One day down

So I've been off the juice for almost 24 hours now. I have to say it was hard yesterday when I was sitting at my desk staring at the stack of briefs I needed to read and was about to drift off into la-la land. But I didn't break, and I made it through the day.

I didn't lose any weight (shocking...apparently 3 bowls of cereal make up for the lack of soda). I don't really have a headache or anything. I did yesterday for a little while, but it wasn't bad.

In other news, I was sitting around the house last night reading the new pottery barn catalog (or catalogue if you're one of those fancy brits), when I came across these:

They're square green vases of various sizes and colors. Here's how Pottery Barn describes them (I included the hyperlink in case you want to get them...they are quite nice):

"The fluid organic shapes of our tonal-green vases are a product of the glassblower’s art. Their cased construction layers clear glass over an opaque striated base."



Ok, what the hell is fluid and organic about a square? I read this and thought...hmm...perhaps there is some alternate definition for "organic" that I am currently unaware of.

So I did what any nerd would do. I looked up "organic" in the dictionary. Much to my surprise, there is not one alternate definition for "organic." There are about 14. Here's what Dictionary.com says:

1. noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
2. characteristic of, pertaining to, or derived from living organisms: organic remains found in rocks.
3. of or pertaining to an organ or the organs of an animal, plant, or fungus.
4. of, pertaining to, or affecting living tissue: organic pathology.
5. Psychology. caused by neurochemical, neuroendocrinologic, structural, or other physical impairment or change: organic disorder.
6. Philosophy. having an organization similar in its complexity to that of living things.
7. characterized by the systematic arrangement of parts; organized; systematic: elements fitting together into a unified, organic whole.
8. of or pertaining to the basic constitution or structure of a thing; constitutional; structural: The flaws in your writing are too organic to be easily remedied.
9. developing in a manner analogous to the natural growth and evolution characteristic of living organisms; arising as a natural outgrowth.
10. viewing or explaining something as having a growth and development analogous to that of living organisms: an organic theory of history.
11. pertaining to, involving, or grown with fertilizers or pesticides of animal or vegetable origin, as distinguished from manufactured chemicals: organic farming; organic fruits.
12. Law. of or pertaining to the constitutional or essential law or laws of organizing the government of a state.
13. Architecture. noting or pertaining to any work of architecture regarded as analogous to plant or animal forms in having a structure and a plan that fulfill perfectly the functional requirements for the building and that form in themselves an intellectually lucid, integrated whole.
14. Fine Arts. of or pertaining to the shapes or forms in a work of art that are of irregular contour and seem to resemble or suggest forms found in nature.–noun
15. a substance, as a fertilizer or pesticide, of animal or vegetable origin.

I'm not even sure what number 13 means, but maybe that's what those vases are.