Yes, I believe the movie's called 'LoOp's Progress'!

Sorry LoOp, couldn't resist! Hope you have a great time

Indeed, that would have been Wicker Man. The terrible 2006 remake of the terrific 1973 version with Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland. I'd assume both well-known by Burning Man devotees

As I Nicolas Cage fan, I couldn't believe how lousy Wicker Man was. What a disappointment, Nick usually does a lot better than that. How about the one near and dear to all of our hearts: LEAVING LAS VEGAS. I think it's safe to say that movie hit too close to home for all of us but I couldn't turn away, it was like watching a train wreck with me as the conductor.

Im baaaAAAaaack! Yes, I had a blast. Ive got a lot of reading to do catching up to this weeks posts (and Im a little disappointed thus far ). My keyboard is broken so please pardon the lack of some punctuation and paragraphing, as if anyone cares but me... I met a psychiatrist this week out at the burn who said yeah I prescribe naltrexone all the time. (eek and quotation marks) I got to tell her why she had been doing it improperly...and she listened! We are going to remain in contact. Drinking was unrecorded this week, Ill put it at 15 a day. Its inaccurate but from what I can tell about TSM progress, it doesnt really matter.

That is just great news about the psychiatrist. Keep us posted as she stays in touch with you. I'm glad they didn't burn you at the burn. It sounds like an amazing, uplifting experience.

Meh...

Modest improvement. Thinking about forcing some AF days. I could do it, probably with ease. The units don't reflect it but I can absolutely tell that something is going on. Like many others have stated, I'm drinking every night but the reason is increasingly becoming "just because" that's what I always do. The thoughts about the first drink some nights now is just : "Eh...alright just go choke it down because you're supposed to."

83 Units

I lost my data for this week somehow...never turned my computer off and never saved it. I'd say I consumed about 85 units so no big difference there However, the feelings I reported last week are getting more pronounced. I almost didn't drink anything last night at all. But I did, and imbibed my usual 12 units or so.

This is kind of gross but I'll share it so that I can later look back and be shocked at myself. I usually drink wine out of a pint glass, and I never take sips. I chug about 2 1/2 - 3 pint glasses over the course of an hour and go to sleep. In the mornings, when I think about it it almost makes me puke...like rereading this sentence does. Increasingly, over the last couple of weeks, the idea of chugging the first glass is just getting to be more and more repulsive. After the first one I've no problems drinking the other 1 1/2 or 2.

It started as a feeling of indifference, but its progressing more towards a feeling of disgust towards the AL. I have a sneaking suspicion that some AF days are coming...soon... -E

edit: The only reason I did drink last night was to quiet a stomach ache caused by the previous nights drinking. I get these stomach aches on average like 2 times a week. I'm very curious to see whats going to happen here within the next couple of weeks. I'm a little divided as to how proactive I should be.

You are definitely starting to fall out of love with alcohol -- it's working!

Last week I made up my mind to basically have five days AF and unless the cravings hit, I was going to stick with it. The cravings didn't come so I only drank on two days. I easily could have drank those nights out of habit. I would suggest telling yourself, "I'm not going to drink today." Then do something else and try to forget about it. If you have a craving to drink, extinguish the trigger. But if you have no craving, go to bed. In summary, it's good to make an effort to go AF, but if you are then hit by a craving, drink through it.

Good luck!

Lo0p,

I was reading the Sept. issue of National Geographic and in the "Where in the World?" topic was a satellite image of Black Rock City showing the Burning Man festival. Did you see it by any chance?

BB