The Blackout Problem

I wake up this morning not knowing how I got to my bed. Better yet, when I get up to "hold a short staff meeting" (take a piss) as my father would say there is a mysterious dried red substance on the bathroom floor. While BOX has a longstanding tradition of problematic drinking, from personal experience during the Old Crow Challenge: a period of 4 days during which 10 handles of whiskey were consumed amongst 3 men; along with the stretch over the past few days, during which I have drank every night in the past week and gotten blackout more times than not. Most human beings would say that this sort of lifestyle is problematic, but I disagree. It, in and of itself is not a problem.

The inordinate amount of money I have spent at Campus Corner is however a problem. In roughly 5 months, $1100 of my hard-earned cash have been spent on alcohol (or so my bank account recently informed me). Contrary to popular belief, getting blackout (or brownout) for several nights on end is not an easy accomplishment. Instead, it takes several largely important aspects-a fairly large amount of money, the personal fortitude to drink when your body doesn't want you to, and most importantly the willingness to accept the notion that you most likely will not get laid. The amount of dignity, money and possible sexual encounters that I have personally lost out on can not be expressed well enough in this post. While alcohol has become more than a problem for me and arguably a few of my roommates, blackouts are a wondrous thing, but the various components to achieve this goal are a great cost.