Originally Posted by NikTes

That's fantastic, secretary! A difficult thing to sit through -- everyone around you drinking. Sobriety muscles! My hard "test" night is coming up in a couple of weeks. I'm already starting to worry about succumbing to the wine, and I'm trying to think of tactics to avoid the same old scenario of getting wasted in public. I have to give a presentation, which makes me nervous as hell, even with beta blockers. I drink before, I drink during, I drink after, I hate myself the next day. (Hmm. I should make that past tense?) All this to say, I'm adding your comment about getting the reward the next day: "no anxiety, no remorse, no dread." That might become my mantra!