Hey Ive been there done that with zannies.... last time I had them it was right smack back in the middle of exam period. When I picked them up I had a psych exam the next day. As a break from study I had 15mg diazepam as a chaser to around 300-400mg codeine while playing some Skyrim on 360. Nothing crazy but enough for a couple hrs of forgetting about it all.
Then later that day I acquired some zans, and despite knowing from past experience that Im a fucking headcase with them proceeded with having 7mg that arvo and played SKyrim all day. This was all before a 2pm exam the next day and an early rise for 2hr trip down the HWY to see my psych to get my dex script filled (then 2 hrs back).... then the exam about half an hour after I got back.
I had 2 more fairly intense pscych exams in this period where I was just going stupid with dex studying and capping it off with fucking knows how much alpraz each night.
The whole thing is a haze.... I really have very little recall of what was essentially a 9-day period. I had never been more nervous to check my UNI results but somehow I managed a D, CR and a P (D=distinction, CR=credit and p=pass). Never been more relieved. The only difference to previous semesters is I usually hover around the D, HD level for most units. Ahh well... really dont give a fuck of course, at the end of the day all you gotta do is pass right.
I think theres a lesson there.... you can still be functional while having way too much alpraz, despite the probability that you wont remember fuck all about it. Its like your consciousness goes on autopilot and whatever mysterious part of your psyche that controls self awareness and regulating and acting like a regular human gets pushed to the background. I could be wrong but I think Freud would call that the 'ID'... (as opposed to the EGO and SUPEREGO).
Anyway my point being that that experience as well as about 3 or 4 other experiences over the course of 2011 has convinced me to treat zans with respect. Great to have in the house when you need em, but they just deserve respect, simple as that. Its your own mental health your playing with, and when your stash runs out, and suddenly you cant sleep night after night feeling distraught and panicing about ansolutely nothing is not a place you wanna be.