That kind of boring looks great to me, I love to sit under a tree and listen to creatures.

I think I was charged for that....

Just finished reading the series of articles in the Washington Post regarding suburban teens and heroin addiction. Part 1. Part 2.

The articles are absolutely heartbreaking. Heroin OD's are, by far, the most common call we have for our EMS service for patients between the ages of 15 - 30. More often than not we can bring the person back fairly easily through a drug that reverses the affects of the opiates.

The parents always have the same expression on their face, whether it's the first OD or the 10th. A mixture of disbelief, denial, and shame. I can't even imagine what it must be like to see my teenage son or daughter face down on the floor surrounded by needles, cyanotic and in a drug induced slump.

We do our best to provide them with information about services that are available but more often than not we go back to the same address the next week. And the week after.

And every once in a while we'll pass by a residence that we used to frequent but haven't been to for a while. And we know, without actually knowing, what the inevitable outcome had to have been.

It's a crazy drug. And I don't think the average person living in the suburbs understands how prevalent it is. Whether you're in NoVa, NY, NJ, or anywhere else.

Sorry for the post.

Speaking of class action lawyers .... and all you future lawyer types take note;):D, back in my junior associate days, my firm worked on a securitization of the legal fees involved with a certain popular addictive cancer causing agent state settlement. Those folks never needed to work another day in their lives ...

And while the cities are doing Heroin, the country has it's crystal meth. It's really, really awful stuff.

Yeah -- thankfully we don't come up against meth (or meth labs) all that often around here.

A perfect example of what an old friend referred to as the "condensation on the pipes." His meaning was that whenever the hot fluid of capital flows through a pipe, there is condensation (legal, accounting, capital market fees) that arises on the outside of the pipe, in amounts great enough to fund, for example, the current residents of the 'cottages' in the towns of southern Connecticut.

Lived that for the last 10 years;). Such condensation now well :(

In his metaphor, that must mean that the fluid in the pipe is colder. And it is.

Posty McPost-Whore would be ashamed of you.

I am an e-discovery consultant and I shudder when I see some of the partner payouts this time of year, much less the six figure salaries for first years who are highly educated file clerks most of the time. These days I seem to be looking at more investigations rather than litigation as the corporations are holding back as much as they can before they move forward with discovery.

At my last Board meeting I met someone from Niagara-on-the-Lake while mingling.

Just have to keep checking for someone to cancel a reservation for whatever their "standard" category of room may be.

I'm done grading for the week, except those who lose a ton of points for not submitting by Monday's due date.

You're so hardcore.

Syllabus has a "grade per day" penalty, so it's bad form to not adhere to such.