it's beginning to look like i will be in philly for the superbowl. i'll be more towards university city than center city, but that wouldn't matter. i'd walk to broad street after the game ends. only issue is i have an 8am the following day, so it would be a challenge to get home that night or the following morning in time. it's annoying that i have limited absences for that class, but that's the way it is

got some lifesavers gummies. i used to get these a lot more as a child. my dad would buy them for me, i think i remember them coming in a little paper (or was it plastic?) tube. either way, i have good emotions tied to the flavors. wish i had memories attached to them too. i actually don't remember that much about being a child. like, my memory stretches fairly well back to about fifth grade. gets choppy between fourth and first. anything before that is just short snippets that i can't really attach a year or age to. discovered this when i was prompted to put memories with time signatures down on a list for my memoir class

i want to get into lottery scratch offs. i know that it's technically gambling, and there is a risk of addiction (march is gambling addiction awareness month, by the way), but i think there's a kind of routine to buying them that i want to add to my life. the pennsylvania lottery owes me one dollar, but i keep forgetting my slip back home. i forgot about it all winter break and the memory of its existence just now resurfaced. maybe i can get my family to mail it to me

why do people post snaps of them driving? like, its different to post one as a passenger, because then you can focus on doing something with the video or picture. like, you can zoom in on something, draw something, actually show something, also while not putting anyone at risk. but as the driver, all you can show are the gauges of the car and a little glimpse out the windshield. you also put other drivers at risk. is it to show off music? you can do that while parked or at a stop. you don't have to show people every time you're driving. and often times, no one is really on snapchat to listen to other people's music. this is why i largely hate those videos people post of them lip syncing a song while smoking a blunt. it's boring. it's passé. there is a world of content, and many different ways to show off your "good" music taste. just, jesus christ, stop posting videos of your dashboard while driving

just saw a really bad take on the safe injection sites being set up in philadelphia. okay, yes, it is awfully strange that the opioid epidemic is called an epidemic seemingly because a large number of white people are dying. no doubt that there is some race-related facet to it, but when it comes to lives, and especially those of people who suffer from addiction, playing the identity politics game is the wrong approach. yes, black people face minimum sentencing for weed possession. that's disgusting and unnecessary. but to dismiss safe injection sites as "white people getting to do drugs in public" is also morally reprehensible. the number of poc combined that overdose on opioids in 2016 is higher than the total white. so people of color will benefit from this. and to compare the dangers of opioids to marijuana is ridiculous. no one can die of marijuana, but with fentanyl being put into many drugs nowadays, lives are increasingly at risk. these sites are good. they're needed. don't dismiss them as public drug use. its more than that. philly had 729 opioid related deaths in 2016. it shouldn't matter that many of them were white people. if lives can be saved, then why not do so? safe injection sites are essential to prevent more deaths. thank you, philadephia, for working on implementing them