Jane Austen, Jane Austen, Jane Austen. My number-one drug of choice. I could spend all day rereading Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Mansfield Park. Yeah, even Mansfield Park. Then there are the movies. Mr. Darcy fencing. Mr. Darcy in a clinging wet shirt. Even Mr. Darcy bathing. Various other bare-assed naked charac ...ters that Jane Austen would have never put into her novels but which Hollywood and the BBC feel her great works lack. Are there enough hours in the day to read Austen, watch Austen (or at least what purports to be Austen), then engage in some serious imbibing with my girlfriends? Unfortunately, the slight inconvenience of having to work for a living leaves me less hours for Austen than I would like. That and obsessing over the fact that I was supposed to be getting married but instead am boyfriend-less and best-male-friend-less.