Measure for measure

 
Today I drank poison. I felt the effects almost immediately, but it wasn’t quite enough, so I gave myself another dose.

My poison of choice is a C2H5OH distillate in 40% solution, mixed with diet cola. Sometimes I’ll go with an alternative, a more dilute version — 6.5% — with Bloody Mary mix.

Why, yes, all alcohols are poisons. Ethanol just happens to be the form our bodies can metabolize faster than the lethal effects. So, when we drink, what we are enjoying is the symptoms of that particular poison not-quite-killing us.

And, on that note, I believe I’ll pour just one more.