I had a dog, a long time ago, that I named after this song. He was sort of a Shepherd mix and had a tan coat, the color of barley.
Went to see Traffic 3 times and each one of them was a canceled show. Bummer.
This is a text book example of how they operated, Doc. You have my sympathy. The "study buddy" thing you referred to is call undershepherding. They even had a class that taught how to do this. It was called Witnessing and Undershepherding (The W&U Class). For me, the realization came in session 5 when I discovered, by accident, my "study buddy" was actually "engaged" to the class instructor. By then it was too late for me. I was hooked. I stuck around for the better part of the next 20 years. My bad.
Have you ever noticed how hard it is to make things come to pass with positive believing? Now, negative believing, on the other hand, is a piece of cake. Let one little fear creep into your mind and BOOM!, you own it, baby.
What's up with that?