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You've switched to hard liquor, huh?: An ode to a former life, a current life, and those future
The statement by the bartender who had given me a "free" shot twenty minutes ago, courtesy of the bride-to-be who was a hot young thing in a blue boob top. It stings a little, but I tell myself I know what I'm doing. I'm a professional. A professional drinker in Florida - like a minnow in a gator pond I'm sure ( Read more... ) -
starving on the fat of the hog
Dear Charles ( Read more... ) -
There and back again to somewhere different
Chaaaales ( Read more... ) -
A side alley for me and three
Now that I've gotten settled with a bourbon and fished an emergency cigarette out from under the couch, I can tell you what's been knocking about since I Daniel decided to be my friend ( Read more... ) -
A holiday meal for two
A girl sits in her thanksgiving dress, smoke wisping out the window, tarring snowflakes. The only new thing she can afford is the tumult of the holidays. She can payout for a new boyfriend and his family with a little change for a pack of Marlboro lights. So she has to reuse attire from her brother's wedding. And the thanksgiving before that.
What ( Read more... ) -
Dreaming of DC
I drove up this morning because I couldn't sleep ( Read more... ) -
My last cigarette, or a Bohemian Goodbye
I can't say that it's not often I spend my last night in places with a cigarette. Despite my insistence on quitting several years ago, it still seems appropriate to bid adieu to lovers and landmarks with a quiet cigarette ( Read more... ) -
Networking
Tonight I attended my first DC networking event. Unlike older sections or lawyers, the young lawyers division is amazingly receptive and alcoholic. Although some social anxiety was in play, making me sweatier than a marathoner, by my first drink I was a pro walking up to people and introducing myself. I'm a little sad I didn't participate more in ( Read more... ) -
A gilded wedding
I attended a more or less surprise wedding a few weeks ago. I suppose it's fair to say it was only a surprise to me; Greg and Nick had been waiting twenty years for the privilege of an unembellished wedding in front of an empty stage save four witnesses and a deceptively simple officiant.
On a carpet that has seen better days and more exciting plays ( Read more... ) -
Holding forth in the red court
Step right up ladies! Step right up! To me ladies! Now which one of you lovely ladies in waiting would like to expound on her issues tonight before the Queen? The Daughter? Oh no ma'am, I'm sorry, you went last time. Besides such display was much too crude.
How 'bout my sultry Mistress Lover? No? No seductive displays for us tonight? Oh, all right ( Read more... )