Control

[asterroc]

A couple of my students recently have asked me ... well, they said, "you know what it's like to drink a lot, you were a college student." And my answer was no, I don't know what it's like. "C'mon, you have to have drunk." "Yeah right, of course you drank." And no, I didn't. I didn't really drink anything until grad school, and even to this day the most I've had in a night is three. I think I've done this on three separate occasions, and one time I really thought I was going to puke and fall over with just that little.

So the question is why not? And reading through some literature on binge drinking, I figured it out. There is exactly one thing in the world that I can control: Myself. I am not willing to give that up.

Comments

[ayashi.livejournal.com]

I've felt the same way :) also hearing people in my classes talk about how they can't even remember anything about the previous night is very scary to me. I can't imagine waking up and not being able to remember what I'd been doing!

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

The one time I thought I was going to barf, I was out with some REALLY close friends, one of whom was recently un-Mormoned, and I didn't have any water handy - we were at a bring-your-own-beverages Karaoke club and had only brought Smirnoff and beer. When I realized how assy I felt, I went to the front desk and shelled out more than two bucks for a can of Sprite. Man, did that help. Three drinks of alcohol w/o water and the *dehydration* was kicking my ass worse than anything else.