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Then I entered college and woke up. I discovered that I had been tricked into believing that invitations to tea and lunch would magically fall into my lap, that the most memorable part of college was the interaction with great minds rather than the interaction with alcohol, and that the direction I was to take in life would be a clear one as soon as I met the right people who would tell me just exactly what it was that I was supposed to do. The truth of the matter is I’ve barely...
Until 1933, Harvard’s bell not only marked the time for the changing of classes every hour, but was also used as a rising bell that woke students at 6 a.m. in the winter and at 7 a.m. in the summer...
...appearance was at the end of my very first day on the big R, as we users call it. I have no clear memory of what I said, probably because I woke up three times that night, with a start, as if someone had hit me with a wet sock. At 3:10 a.m., I remembered I owed my mother money. At 4:12 a.m., I felt guilty about something I said to my son. At 5:14 a.m., I deeply regretted a headline I had written. Dr. Mark hadn't warned me about this: Ritalin is basically a drug...
...wasn't all sweetness and klieg lights. I was always thirsty. I was often hungry. When I walked down the street I would involuntarily clench and unclench my fists, as if I were the Thing. I woke in the wee hours so often I no longer bothered to wake my husband to tell him about it. And Ritalin made my toes hurt. O.K., technically it was the wall I was kicking that made my toes hurt. I was trying to get my kids downstairs to school, and they were moving with the speed of treacle on asphalt. This is their...
...Will Hunting,” starring Robin Williams and Matt Damon, Williams tells Damon a story about his late wife to illustrate the nature of true love. The story is about how his wife used to pass gas in her sleep, and one night it was so loud it woke her up. Williams makes the point that the true meaning of love is wrapped up in things like these gas attacks: “The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about... people call these things imperfections, but they’re not. That’s the good stuff...