Drunk on Film, Sober Birthday, Best Present Ever
With margin notes on neurodiversity, marriage, and other things.
Dearest Reader,
It was my 3-year sober birthday last Saturday, February 11th. Meaning, no alcohol since that date, 2020.
I’d planned to spend the morning immersed in a live course called Drunk on Film: The Psychology of Storytelling with Alcohol and its Effects on Alcohol Consumption.
The original course, offered through the University of Notre Dame, is for undergrads and wildly popular. The version I’m taking is for educators (and others) who want to teach the curriculum elsewhere (or are just interested).
Anyway, I’m thrilled about the course and the impact it’s having on campuses and beyond. Even though I haven’t actually watched a film or television or streaming since 2019, bullshit around alcohol and drinking saturates popular and personal narratives whatever the media.
Daring to question those narratives is a radical, courageous, badass thing. Getting sober is that times a thousand.
And yet, I missed the live session on Saturday. And yet, I spent much of my sober birthday in tears.