Junction

I feel as though I should be drinking when I sit here and write - writing insights into my personal life almost requires a martini, or at least a glass of wine. A cigarette would be nice as well, for sure. Instead I sit here with my Dr. Pepper, avoiding working on Access reports and re-normalizing a database. What fun is that?

Maybe I will have that glass of wine.

Yeah, that’s much better. It does, however, make me feel somewhat like a 35-year old woman. At least it’s a red wine instead of a white - that gives me a little bit of street cred. Wine street cred. Which is kind of like street cred on the short bus.

The wine thing’s not really my fault, I’d gone quite a while not buying any wine whatsoever that wasn’t directly for some sort of meal. But we have a wine fridge around the house now, so what am I supposed to do? Not keep bottles of wine in there? And if they’re in there, am I just supposed to leave them? Of course not, that’d be just silly. Just terribly silly.

When I was in Berkeley a friend of mine was dating a German exchange student - not one of his students, so it was okay, but still one of them European folk. We went out for drinks once and she ordered a kalimotxo, a drink that’s half red wine and half coke. Having this Dr. Pepper and this glass of wine sitting next to each other inspired me to try my own version, and I have to say the shit’s delicious, though I think I’d kill myself if I drank more than the small shot-glass worth I made in this extra glass on my desk. Interesting, but painfully sweet - somehow the red wine makes the soda even sweeter than it normally would be. I can only imagine the hangover that would ensue from something like this.

God that girl was ugly. The poor guy had been on a 6+ month dry streak, though, so I couldn’t really blame him.

Did anyone else remember to drink a Beast on the day of the beast yesterday? I had actually forgotten the whole “day of the Beast” angle until I glanced over Brew’s post from yesterday. Thank god, otherwise I would have missed it. There’s something truly special about the Beast tall boys - it brings a tear to my eye every time.

Because I finally got paid back by people who owed me money and I got a (sizeable) raise at work, I went crazy last week and bought new electronics - a DS Lite as well as parts for a new computer. AMD x2 3800, 2GB Ram, ATI X1800XT. 64-bit Windows is nice, responsive and ugly - exactly what I’m looking for in an operating system. Now I need to remind myself to stop blowing money since I already went through way too much in a week.

I’ve been talking about pudding way too much lately. I also think it’s time to go buy a pack of smokes. I’ve always been a failure at quitting when I don’t have a compelling reason to do so.

Something compel me, damnit.