I once read an article about how fasting would not only increase one's lifespan, but that it would increase the intellect as well. The reasoning was that human's intelligence is a product of our physical disadvantages and our craftiness in procuring food. So, 20 year-old me began to fast. I did however, keep drinking booze as well as water. I realize that beer is a food. I was drinking whiskey.

I was also in the middle of my degree in creative writing, which consists mostly of writing on one's own time and then presenting copies of one's work to a workshop-format class. Essentially, one passes out the work, the other students take it home and do their best to destroy it by legitimate means, that is, they can't say for example, "your unicorn story sucks because I hate unicorns."

Anyway, I did become more creative, but all I was writing about was food. I wrote a story about what it would be like in a post-bird flu world where there were no longer any birds and people had to adapt time-honored recipes with substitutions, mostly involving different preparations of bugs and algae.

I stopped when someone accused me of being anorexic. I don't know about youse guys, but I don't know any anorexic creative geniuses. Plus, I like eating.