i have successfully associated smoking cigarettes with talking on the phone, in this twisted brain of mine. i don't know what's worse, the fact that when i'm outside and on my cel phone, i chain smoke like there's no tomorrow, or that when i go out to smoke a cigarette, i get the urge to call everyone on my contact list.

there is just something about the big city that makes me want to inhale smoke. if i'm in chi-town or nyc, i just go through packs at a time. the difference with l.a. is, yeah, true, there is the whole california healthy lifestyle, and the fact that you aren't allowed to smoke indoors anywhere, but also, there is this anecdote i heard that living in l.a., or socal in general, is that it's the equivalent of smoking 4 cigarettes a day, or a whole pack in a work-week. i mean, why support phillip morris if you can get your carbon monoxide for free?