Good Night Sweet Prince

For the remainder of this post, please play the song "The Final Countdown" by Europe

So the date has been set.  June 24th 2011.  I'm not sure how I feel about it. On one hand it was inevitable, I've know it was coming for some time now.  But it was always sometime in the future, it was intangible, but now it's defined.  The there is a definitive point in my life where I will no longer have a colon.

In addition to searching for my colon's "last meal", I plan on eating en masse, not particularly mass amounts of food, but with friends, large groups of them. Food by itself is just something to eat, to doesn't become a meal unless you enjoy it with others***.

Last Saturday I was at a bar with a couple of friends, and after I told them the date one of them said something along the lines of "There it is, you have five months of feasting".  As I write this* I'm currently sitting in an airport lounge drinking free alcohol and eating mediocre food.** And it's true there is five months left for my colon to experience all that it can.

*I had planned on writing this post a couple of days ago, when it would have actually been 5 months of feasting, but technical difficulties have plagued my connection, i think it's my router.
**While technically not free, I paid $30 to get in, I have 3 hours to kill as my flight to England was delayed, I figured it's either pay a lot of money for okay food, or pay slightly more for okay food and an open bar#.
***By "enjoy it with others" I mean a massive party which will be considered a failure unless some get alcohol poisoning. Everyone is in invited##
#I know for a fact I can drink $30 in 3 hours.
## Everyone except Scott+ (that guys' a dick)
+ Specifically Scott Campbell of Mississauga^
^A group of us were at the Artful Dodger@ for my birthday party 4 years ago, while I was out smoking that asshole made some racists comments, almost got into a fight, and then left leaving me with his bar tab.
@I really recommend the Artful Dodger as a location for a birthday gathering.

Gin Soaked Boy

I have yet to meet with the surgeon, and beyond Isabel, no one that I have written to has sent a response so I have no news on either front, however something is starting to set it.

Now aside from the obvious duty of the colon, it's secondary function is to reclaim water from food.  Now seeing as mine only partially works, I already get dehydrated a fair amount. Once it's gone the risk of dehydration is even higher.  The main cause of hangovers is dehydration.

Once I have the surgery I will no longer be able to drink heavily.  Now drinking is something I am good at, I always have been.  I don't drink daily or even weekly, but when I go out I like to have a few.  Shortly after being diagnosed,I found out (the hard way) that I am prone to hangovers. I've gotten hangovers while remaining completely lucid and sober the night before, it's the curse of having a high tolerance. (On vacation there was an occasion where I managed to open and close a bar, keep in mind the hours of operation were only from 9am to 6 pm, but I still did it (Cuba, 2007- Brisas Santa Lucia))

So in addition to providing my colon a last meal, I think I'm going to need to go on a some sort of drinking binge.  Not a multi-day bender (I am a semi-productive member of society after all), but a night to a remember that I probably won't.

Any suggestions as to what and/or where I should be drinking?  Keep in mind location really doesn't matter, if the suggestion is awesome, I'll try to make it happen (The sharing of drinking stories is encouraged)