Drinking Sucks
My older friend is the worst thing that ever happened to my law school career. Before I met him, I never went to the Quarter, especially not on a school night, but it is just hard for me to pass up dinner and once I've had a few drinks at dinner it is pretty easy to convince me to have "a" drink before heading home.
Par for the course, I had to walk my drunk ass home from the Quarter last night and this entire day has been wasted in a painful post-drunk haze. I have not accomplished anything on my to do lists, and I feel like warmed over shit. This semester, I have normally told him no when he invites me to dinner and I try to keep our friendship confined to weekend lunches. But last night was the one year anniversary of when we met, and I knew it would make him feel horrible if I refused to even let him take me to dinner. This whole relationship is much more for his benefit than it is mine. But there are times when you do things for other people because it is the right thing to do, not because of any real benefit to yourself.
Bottom line, I should have enough self-discipline to leave the Quarter as soon as dinner is over. But the way my self-discipline works is all or nothing. If I don't want to end the night drunk, I don't even start drinking. If I don't want to be fat, then I don't keep fattening things in the house. I'm just going to have to make a clear rule that I will not go out on a school night, that's the only way I'm going to be successful this semester.
Par for the course, I had to walk my drunk ass home from the Quarter last night and this entire day has been wasted in a painful post-drunk haze. I have not accomplished anything on my to do lists, and I feel like warmed over shit. This semester, I have normally told him no when he invites me to dinner and I try to keep our friendship confined to weekend lunches. But last night was the one year anniversary of when we met, and I knew it would make him feel horrible if I refused to even let him take me to dinner. This whole relationship is much more for his benefit than it is mine. But there are times when you do things for other people because it is the right thing to do, not because of any real benefit to yourself.
Bottom line, I should have enough self-discipline to leave the Quarter as soon as dinner is over. But the way my self-discipline works is all or nothing. If I don't want to end the night drunk, I don't even start drinking. If I don't want to be fat, then I don't keep fattening things in the house. I'm just going to have to make a clear rule that I will not go out on a school night, that's the only way I'm going to be successful this semester.