Alec the Druggie
In college, Alec frequently would end his days by smoking weed and playing this video game with friends.
Mario Kart
Alec began engaging in this increasingly popular activity on a near-daily basis in his 20s in an unconscious attempt to transcend and deny his unpleasant emotions.
Meditation
Alec's football jersey number in college.
96
While in the throes of a half-dose of this psychedelic one summer night in 2022, Alec worried that he had permanently broken his brain.
LSD
The highest number of therapists Alec has ever seen concurrently.
Three
His average duration on this act was just over 4 seconds in high school.
Punt hang time
The thing Alec had in common with most (maybe all?) of his high school girlfriends.
Names that start with “AL”
After taking this psychedelic in 2022, Alec claims to have experienced himself to be sliding and slithering between large metallic benevolent-seeming cubes.
Ketamine
For a period of time, Alec was seeing two therapists with this first name.
The number of points Alec scored in his college football career.
One
The name of a 9th grade history class movie that Alec co-starred in based on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
“Brokeback Cuba”
After taking a moderately high dose of this psychedelic, Alec sat on his apartment floor and repeatedly exclaimed to Elise, while waving his arms, "I could die at any moment! I could die at any moment!"
Psilocybin
Alec currently sees a Yale undergrad twice weekly for psychoanalytic psychotherapy and is paid this hourly rate.
$10
In the 2011 Rose Bowl, with his team down 21-19 in the fourth quarter, Alec attempted an onside kick against this team.
TCU
The song Alec sang a duet to during his senior year Mr. Burke High School talent show.
Total Eclipse of the Heart
The school Alec kicked an extra point against to break the single game scoring record in Wisconsin history. (Which was then broken again 6 weeks later)
Austin Peay