i know i am when I've got my scotch gaze* workin *Scotch gaze: Toward the end of his life, British author Kingsley Amis sometimes appeared in photographs with a resplendent sheen on his forehead, nose and cheeks. Some people call it "sweat alcohol," a common problem among heavy drinkers, Alexander Waugh writes in Bookforum.com. "On both of the occasions on which I had the pleasure to meet this funny and distinguished man, he drank whisky throughout lunch and by the afternoon was wearing that slightly bewildered, slightly aggressive, slightly penitent expression known as the 'Scotch gaze.' . . . It is an expression curiously unique to whisky drinkers."