― Dan Perry, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Such a ILNaNoWriMo site would be fine & dandy - someone get to work on this. My hubris demands that I share my ratty prose with the world.
― David Raposa, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Graham, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jonnie, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― james, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Samantha, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
One time we got drunk on our lunch break. Three people fell asleep at their desks (ONE FELL ON THE FLOOR!), everyone else was very loud. At the restaurant one of the guys broke a glass and we all ran out. The next day we had an emergency staff meeting.
― Ally, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― di, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Gale Deslongchamps, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Now that I live in a better bar town,.. well, yeah, alcohol is found at many a cornerstone in my life these days.. heh heh... ugh.
― Brian MacDonald, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Didn't drink much, if at all, from 14-19. Resumed at a party in 1995 or so, and drank now and again from then until May 1998 at age 21, at my college's outdoor music festival a couple weeks before I graduated, when I got absolutely plastered, far beyond anything I'd ever done before, and spent five hours alternately vomiting and unconscious in a women's public toilet (no one knew where I was, so no one came to help me) until I staggered back to my dorm room at five or six in the morning.
(About five hours later, my father almost died in a fall. Not a good day.)
Since then, I've had but little to drink -- getting that ill took away most of the fun. I don't like the way alcohol makes me feel anymore, either -- it used to have a euphoriac effect on me, but now it just makes me feel queasy, jumpy and vaguely lightheaded. So I have a glass of wine or Chartreuse or a beer every few months or so, and that's basically it. I suppose I miss the glow -- it was especially nice to have 2-3 glasses of wine at a good concert -- but really, once you're legal, it's not that much fun anymore.
― Phil, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Menelaus Darcy, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jenny, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
That ususally doesn't happen though, and I am the person to see if you want to find out what exactly happened on our evening out...
― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I'm Irish. I might as well accept that I am a good ol' fashioned habitual drinker.
― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― ALly, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
360 degrees
― BuzzB, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Times have changed. I was encouraged to drink stout. Something about B vitamins. Nourishing and relaxing for nurser and nursee. Too bad this is no longer true.
― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link
These days even habitual coming home and watching Simpsons/Neighbours often involves the cracking open of the cask o'goon. I'm trying to cut back though...
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Wait no, thats for another thread.
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link
i missed the second last episode where they got out (they got out). also harold strangled paul. there was no alcohol revolving at the time
― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link
This may be largely true for my life as well but I can't work up any concern about it -- it doesn't feel to me like teh booze is being used in any consistent way to conceal or abet or bypass anyone's issues that can't be otherwise resolved -- so I don't mind it either for my sake or my friends'. Is the mere fact of frequent social drinking a worry? I mean, if you think it is, then obv it is for you, but I'm asking: are you concerned by the frequency alone, or do you, like Trayce, know what function it's performing and is it the MECHANICS of the sitch that bother you?
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris F. (servoret), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 07:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris F. (servoret), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 07:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Awesome is as Awesome does (lucylurex), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 07:50 (eighteen years ago) link
been drinking since i was 12, which makes it more than half of my life. recently i didn't get drunk for 3 weeks, this was the longest i had gone sober since 2003, when i stopped drinking for around 5 months. alcohol doesn't prevent me working and shit, i go in hungover plenty but deal with it fine and it's not a problem for my manager. it doesn't effect my relationship with anyone important to me in a negative way and in fact most of my best friends are my most fervent drinking buddies.
so, there's no necessity for me to stop - and i frequently go a weekend or two without getting drunk, so it's not like i can't go without it - but i really, really want to stop. in recent years my bouts of drinking haven't gotten more frequent, but they have became more heavy duty. i rarely get just a bit drunk, tending to drink until there's nothing left or until i fall asleep. also drinking 3 days on the trot has became more of a thing for me than it was before. alongside this i've felt a real increase in the negative influence of alcohol on my health, both mental and physical, although mainly the former. dark fucking moods that last days, and this is on top of an already pretty naturally bummed-out, depressive kind of psyche. on the physical side i get the shakes a lot worse now and the tachycardia and heart palpitations are ballin' out of control at times.
i don't really know what i want to say with this post, like i don't know if i'm looking for advice. the best advice would just be "stop getting drunk". it's just that i'm so hardwired to think of drinking as punctuation between working periods, to think of myself as a big drinker, and to think of getting drunk as the only form of recreation that a special occasion/night out/period of free time merits that i don't know what'll do. the aforementioned period of five months without drinking was a pretty shit period - was stuck in the darkest stage of a funk that lasted from puberty until about the age of 22, extended teenage angst maybe, but that particular stretch was a real period of anhedonia anyway, so not really suitable to use as a period to compare theoretical future sobriety with. i just sat in the house feeling glum and reading, sleeping or playing playstation.
bah, just want to vent i suppose, and would find it hard to vent to my friends, who are in the main older than me and are still drinking lots and some of them doing drugs still, or on the other hand aren't big enough drinkers to get this "quandary".
