I read an article in Yahoo which talks about how saving or leaving coins lying around in our houses is not a good idea. This is because coins are printed from non-renewable resources and the more we are keeping coins out of circulation, more has to be printed out, and more resources are wasted. I’m a bit guilty because my piggy reserve has been full for weeks now and I’ve been ignoring it. And I know my mom has a ziploc bag full of pennies hehehe. Incidentally, this earth-friendly suggestion was made by Coinstar. Sure they profit from people using their machines to change coins but the suggestion makes sense so I don’t begrudge them whatever they will be earning from this.

I watched Catch and Release last night and loved it, loved the atmosphere and the story. So I was surprised when I went to imdb.com and saw that most people didn’t like it. I’m into all sorts of movies but I have an appreciation for these types that are just about regular people going through life; in the case of this movie, people going through a pivotal time in their life. I can see how others would see Catch and Release as boring or slow, sort of sad. Anyway, I thought it was good…

Hmmm maybe I was just a little sad too…

Last semester, a classmate and I went to one tutorial session to see how it would work for us. The topic of the tutorial was about personality disorders. When we were discussing obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, the tutor told us a story of a woman with OCPD who was featured in a TV show or something like that. This woman looks perfectly normal if you meet her outside her home; she is neat and is always made up nicely. But when the people from the show checked her house, the place was a pigsty. She has two dogs so there was poo everywhere. In my mind, I saw leftovers and creepy-crawlies all over the place. They asked the woman why she allowed this to happen and she said that if she cannot clean her house perfectly she might as well not do it. Hard to believe but as my psych instructor always say, “You never know how people think.” I also love it when she says, “Don’t laugh. You don’t know who you’re seating next to.” Anyway, the point of this entry is all over the place now hehehe. I remembered this because…

MY ROOM IS A MESS! It’s been nagging me, even when I’m at work. Sure I have 1-2 hours available before or after work. But I can’t and won’t do it until I have that perfect day when I can do everything from start to finish. I have things to clean, organize, put away, and I need to make some sort of plan/schedule of stuff that needs to be done before fall. I must be going crazy.

Anyway, going back to personality disorders, I learned that OCD is different from OCPD. OCD is easier to control or treat or, dare I say, cure, whereas OCPD is not something you (doctors, therapists, etc.) can change. Your personality is who you are, period. People who have personality disorders are ego-syntonic, meaning they don’t believe or realize that there is something wrong with them. A person with depressive disorder, who suddenly lost interest in activities/people they ordinarily enjoy and spend time with, could take medications, have therapy, and eventually get better. On the other hand, a person with schizoid personality disorder will have a persistent pattern of avoiding people and relationships, nothing anyone can do about that.

“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment.” - Aldous Huxley

I’m so freaking tired…