spit or swallow

rod says i make a stupid face when i drink beer because i hold the swill in my mouth instead of swallowing it immediately. i will confess it's a weird habit. i've been doing it for a few years. i hold a mouthful of beer like a hamster saves food in it's cheeks. i used to be conscious of it. needless to say, but said anyway, i'm not conscious of this anymore. there's only one reason i do this (that i can think of), and until now i've yet admitted to myself that there ARE reasons. the longer it lasts in my mouth, the longer my beer lasts. the more satiated my taste buds are, the more i can fool myself into not thinking about the next sip. because addiction is more mental than anything. physical be damned, it's the mental that i can't refuse.

i just caught myself doing it.

it's really not my most flattering face, and i'm a little bit embarrassed about the ramifications on my sex life. how many times have i had a mouthful of beer yet to be swallowed when talking to a pretty lady? rod sucks for bringing this to my attention. i mean, thanks, because i've already started to stop doing it recently, but you still suck. i had my drinking figured out until then. a pun my dad makes: "I can hold my liquor." maybe this was an unconscious mechanism for regulating how much alcohol i was intaking, because now that i don't make my hamster beer face as much i've been getting more wasted more often...or maybe i've just been getting more wasted more often. either way, i resolve to stop this maladapted monstrosity of the mandible...mouth.