Lankford, Ronnie D.. Alcohol abuse. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2007.
Now I'm really going to be put up to the test of "Multi Tasking" I am currently listening to music reading about drunks and writing to you all about it...plus I'm texting so bare with me. I think this book would be really funny to use in my research essay because hey, I mean do I deal with drunks or what...I'm good at it too. I know almost every reason why there drinking and I am always right when it comes to guessing what they will drink. I have memorized a whole alphabet on beer and I'm getting pretty darn good with alcohol. Don't ask me how to make anything because I'd prolly be wrong...truth is I could care less, I am bad at waitressing at the bar because I choose to be I don't give a shit how I am there, I refuse to study the menu and drinks because I give all my "studying time" too school...I guess it's just something I'll have to eventually forgive myself for...haha. So sorry about the run on but seriously...I never stop to take a breath when I talk so no use in lying on here when I type...my mind runs thousands of words at a time.
Lets talk more about the book..."Alcohol abuse" maybe I’m not an expert on it but I have a whole handful of people on...funny to in my interview with "Pete's Restaurant" (the whole place as a whole) I interview someone who is a drunk...I don't think there really is a time when I was there that he wasnt..Sad I know. The audience for this book has to be either drunks, recovering drunks, people wanting to be drunks (ha-ha) or people using it for research like me. The purpose for this is basically, what are the results in drinking long-term how they effect others and why people become this. I find it so fascinating...the guy who wrote this must have been a recovering because no one can tell the true story unless they live it, ya know what I mean. I tried to focus on why they are like this...I'm not reading it to help them, I don't want to help them...half those bastards hit on me or said the worse things to me, sad part is that they are all right around the age of me father. I am using this book for my essay then after that I'll move on and never look back. I am so much stronger then them, and I am learning that. Thanks to you I feel so much better about myself...college has opened my eyes to so much...sometimes when I walk alone threw campus with music playing in my ears and the wind blowing through my hair with the distinct smell of leaves I feel so relaxed and happy...I know life is changing and first I was scared now I open my arms to it... I love life and how beautiful it is...every...single..Thing. I don’t need a clouded little restaurant bringing me down, or a boy making me cry, I need to smile... and I will. Thank you my little Jewish Sarah Beth, your right being smart is our curse but I will use it to my advantage, I will help others who fall behind and write some of the most beautiful things I can possible bare to put down on paper, I like over thinking, but I also want to separate myself from it and have some fun, I will slowly I will like I have in the past.
Serrats, Marta. Bar design. Cologne: Daab GmbH, 2006
Why not look at how bars are designed...I mean you know everything is made and laid out for a purpose. When you go to Las Vegas and check-in to you hotel you must first walk threw the casino to get to you room. They do this so that quest see the entertainment and are more likely to stop, gamble and come back later to do it again. In resturants they put the bar in the middle are like a brain the center of action where everything takes place, they surround it with pretty lights and in sports bars T.V.'s. They almost make it seem like anyone who is anyone must be here where everything is going on. The purpose for this book would mainly be designs for bars and layouts for better and more convient entertainment.I personally focused on how the made and put the bar in a place where it would get more people to buy more drinks, thus making the bar more profit. I would have to say the main audience other than me once again for researching purposes would be maybe Artitects of those thinking about buidling or investing in a location for a bar. I didn't get too much information for this book because it was a little eirelavent to my topic but I still wanted to know if not only the bar that I worked at purposly put the bar in the middle but if many others did that too. I even went to a few other resturants and bars even really classy ones and found that the bar always was dolled up really nice and was the center of the foundation.Sorry Sarah Beth for this citaion being so short I asure you that I will make it up in my essay, I have much to say and I think I might use some of my blog writings in my essay, if thats okay with you. Thanks.
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These sources both seem useful for your topic. I can definitely see how alcoholism and the set up of the bar in the restaurant could both be relevant to your research project, especially combined with your own observations and experiences of how both of these concepts function in your community. I think your insight into the bar being the "center of the foundation" is really interesting. I wonder how your own experiences with the bar in this restaurant and alcoholism mesh with the literature you are reading about theses ideas. I wonder what Pete's would be like without alcohol. I wonder how many members are there just for the food, or just for the alcohol. I wonder how different the atmosphere would be without the bar. I wonder how you think alcohol and alcoholism uniquely affect Pete's, and how they affect restaurant culture in general.
And I can't tell you how lovely your words were about college and life, and how you are feeling pretty positive right now. I am actually relating to some of your emotions, especially in terms of adjusting to change. Change can be so terrifying as much as it can be exciting, and it's great to hear you are feeling that excitement. You've reminded me do remember to do the same, as I am in the middle of dealing with some major life changes myself.
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