drinking

I've held off posting this recipe because it's reverse-engineered from a non-public recipe either created or modified by someone I know. However, since I can restrict access to this post, it seems silly not to post it, because I'm getting tired of periodically searching my email for it.

This is how I make the drink tech staffers know as 'apple pie.'

 Ingredients

•  cheesecloth
• 2 sticks cinnamon
• 20 cloves
• 20 allspice berries
• 2T lemon juice (~1 lemon)
• 2 cups sugar
• 2tsp vanilla extract
• 1½-2 cups everclear
• 1 gallon apple juice, not from concentrate

 Directions

Put spices in cheesecloth. Bash until cracked a bit. Put cheesecloth hunk in pot.

I had a lot of roommates during my collegiate years, and to be honest, I didn’t care for most of them. Monica stands out as the only one I’ve kept in touch with; we were friends before we became roommates, and despite my worst (best?) shenanigans, we managed to stay friends afterward.

I emailed her this past week to tell her that one of her collegiate games has stuck with me; that I’ve infected others with it, and it shows no sign of stopping.At some point, just about every person who attends an American college and lives on-campus discovers one beautiful, innate truth: it’s really fun to mess with the heads of your drunken college friends. It takes almost no mental effort on your part, and the rewards are so great that it’s sometimes even worth staying sober at the parties, just so you can be the one to tell the stories about all your friends the next day.

It is three a.m. The glass in my hand is empty. I am neither drunk nor awake, sober nor exhausted; merely a place in between that defies explanation. It is three a.m., and the glass in my hand—filled only once—is now empty. I slept somewhere between one and two hours the previous night, and followed it up today by somewhere around sixteen straight hours of work at the convention.I am exhausted; the brutal floating exhaustion that leadens feet, shortens calf muscles, and makes my lower back ache.