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Of all the glorious facets that make up my Violet life, the one that garners the second most envy points is the three day weekend. C’est vrai, we don’t have Friday classes, and, as long as we stray away from those pesky chem labs and enormous, recitation-requiring lectures, we never will. Come Thursday at 3:15, our work week is over, but before you too get all green-eyed, we’d like to say that three successive responsibility-free nights come with varyingly heavy prices. We youngsters have yet to master the art of social drinking; imbibing is still a means, and the end is often ugly. Thursday night all is roses –double shots of Georgi all round! Friday night we’ve gotten over our a.m. declaration of abstinence, but did somebody bring the chasers? And Saturday night…Saturday night just hurts. We’re talking mixed drinks, and slowly. We may not make it out at all, we think. Let’s have a girl’s night in and watch Real Housewives of Manhattan reruns and get take out from the Hummus Place. And then girls night in turns into girls and boys night in and boys need more than pinot gris and don’t find RHM amusing after the first two minutes, so out we go again. Oh yuck, we mewl, bacchus why must thou play the serpant? But then again, this is our last hurrah; we have four recovery days a’coming, might as well go out with panache.
Cheap Shots anyone? Really, though, we’re curious as to how all you post-grads manage. What role does alcohol play in your lives? Star? Guest-star? Cameo?
Girl-dancing-to-iPod-in-back-of-bus? And when(if at all) did you make the decision that taste mattered more than percentage?
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Jackie Preta
Lauren Bush
Andrew Nodell
Chappy Morris
April 11, 2008 12:00pm
It’s something I’m still struggling with. So many of my friends have fallen victim to the liquid dinner trend…not healthy. I try not to have more than one or two cocktails a night in general, though on special occasions I’ll go all out!
April 11, 2008 12:18pm
“Oh yuck, we mewl, Bacchus why must thou play the serpant [sic]”. Word-vomit.
To answer the question, post-grad, I have stopped drinking vodka and started drinking more slowly.
good question. post grad, i still love the vod, and i feel like it gives me the most bang for my buck when i go out. hm but i always try to eat some sort of dinner/food before i go out and i also try to make myself drink water sporatically throughout the night at the bar. and then, when that doesn’t work…i turn to blue ice gatorade the next morning. stuff is magic.
April 11, 2008 2:36pm
cassy, you’re right. the whole booze as meal thing isn’t healthy, but how else are we supposed to fit into our skinnies? that sounds awful, I know but it’s true. except of course drinking makes turning down complimentary bar bites kind of difficult! on my good nights, I grab one of those almond packs from starbucks on my way out, and they do a pretty good job of convincing me I’ve eaten dinner.
Lots and lots of H2O and then plenty of ice in those drinks. How about one drink per destination/ Carry your bottle of water between your watering holes. Also, Dionysus is a far gentler god than Bacchus, really. Also more attractive. Dionysian may be wild, but bacchanals are just sloppy.