Mine is before getting out of bed. There's always half a can of lager by the bed from the night before. I down that before even being bothered to turn the alarm clock off. Then I stagger to the kitchen and swear a lot as I try and find some more. A quick pyjama'd trip to the offie usually nets me a hip flask sized bottle of smirnoff to drink whilst I get ready and on the way to the bus. Where the swimmy haze in my head blots out the screams of the school children and numbs that part of me that has already given up, but still watches the world through glazed eyes and feels a million tiny deaths at every joyous youthful shriek. Another quick pint over the road before actually going into the office where I always have some vodka and red bull ready stashed in a sports drink bottle (to wake me up like).

Then I log into DiS and watch the day dissolve before my eyes.