Bill Cammack

… continued from Detox [Part 1]…

Anyway… “Not As Drunk As I Was Earlier” is the worst!

It’s tolerable to a degree… but basically, you want to maintain your level of drunkenness within a certain range until you fall asleep. I found this out the hard way. :)

I went to a frat party that a friend of mine threw and ended up staying over. Up until that day, my experience had been that once you go to sleep, that’s it! hahaha :) So I woke up in the morning, probably only 4 or 5 hours after I had gone to sleep. When I woke up, I retrieved my mountain bike and started riding back across the Mass Ave Bridge to go back to Cambridge. Now, I’ve been riding bicycles forever, and it’s just as easy as walking… but for some reason, It wasn’t so easy this morning. :) About halfway across the bridge, I realized the problem… I was still DRUNK! :O smh

Being that I didn’t know this was possible, I had no idea of how to deal with it OR that I actually NEEDED to deal with it. So I rode back to the dorm, and I’m wide awake and I start hanging out with my homegirl. Next thing I know, I’m just feeling worse… and worse… and WORSE… AND *WORSE*!!!! I mean, it’s funny NOW.. but at the time, I was like OMG!

After that very day, I made a vow to AVOID that situation forevermore! :D

The best thing I can advocate (besides not drinking in the first place, haha) is just plain NOT WAKING UP until you’re over it! :D Know what kind of person you are. I’m a morning person. I can go to sleep @ 3am and wake up @ 9am without an alarm. If you know your body’s going to reactivate in the morning, don’t keep drinking @ 4am. Of course… this is tip is useless, because if you’re still drinking @ 4am, you aren’t THINKING about waking up at all! :D

Another good tip is to drink A LOOOOOOT of water before you go to sleep. Do your best to dilute your blood alcohol level ahead of time. Even if you don’t end up with a hangover, the thicker your blood gets, the tougher it is for it to pass through your capillaries, and you’ll have headaches and just overall feel poorly.

At some point, I became aware of “Hair of the Dog”, or, as I believe it’s properly known, “the hair of the dog that bit you”… Regardless… It’s the Top Gun technique of pulling out of the dive like Tom Cruise in Top Gun and letting the enemy fly right by you. Pull yourself out of the nose-dive of coming down while being awake by starting drinking again! :D Instantly, you switch your body from becoming increasingly less drunk to increasingly more so. I wish I could remember where I found out about this so I could properly attribute credit.

The reason I was thinking about this was that like twice in the span of a month, I was forced to pull myself out of the nose-dive. One of the two I don’t remember at this point. The other one was that at some point before I crawled into bed @ 5am, my cousin had left me an email saying she needed my help moving some furniture to storage the next morning. I only found out about it after I woke up and was WAY LOOKING FORWARD to a morning/afternoon/early-evening of detox, flickr and facebook sets. All of a sudden, my detox time was out the window, and I had to figure out how I was going to be functional, in the street and feeling decently by 1pm.

I could have pulled off ONE of those three in the state I was in when I read her email. I could have been in the street, non-functional and feeling poorly… NOT in the street, funtional, but feeling poorly… or feeling well, NOT in the street and NOT functional (= asleep :D). The only way I was going to be able to make it happen for my cousin was to “hit the brakes and let them fly right by”.

Needless to say, this technique is USELESS if you have work the next day, hahaha. If that’s the case, you’re an idiot for drinking so much into the wee hours of the night. Too Bad… So Sad…. Some people think coffee’s going to save them. Nope. Old Wives’ Tale.

Water, sleep, more alcohol or not getting drunk in the first place… You decide.

Back in the day… I was hanging out at a carnival in Revere, Massachusetts, USA, and we were kicking it to these chicks, and this girl’s friend tried to cockblock her by saying “She just got out of detox! :D”. I figured she was kidding, but it turned out that she wasn’t. The chick really HAD been in detox/rehab/whatever. Unfortunately, the block didn’t work, because the chick was cute/hawt, and you know how THAT goes! :D

That’s not the type of detox I’m talking about. It’s more of a mental/psychological state than a spot where they try to get you to kick whatever form of high you’re into.

I didn’t drink at all until I got to college. I know that doesn’t seem like an achievement, hahaha :D It’s like Chris Rock said… Don’t brag about taking care of your kids… You’re SUPPOSED TO take care of your kids! :D

I think the drinking age in the USA is 21. Meanwhile… In reality… I knew kids that were getting drunk when we were in JHS… around 15 years old. Raiding parents’ liquor cabinets (my parents didn’t/don’t drink, so there was no liquor for me to raid, personally)… Knowing where to go to buy alcohol around the way with no questions asked… If you know where “the bootleg” is, you can get, like, VODKA from stores that probably aren’t even licensed to sell it… and that’s @ 3am. So, as a NYC kid, everything’s available to us, all the time. If you have the money, SOMEBODY has what you want… Alcohol, Chicks, Whatever.

So that’s why I say I never drank until college. College starts (for most people) at 18 and ends around 21, so, technically, you’re not supposed to have had a drink until you were like a senior in college… BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Yeah, Right. :D

The “detox” I’m talking about is bringing your system back to some sort of stability after drinking a whole hell of a lot of alcohol. The reason I felt like blogging about this is that today, for the second time in about a month, I got ‘cheated’ out of my detox time, and I’ve been feeling poorly all day. The people that I think might find this interesting are the ones who didn’t know anything about drinking, like *I* didn’t before I started.

There are a few stages to drinking. For the purposes of this post, let’s call them (in chronological order):

Not Drunk
Not Drunk Yet
Drunk
Not As Drunk As I Was Earlier
Not Drunk

Most of these stages are fine. :) We can eliminate the bookends by saying that if you’re Not Drunk, that has nothing to do with this post.

Not Drunk Yet isn’t bad either. It’s like being on a lame Roller Coaster, and you know you’re going up, but it’s a slight incline. You always feel “better” as the time goes by. You’re on your way to Drunk.

Drunk is always cool if you’re into that sort of thing. Everything’s Light & Breezy! :D

The only thing that’s left is the worst state of all, hahaha… Not As Drunk As I Was Earlier. Horrible. Don’t want to be there… or even think BACK… I don’t want to be there… Now I’m on the right track… Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! – Ace Frehley – “Hard Times”

When I recall… Days in The City…
And I think back… Oh what a pity…
Remembering How… It wasn’t pretty…
Everyday Life in The City…

Out in the Street
We had to Take it
With friends around
We couldn’t Fake it
What wasn’t there
We had to Make it
Hangn’ out Down in The CITY!

The Hard Times
Are Dead And Gone
But The Hard Times
Have Made Me Strong
And The Hard Times
Have Made Me See
That The Hard Times
Ain’t Where I Wanna BEEEEE!!!!

Anyway… Not As Drunk As I Was Earlier is the worst! :D ……….

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More another time… I’m out to another event! :D

PS – Happy Birthday to Liz Burr & Tyme White! :D

… continued in Detox [Part 2]…