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[shadesong]

Jumping on this because of the last one.

I'll be in the Altanta area next week (Alpharetta) and I'm stuck eating alone- can you recommend a place to eat?
I can recommend that you come on over and have dinner with me, young lady. :)

When's the next time you're coming to NYC?
We're hoping for this summer.

*foottap* Why don't I get articles on time?
Um. Heh. Because I suck?

What movie are you looking forward to the most this year?
That would be a tie between Hitchhikers' Guide and Serenity.

How is it that you consider yourself "clean" but you drink wine? Or was that faux Merlot you once mentioned you were drinking?
And this is why I'm jumping on this and not cut-tagging and stuff:

I'm not an alcoholic. Never been one. I've only ever been drunk once in my life, and I did that deliberately just to see if I liked it. I didn't.

I know alcohol is considered a drug. Some people also consider caffiene a drug, but I toss down a cup or two of coffee a day and still consider myself clean, despite the fact that my drug of choice was methamphetamine.

Anyway. My alcohol intake is pretty much limited to a glass of merlot or shiraz once a month or so at an Italian restaraunt - and my neurologist says I'm cleared for a glass of wine with dinner two or three times a week. So I don't consider this level of alcohol intake to be any sort of problem, either to sobriety (since I've never been addicted) or to neurology (the question's been asked before).

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[shellefly.livejournal.com]

Serenity!

Sigh ... I really really want to see that movie.

[techempage.livejournal.com]

That would be a tie between Hitchhikers' Guide and Serenity.

I finally finished watching Firefly a few weeks back.

Serenity worries me a little. I loved the show, but it doesn't seem like the something, IMO, that will translate to the big screen well. I hope I'm wrong. I'm hoping it's a huge hit and they'll bring the show back.

Of course, promoting it would help some too...

[talix18.livejournal.com]

Easy, Killer. My intention was not to pick a fight. I ask because the word "clean" has specific connotations to me (as a member of NA) and when I first started to read you, I had a mistaken understanding of your situation. You are of course free to call yourself whatever. Me? I'm addicted to anything that makes me feel. (Alcohol was the one that got me in the most trouble.) Maybe you were addicted to one thing in particular. Whatever the case is, congratulations on putting it in the past.

[talix18.livejournal.com]

(And just for the record, caffeine is definitely on my "thumbs up" list, she says with a vat of green tea in front of her.)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*nods* I know it wasn't a fight-picking thing. It just got me all prickly, and I wanted to jump on it in case it was a common misconception... also, I've been getting the question about "doesn't that fuck with your meds?" a lot.

I have a glass of wine with dinner sometimes because I like the way it tastes... I never even finish it. I'm a terrible lightweight! In other alcohol stuff, I can only ever drink stuff like mudslides, stuff that doesn't taste like alcohol. The taste of alcohol puts me off.

I should get more into the specifics of why meth as opposed to other stuff in Walking on Water. I hate pot, too. Like alcohol, it makes me feel slow, stupid.

And yeah, note on that: No pot, either. No illegal drugs since I got knocked up.

[talix18.livejournal.com]

I love the way the meth use is woven into the character of the city, by the way. It really brings the scene to life for me.

And yeah, why is it that a clinically depressed person picks two depressants as her drugs of choice? I'm not always the brightest bulb in the chandelier.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to grab a bit of the city description from Places You Haunt for Walking on Water... Vegas itself is a speedfreak.

[grailquestion.livejournal.com]

Totally understand where you're coming from about alcohol and pot making you feel slow and stupid. I don't even drink full glasses of wine; I mix red wine with a little pomegranate juice, because it's tasty and doesn't leave me feeling like my brain and body are out of sync.

And I work in a Starbucks now, so I can bounce off the walls for free.

Dinner

[fortunavirilis.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good idea to me. I'll get into Atlanta Wednesday evening and I leave Friday evening. So I could do late-ish Wednesday evening or anytime Thursday evening (training class gets out at 5:00). So, just let me know if either night works for you and I'll send you my cell phone numbers (yes two- one is for work and one is personal and I'm not certain which will work better in Atlanta).

Re: Dinner

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm free both evenings. E-mail shadesong AT gmail.com.

[childofchaos.livejournal.com]

When's the next time you're coming to NYC?
We're hoping for this summer.

YAY!! I'd love to meet you in person!

[mick-hale.livejournal.com]

How is it that you consider yourself "clean" but you drink wine? Or was that faux Merlot you once mentioned you were drinking?
..... This kinda really pisses me off.

I'm "clean", but does that mean I'm not allowed to enjoy a good single-malt? Or the occasional drink? Or wine once a week, if that?

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*nods* They weren't fighting words, but they prickled me. People have different definitions of clean. Mine (and yours, obviously) doesn't exclude the occasional drink, if no alcoholism existed in the first place.