The Return of Thirsty Thursday
**Note: This post was written last Friday, but some issues between my computer, the blogger website, and what I'm guessing is the Chinese firewall technology, kept me from publishing it until today.**
After the revelry of the weekend, I needed a couple of days to pull my life together now that I'm going to be heading to medical school and all (I had really started to let myself go the last few weeks while I was waiting to hear back from Tufts.)
Tuesday night ended up being one of the best nights I have ever spent sitting in a small apartment by myself. By some miracle, Jacob's Creek, the cheapest bottle of wine I could find at Carrefour (the French supermarket that is one of the best sources of readily consumable food for expats) ended up being a really great Cabernet... which went surprisingly well with my frozen, pop-in-the-rice-cooker-and-steam dumplings. I made a serious dent in Mount Laundry, which had become too conspicuous to ignore as it towered ominously about a foot above the end of my bed, and also watched one of the better movies I have seen since I've been here, Thank You for Smoking. I highly recommend the movie as well as the combination of red wine and pre-cooked, frozen dumplings.
At work on Wednesday morning I got an email from Justin the New Zealander inviting me to the grand opening of Micasa, a new tapas (that's Spanish for appetizers or snacks or something) restaurant and bar, on Thursday night. The grand opening festivities included free food and drink (wine, beer and liquor) from 6 to 10 pm... needless to say, I was excited.
The event was all I could have hoped it to be! I met Justin and Nellie inside where they had ideally positioned themselves, standing about 10 feet from both the bar (far enough away to avoid the crowd, but close enough to get rapid drink refills) and the door to the kitchen (from which poured a seemingly endless stream of waiters carrying trays of tapas.)
I got drunk. Work on Friday was difficult.
After the revelry of the weekend, I needed a couple of days to pull my life together now that I'm going to be heading to medical school and all (I had really started to let myself go the last few weeks while I was waiting to hear back from Tufts.)
Tuesday night ended up being one of the best nights I have ever spent sitting in a small apartment by myself. By some miracle, Jacob's Creek, the cheapest bottle of wine I could find at Carrefour (the French supermarket that is one of the best sources of readily consumable food for expats) ended up being a really great Cabernet... which went surprisingly well with my frozen, pop-in-the-rice-cooker-and-steam dumplings. I made a serious dent in Mount Laundry, which had become too conspicuous to ignore as it towered ominously about a foot above the end of my bed, and also watched one of the better movies I have seen since I've been here, Thank You for Smoking. I highly recommend the movie as well as the combination of red wine and pre-cooked, frozen dumplings.
At work on Wednesday morning I got an email from Justin the New Zealander inviting me to the grand opening of Micasa, a new tapas (that's Spanish for appetizers or snacks or something) restaurant and bar, on Thursday night. The grand opening festivities included free food and drink (wine, beer and liquor) from 6 to 10 pm... needless to say, I was excited.
The event was all I could have hoped it to be! I met Justin and Nellie inside where they had ideally positioned themselves, standing about 10 feet from both the bar (far enough away to avoid the crowd, but close enough to get rapid drink refills) and the door to the kitchen (from which poured a seemingly endless stream of waiters carrying trays of tapas.)
I got drunk. Work on Friday was difficult.
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