His interest, aside from slinging sinkers as a sidearming right-hander, was medicine.

the servaline genet

A minor character in Romeo and Juliet, Abram is a servingman in the Montague household who fights with the Capulet servants in the opening scene of the play.

But what else was there to do, besides hanging around, shooting the shit and drinking or drugging one's self into zombiedom?