1.9.01 – drink me

after the first preview on sunday i went out to Vinny’s for a drink with some of the tech guys. i was drinking a white russian and commented to someone that white russians remind me of college cast parties. then i started thinking about what i associate with various drinks. i came up with the following: white russians taste like college cast parties, vodka shots make me think of valerie, gin and tonics belong to david ball, gin and sprite belong to lauren and fall afternoons in our dorm junior year. gin and juice reminds me of paul and terra, amaretto sours taste like last summer in boise, although if they have tangerine juice in them then i think of grant. diet sprite and strawberry wine make me think of slumber parties in lauren’s apartment on green street, strongbow cider reminds me of oxford pubs, peach cider makes me think of being a freshman again, cheap red wine of drinking in the stanford house at oxford. white wine is summer dinners with my parents. hot buttered rum is christmas time when i was a kid, newcastle makes me think of lauren, and also jeff. jack & cokes remind me of parties at my brother’s frat at MIT when i was in high school. margaritas make me think of hannah goldie and the “i’m blue aboo-dee-aboo-di” song and fountain hopping and scrabble.