didn't work quite as well as we'd hoped

[lauralh]

The plan was to take me out and let me drink. Because drinking makes me forget that my life is shit. But boy, nothing brings you down faster than drinking while your friends talk about nuclear aggression. I made the mistake of saying to the Romanian "What difference does it make to talk about it?" and he got in my face about Communists in his country being overthrown because of people talking about it or something. But my point was that there was little chance of myself being able to affect policy, and the policy in fact would little affect me directly, whereas losing a boy and a job did.