Psychopharmacology
In medical school, 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
The thing Alec had in common with most (maybe all?) of his high school girlfriends.
Names that start with “Al”
This was the first psychedelic (classical or otherwise) that Alec ever took.
MDMA
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
In childhood, Matt once handcuffed Alec's hands to a desk, pretended to lose the key, and returned from the garage with this garden tool, leading Alec to pee himself.
Chainsaw
The imminent reality of testing positive for these two substances on a urine drug test influenced Alec's decision to quit the college football team.
Cannabis and MDMA
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”
In medical school, Alec grew an unexpectedly large amount of this increasingly popular psychedelic in his apartment.
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
At 14, Alec's father diagnosed him with this transient and treatable condition after Alec told him he was having severe pain in his genitals.
Blue balls (or Lover's Nuts)
While taking this psychedelic in 2022, Alec claims to have experienced himself to be sliding between large metallic benevolent-seeming cubes.
Ketamine
In childhood, Alec begged Matt to take him to this R-rated movie, and in exchange, Alec agreed to keep silent about Matt having friends over while their parents were out of town. Alec promptly snitched on Matt upon his parents returning home.
James Bond
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
The song Alec sang a duet to during his senior year Mr. Burke High School talent show.
Total Eclipse of the Heart