This is an email from my mother. There are no words. I did not respond.

Hi,

I changed my mind about your calling (and calling, etc...) your doctors. They obviously aren't helping you feel better, or get healthier. On the contrary, I think they are making you feel worse. I have been thinking about your situation, and praying for you a LOT, and I think I have some advice (from the Lord) that will help. Of course you can take it or leave it, but why not try it, as nothing else is working. 

My Suggestions:

1. Take a B Complex AND a Vitex EVERY morning, and EVERY lunch-time.

2. Finish your card of contraceptives, then STOP taking them! They are NOT helping to regulate your hormones, they are making them worse.  

3. Drink lots of water!

4. Try not to eat pasta, bread and rice. They are just like eating sugar, and do not give your body the healing nutrients it needs to keep up a busy schedule like yours. Protein, veggies and fruits are the best!

5. Don't give up on God, or prayer! Read your Bible and pray (for others) when you can't sleep.

6. If you have a concordance, look up the words "sleep" and "rest" and write out all the verses and post them around your house/room to remind you. (I thought I bought you a concordance, but if not, I will.)

Well, that's plenty to start with. If you decide to try it, don't give up! Keep doing it until you see results.

I love you SO MUCH! I pray for you OFTEN! I am praying for a wonderful trip/mini-vacation for you. Call me anytime!

Mom

"I lay down and slept; I awoke, for Lord sustains me."  Psalm 3:5

It's not that I'm against it on principle

I'm pretty open. You know, in general. I like people who aren't assholes.

TANGENT. Alright, I do in general like people, but I'm in Key Largo right now, and YES it's a gorgeous place to dive but I swear to god it's 90% humidity and at 7am it's 86 degrees and it keeps going up and up and up until it's 93 and you want to die. Then you dive and it's awesome. But I don't like people when I'm outside. Too damn hot.

Anyway. I get why they made "Friends With Benefits." Haven't seen it, not going to, never would have. But why is it just being made now, 2011? FwB isn't even hip anymore, it's been around so long. I remember it being the rage back in 2003. I might even have been in a FwB situation, you never really know when you're in one I think, or at least I didn't. Eh, if I was in one. Who knows. Anyway, that's about a decade old. These days the kids are all about true love (again) and getting names tattooed on them (seriously, saw a 17 yr old girl today with ANTHONY <3 on her arm. Might as well have gotten "No Regets") One night stands are more the thing than FwB nowadays. Sure, people still do it. But as a concept? It's hardly fresh.

Summer Blockbuster? I think not.