeing them. It was hilarious. Bottom line is I got some pics and some signatures for my boys (as a better chance to brag probably would not present itself for quite some time). I chatted with them for a bit about their non-scantily clad jobs and one was a teacher of highschoolers, and the other was a lawyer...and I cursed my decision to not go to law school.

Sigh now for the sad news. Online poker suffered a serious blow today. 30 million was seized in cashouts from pokerstars and full tilt. This means one of two things... America is after poker players money, or poker players souls. By this I mean, the government wants to either tax the crap out of poker while leaving it legal....or they want to shut us down completely. Either way, we lose. The only positive that can come out of this is that we may show that we are partaking in a game of skill not of luck, leading to widespread legalization of the game. There is a bill in congress that would allow us based casinos to set up websites (something previously illegal) if a state deemed it legal to do so. Utah and hawaii have already said...no no this will not be legal in our state, but there is still hope for large states like cali and ny to allow it which would expand the player base by millions if it were easier to get money online. Anyway...here is the article courtesy of Sharon L.
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB124459561862800591-lMyQjAxMDI5NDE0MDUxOTA1Wj.html


anyhow...more to come on this later I'm sure
best,
Trev

WOOOOOOW really? june? really?

why?

in other news, tennessee trip to see gma was fun, didn't end up making any of last month's goals, and if today is going to be any indicator of june...welll FU JUNE!