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05/29/2005: "THE DRINKING DEBATE"

So I’ve been asked many times why it is that I don’t drink, and the answer is fairly simple..... first of all, I don’t see the big hype around it; it just doesn’t look like any more fun than not drinking. If anything, it often looks less fun (people being sick, doing stupid things, and not remembering any of the night before - no thanks). The other reason is that I can make a fairly good guess at how I would act if I was drinking and I would like to act like that without the assistance and not just because I have alcohol in my system (things like dancing and going nuts more - which I do not do now but I know I would at least try it if I were drinking/drunk). And so I don’t drink (have never tried it) and still don’t see the big deal. At least this year the people I hung out with didn’t really care. Most were a little curious of course (since the majority of the university crowd drinks) but that was all. And on the plus side to not drinking, I save a lot of money and people don’t have to worry about who will be the designated driver (or at least they won’t when I get my full license in a month or two).