Firewhiskey Fic Update

[ride_4ever]

The drinking or 420ing along with creating of fanworks during the Firewhiskey Fic Spring Fling Edition starts this Friday and goes for 48 hours. Prompts, rules, and suggested cocktail recipes are at Firewhiskeyfic Spring Fling Edition.

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[verushka70]

As it happens... my sister's roommate contracted a TERRIBLE case of COVID at a party so she is now quarantined for at least 10 days (her job won't even let her come back). So no Greek Easter for us this weekend. We will instead have Greek Easter June 7... at which point I don't think it can really be called Easter anymore, Orthodox or not. (But my younger sister, who's hosting us, has a birthday on June 11, so we can turn it into that.)

Which means 2 things:

1) I am getting my 2nd COVID vaccine booster tomorrow and will have the entire weekend to be miserable in bed if that happens, because I'm off this weekend, and since every successive shot I've gotten of this vaccine has had a worse effect. Sigh. I'm just getting it over with even though it's not mandated for us (yet) because I expect it will be (eventually).

2) I can do Firewhiskey Fic!!! Huzzah!

[ride_4ever]

Yays for you doing this round of Firewhiskey Fic! I work until between 5:00 and 5:15 on Fridays, so I'll be getting a little later start on it than the rounds that start on Saturday (sometimes it starts on a Saturday and sometimes it starts on a Friday).

Hope you don't have such a bad reaction to the booster this time. (half_a_fanboy and I are getting the next booster in about a week.)

[verushka70]

Well, I work until 11:30pm Friday night so I won't get home until probably like midnight, so I'll be getting an even later start than you, I guess?

Like with bad!fic challenges, I'm not sure how badly I'll be able to write even while drinking/drunk, but I'm just planning to enjoy the efforts regardless of the outcome while I maintain a good drunk yet without swerving into "I'll be sorry tomorrow" hangover territory.

It can be such a fine line, heh, but I do have a couple secret weapons: Emergen-C packets, two or three (which is surprisingly full of B vitamins) & Monster energy drink (or knockoff equivalent), one or two. Taken before retiring after an evening of solid drinking, either is (or especially both are!) like the "banana bags"* of IV fluids we give drunks in the ER. Hangover preventative. Haven't had a hangover in years since I learned this trick!

Hmmm. Will clearly have to stop at a liquor store or Walgreens on the way home from work, heh.

*They're called "banana bags" because they're yellow from the B-vitamins we inject into them. Incidentally, alcoholic dementia is a form of severe multi-B-vitamin deficiency that alcoholics get. After a certain point (usually years of excess driving), it becomes irreversible.

[ride_4ever]

Well, people do start at all different hours because of all the different time zones. Do post some kind of "I'm here now" comment in the FWF comm when you get there. Part of the fun of FWF is the running comments from participants as we all get more stupidly inebriated creative.

I appreciated the medical details you give here -- I always like learning medical stuff.