Did you know Tobey Maguire once did a stint in rehab--before he was 21? Neither did I. He told the New York Daily News:

"I have an addictive nature. An obsessive-compulsive nature - well, I don't know that's what it is clinically. But I go to addictive extremes, and before I got sober, that became routine." So how are those 12 steps going, Tobey? "I still have people to apologize to," he laughs. (Source)

Damn this story has stirred up some demons within me I thought I had buried long ago. See, I also have an addictive nature. It's what forced me to drop out of the competitive Boggle circuit a few years ago. What started out a simple way to pass a Saturday night amongst friends became so much more. The cacophony of lettered blocks smashing against the clear plastic top before gently settling into the 4x4 grid became like a drug to me--the "thrill of the find" is what us junkies called it. Nouns, verbs, adjectives--it was all the same to us. Oh shit, L-O-O-S ... it can't be--YES! it's "L-O-O-S-E" 5 points!--how did I almost miss that?!? When I sold my body to pay for a plane to ticket to the National Championships in Albuquerque, I knew I had hit rock bottom.