― Truther Vandross (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 28 October 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I can relate to the impulse that all free time should involve getting drunk. I'm currently going through some difficult stuff, and drinking seems (and I emphasise the word "seems") to be a good way of dealing with things- or at least not having to deal with things immediately. That, and taking up smoking again.
Sorry not to have more helpful thoughts to contribute- but I see where you're coming from, for what that's worth.
― Neil S, Thursday, 28 October 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Jim I spent a lot of years in a mindset where all free time meant drinking as much as possible, and I got to the point you are at, ie just wanting to stop for various reasons. You already know from what you wrote that it's going to involve significant lifestyle change - you'll need to force yourself to break out of your comfort zone and find new things to enjoy sober. In the end what made me successful was literally leaving the country and finding a new social circle who weren't as into drinking. Maybe not a practical solution for you, but certainly it took a very large shift in mindset which would have been difficult to achieve had I stayed in the same city with the same social activities. Good luck.
― franny glass, Thursday, 28 October 2010 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel ya, jim--feels like a waste of a weekend when you don't get good + loaded at least one night. otoh, as i've gotten older i've learned to appreciate things such as not getting hangovers and being able to wake up early on a saturday or sunday. i def drink more than most people i know but have gotten good at avoiding that point of oblivion.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 28 October 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, wrt leaving the country: i've thought about it (though not just for that reason)! seems to me living in santiago de chile it would be a lot easier not to be a drunkard than it is in glasgow.
― Truther Vandross (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 28 October 2010 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
im conflicted over my drinking too. when i go out, i really go out though, and my capacity for drink is a bit frightening and i drink like someone is about to take the drink away from me any second. on the one hand, im relatively harmless when pissed and i havent had people saying to me that its a problem and i shold stop. although one friend who has been dry for the last 5 years did suggest it to me. there was a stage in my late 20's where it was ridiculously out of control, pretty much drinking to the state of getting a blackout all the time. looking back on it now, i was definitely depressed and angry and was using drink to take the edge off of everything.
ive gradually cut things out (drinking spirits, drinking in the day) but i find it v. difficult socially and mentally to stay off the drink when im out. drink does so much of the hard work for you. i went back to college last year so im kinda enthused and want to do well there so ive straightened out (a bit). so the all day benders are a rarity. compared to a couple of years ago where i was working in a dead end job with nothing to look forward to but getting fucked up on the weekend. having said that 2 weeks ago, i drank all day sunday and dont remember getting home. it feels almost a cliche to point it out but throw yourself into new activities that dont involve drinking. i started doing some amateur drama and its a good way to meet people and it doesnt feel artificially generated like in the pub. i know what your saying about a lot of identity is tied up in being a big drinker and maybe you think youll be a boring bastard if you give up the drink but you know thats not really true either. try and give a month or so off the booze and clear your head.
― decent skinsmanship (Michael B), Thursday, 28 October 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
people tend to do things like drive cars and drink alcohol because it’s makes them feel comfortable but I don’t know, we can’t be having that
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Saturday, 11 February 2023 00:03 (one year ago) link
Man I hate my life. Lol.
I have a buddy who's a notoriously prolific drunk driver (and got caught once).. but he recently started dating a woman who has zero tolerance for it, and lo & behold - now he's walking everywhere (which is mostly what I do)
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 11 February 2023 00:07 (one year ago) link
Pretty sure I'm going to die at the hands of a motorist while walking down the side of a road that's unsuitable for pedestrians, I do that shit all the time and no matter how cautious I am, it's dicey.
lol at the conference call on a bus.
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 11 February 2023 00:12 (one year ago) link
I have always felt that if I get hit by a car and survive I get a big payday and if I get hit by a car and die then I won’t be around to care meanwhile the driver will have to live with themself so I really come off better
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 11 February 2023 00:14 (one year ago) link
very fatalistic lol
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 11 February 2023 00:18 (one year ago) link
you could also get hit by an uninsured hit & run driver and get nothing but lifelong paralysis
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 11 February 2023 00:19 (one year ago) link
I'm honestly counting on early death by vehicular manslaughter, I have no idea how I'm going to provide for myself in my old age otherwise.
Neando I think you should do all your conference calls from increasingly outlandish locations going forward just to mess with the project manager.
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 11 February 2023 00:22 (one year ago) link
'Are you at.. are you at a bullfight??'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 11 February 2023 00:24 (one year ago) link
I was walking back to my car once after seeing Slayer at the Jaguars stadium and I was kinda in the road cos there was no actual sidewalk and one of the cops yelled at me "are u nuts being in the street, just about everyone driving is drunker than hell" and I yelled back "then I'm no safer on the sidewalk either" and kept going
Died and hour later, RIP me
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 February 2023 00:33 (one year ago) link
angel of death!
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 11 February 2023 00:37 (one year ago) link
ME (getting ready for dinner out this weekend with friends): "I'm going to try not to drink a cocktail before dinner."WIFE (laughing): "I'm going to try TO drink a cocktail before dinner."
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 20:16 (ten months ago) link