How have you changed?

give up the booze with me shiels and we will reward ourselves with some lovely drugs later on. you dont want to feel all beaten up and internally bruised and walk around with a dark cloud over your head.

You know I want to. Mostly to see if it will make like super smart and focused and stuff
 
Shiels that sounds like a really rough experience with the virus tbh, but sounds like you are on top of it now. Very bastard time too right.

Thank you catalog. I feel like it still lingers and is doing strange things to my nervous system that might be related to auto immune stuff but it’s definitely easing. Do you think drinking a bottle of wine plus for 300 days helped? Possibly. Thankfully everyone around me has been healthy and fine, apart from losing their jobs and destroying relationships and turning into complete mentalists and all that, but comparatively fine. Hope your sister is OK
 

catalog

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I don't know, i mean like Ive said I've not drunk any booze in ages, but I never felt a stronger compulsion to than over lockdown. Terrible time to be an alcoholic or try giving up I would say.

My sister is on the mend but I'll tell you a funny story, I was getting her shopping list. So she's given me all her essential items list, fruit and veg and all that.

And then Ive paid and am walking back to the car, take my mask off, she calls and she wants some brandy and some small cans of Coke. 'Brandy for my throat'. Classic. And she hardly ever drinks.

Everyone's pushed to thd limit anyway then if you get covid... I've no idea how I'd feel and like you say, it is so nasty, all the people I know whove had it have said so.
 

luka

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i was enjoying my drinking over summer. i was doing a ot of prosecco and white wines outdoors, in central london or in greenwich park. very nice. but it got punitive after a while.
 
I hit a point of merriment where I don’t need any more, unless I’m propelled along by a party or something. I also have the sleep switch, I just conk out. The downside is that this is all very sustainable in the long term. I never get disgusted by alcohol
 

muser

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I was having a great time drinking lots of whiskey and when the first lockdown happened now I'm just drinking beer and it's very unsatisfying but generally my level of daily drinking has gone up significantly. The other thing I have noticed is that I say "fuck it" a lot, general kind of resigned fuck it not angry or rapey one.
 

martin

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I've become more antisocial, I think. Someone recently told me: when this is all over, the parties are going to be MENTAL...a month-long boozing, vomiting and dogging fest!...and I thought, "Fuck that...I ain't going ANYWHERE near people...the poxy scum...!"

Went off my head a few times - have vivid memories of spending July in a forest and on a North Sea offshore platform (with the best pub ever), though obviously I was just reading loads of PKD, staying up too late and watching rolling riot footage.

My social filter muzzle's coming loose...have caught myself saying "Why would you say that? That's a really bad idea...actually it's embarrassing," to senior managers on Teams. Should rein that in.

Some days, I'm a complete zen hippy and just breathe in the rain and feel the electricity whizzing around the ley lines, maaan. Some days I don't use my vocal cords at all, and then end up jabbering uncontrollably at the next person who phones or Zooms, or chatting like a speed freak to the woman at Sainsbury's who takes the childproof lock off my rum.
 

boxedjoy

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losing my job, getting fatter and unhealthier, putting off the massive clearout of household junk I need to do. But also, becoming a better and more confident cook, taking stock of who and what's important to me and what I haven't missed, and recording music and mixes that don't sound awful. Lockdown has been a real mixed bag for me.
 

luka

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you need to get onto writing poetry and forge a connection with your higher self Jack
 

luka

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ive been carrying huge amounts of stress and tension in my chest. thats what stands out for me at the moment. heat and restriction tight bands about the chest. shallow breathing.
 
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