I gotta say, the fact that my own liquor cabinet list is so long because I hardly ever drink… but I don’t mind. Should I ever have a visitor, it’ll be nice to offer them something tasty.

I hope the whole stabbing pains and milking thing work out and that it all comes to an end soon. That just sounds horrible and it totally sucks that you have to deal with it! Gah. I hope you get better quickly.

btw, the booze list is…long! Can you tell we don’t drink much? But then again, we have also collected quite a few bottles that now stand dusty in our liquor cabinet. :)

Yes, yes, this is all about MY prostate.

As for writers’ disease, I dunno. I think it’s possible, or in any case, the amount of alone time it engenders, and the legality and availability of alcohol make it the easy choice. I also think writers are often very obsessive (read: addictive) people. I know I am, but… not to the drink, anyway. To my relief.

Julia:

What in the world are butter shots?

Um…I didn’t actually get such a diagnosis, it was more along the lines of “should this ever come up.” Just to be clear on that.

(…and as much I love Maureen, the whole writers-disease thing was always a perspective I utterly disagreed with. Sure, you can always find antecdotal evidence for those sorts of claims, but in its logical structure, the whole thing reminds me, *a lot*, of the “one puff of a joint will inevitably lead to becoming a heroine addict” line that I remember being pushed in high school health classes and drug education assemblies.)

Anyway, from my own perspective as an impoverished TA, that does sound like a wicked impressive liquor cabinet. I really do have to visit you in Korea sometime… ;)