A socking discovery.
22/06/11 • 1 Comment

People, as im sure you have all found out, often query as to why would a young person would agree to spending three months in alcoholic abstinance. Often this question is teired in sarcasm and mild disgust at your choice to refrain from boozing for such an inexorably long period of time. As tiring and repetitive as this conversation can be, it is helpfully thought provoking and has allowed me to work out exactly why i am doing a HSM stint. First and most universally accepted, i am doing it to improve my health and general life abilities. At 21 and in my third year of college, i was beginning to feel to effects of my boarder line alcoholism. I suppose i had been drinking fairly consistantly since i was 18, including some involved and very dedicated drinking periods during my gap year in England in 2008 and my previous [...]

Forgive me Chris Raine For I Have Sinned
04/05/11 • 0 Comments

It has been a month since my last blog…. In fact, I’ve never blogged for HSM, or blogged at all. But as i sad to a high tibetan sherpa with a full bladder…ill try anything once. My name is Jeremy Simon Roy Phillips-Yelland. I am a 21 year old student at UQ. I am the social convenor of St John’s College, I am the Vice-President of the UQ hockey club, Band Member of ‘Who is John’ and dedicated solver of the crisis. All these combined with 21sts, ROH (Random Occurances of Heavies), sunday sessions, tuesday sessions, wednesday sessions and thursday sessions have meant i have attended 22 seperate boozind sessions in my first 28 days of HSM. Needless to say I have been tempted…very tempted. BUT I have held strong and with a deep breath and a glass of pink lemonade in my left hand i have jumped head first in the drunken [...]