alexseanchai | (no subject)

I am conducting a Scientific Experiment, to wit, measuring the effect of alcohol on

alexseanchais. I may have misremembered the size of a standard drink and therefore had more than I was planning, and all at once because I don't actually like the taste of even the most tolerable-tasting alcohol I have experienced.

How do people think they can drive when they know they've had alcohol recently? Because the only reason I am typing coherently is because the F and J keys have the little bumps on them and my fingers know what they're doing. The keyboard is NOT WHERE IT APPEARS TO BE. If the keyboard's not, then the road and the steering wheel aren't either. I am not curious enough to test my reflexes.

Also I am feeling cheated. I know many stories of people who are most creative while under the influence and I am NOT FEELING IT. But then it's only been half an hour. The night is young. (I am not, however, having any more alcohol. My head is not screwed on straight and I do not like it.)

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My experience with drink is not that it makes one more creative, but rather that it silences the inner editor (as a facet of the "removes inhibitions") and relaxes anxieties. Having a half-bottle of wine makes me absolutely no more creative than I was before I had it - but if I've GOT a head full of ideas and a drive but am having difficulties with "agh, god, it's all awful!", then that half-bottle of wine results in a lot more words actually making it out of my fingers.

As to how they think they can drive, a) people who drink more often get practice in faking sobriety and sometimes manage to fake themselves out, or b) they were that stupid when they were sober, too.

Hm. That makes sense. Both points. *kicks writing brain* WORK DAMN YOU.