Detox day four

One of the best things about this week so far is that I've some decent sleep (thanks sedatives!). For a long time now I've either been hungover or - after nights when I haven't drunk - a little sleep deprived. BUT I'm still feeling a bit frazzled today so, being a multimedia sort of cat, I thought I would give a visual representation of my day (which involved a long cycle ride round to Stratford and the Olympic Park site) and my new healthy lifestyle.

But since every camera or decent phone I've owned has been lost or stolen on drunken nights, or drowned with beer - all I have are my new felt tips, so I have to take 'Ink Polaroids' like Belle and Sebastian used to (before they went all Goddy). I am an awesome drawerer, as you can see:

Going to have a bath now and to try to relax (too much fags and coke), then off to a happening AA meeting.

INFINITE JEST UPDATE: I read pages 17-27 (not much I know, but these closely-typed, intense pages contained only four paragraphs). It's getting onto my fave stuff now - about a dude's obsessive, 'rapacious' (word I learnt in this section) addiction to bad drugs. So much I could quote, talk about here - not least that DFW knows - but I'll go with: "He had tried to stop smoking marijuana maybe 70 or 80 times before" and "He began to grow disgusted with himself for waiting so anxiously for the promised arrival of something that had stopped being fun anyway. He didn't even know why he liked it anymore... and had long ago forbidden himself to smoke dope around anyone else."

Another note: I think it's kind of set in the future because although it uses terms semi-familiar to us - like 'modem', 'e-note', 'teleputer', calling her number and 'using just audio' - the book was published in 1997. Also, DFW has cleverly predicts the attention spans and mindsets of many C21st internet/media users/addicts like me:

"He was unable to stay with any one entertainment cartridge for more than a few seconds. The moment he recognized what exactly was on one cartridge he had a strong anxious feeling that there was something more entertaining on another cartridge and he was potentially missing it. He realized that he would have plenty of time to enjoy all the cartridges, and realized intellectually that the feeling of deprived panic over missing something made no sense."

OK. Tomorrow's my last day of the medical detox so maybe more of my own words and less rubbish drawings.