I think it's just me, but I could be wrong. It could also be what Dr. Kearney said in a different class: this is the time in the semester when students tend to feel less motivated. No Fall break until Thanksgiving week and when you get back from that, you only have two weeks left in the semester. There's a ton of work in front of me and I'm finding it hard to push. Possibly I need a good stiff drink. Or an upper instead!
For me, as I've said before, I just don't get the whole drug thing. I have never tried psychotropic drugs and any experiences with other drugs was short-lived and unimpressive. I have had a pretty ordinary life. Nothing I feel any great need to escape from. Things I would have done differently? Without a doubt. For me though, the short-term escape into drugs never offered much temptation. Part of it might be control issues. I like to know things. Where I'm going, who with, etc. If the drugs are "in charge" than I am not and that would be tough to handle.
My biggest addiction would be buying books that I do not have the time to read. I have subscriptions to magazines and comics, I constantly join, quit and rejoin book clubs to get more free or cheap books, I pick up the newspapers on campus and all of these sit and wait for me to have the time. I just counted 43 books. Books only. That is an addiction, not a"bad" one I guess, but all of these books cost something. If not actually money, then time and the guilt that I have not the time or the motivation to do more. Sometimes it drives me to drink.
As for the chapter . . . it held my interest, enough to read it, it had a nice flow, cool pictures of trippy musicians and movies and it got me thinking about all the stuff I wrote above, not neccessarily anything connected with the chapter. That may well be the essence of good writing, you finish what you are reading and then carry on from there with what you just read as a springboard to other places.
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