Apartment Hunting Misery Part 2 + Tequila Avoidance Therapy

[xraytheenforcer]

Still nowhere to live. 15 days until Homelessness. We look at 2 1 places tonight -- maybe we'll get lucky? (Just got a call that one of the places has just been rented. Fuckers.)

Also, am formally swearing off tequila for the remainder of my life. I don't know what it is about that stuff, but I was wrecked from Tuesday night's outing (going away party for a colleague). Nothing says "Teh Sux" like dry heaves on the subway.

Tequila Avoidance Therapy
(aka Classic Margarita)

2 oz silver tequila
1 1/3 oz cointreau
2/3 oz fresh squeezed lime juice

Shake over ice. Strain into glass. Walk into bathroom and pour the margarita into the toilet. (this cuts out the middle-man, you, from having to gestate the margarita for a few hours -- embarrassing yourself in the process -- before relinquishing the drink to its fate in the sewers of your home town). Flush. Twice. Curl up asleep on the cool, cool tiles until morning.

Comments

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

One does not "drink tequila". One "gets mugged in Mexico".

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

LOL
I got mugged in my own damned bathroom. Treacherous swill, agave.

[mandyly1977.livejournal.com]

We're gonna have fun with that bar in LA. That's all I'm saying.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[after-nightfall.livejournal.com]

Thirded. Good luck with the appartment!

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

merci beaucoup!

[cwrubs.livejournal.com]

Man M, I've been totally missing in action. I need to get back and read some entries. 15 days? Wow. Hang in there kid, if anyone can make it happen, you can.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

thanks, gorgeous. tonight's appt. was a fucking pit of despair. disgusting. I would not move there if they sterilized the place with gamma rays. grosssssssssssssssssssssssss

[manipul8.livejournal.com]

Tequila, Lemon Lime and Bitters is my drink of choice - handed to me by an ex. I get looks of either worried looks of "are you insane?" or impressed looks of "this girl is hardcore" from bartenders when I order it - even more so when I specifically ask for it to be made with Soda Water rather than the lemonade that seems to occasionally find it's way into the glass.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

embrace the Girl is Hawd Koa. Cannae be naught else!!!

[metzhead.livejournal.com]

Vestrit, Barry, and Kama looked at me funny when I downed two shots in a row, neat, no chaser. I loves me some Tequila. It tastes like burning.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but you also own a motorcycle. You like to live on the edge. :p

[sivestrit.livejournal.com]

"Nothing says "Teh Sux" like dry heaves on the subway."

See, from a distance that would be a funny story if I hadn’t been there so many times myself on the London Underground.

Good luck on the flat hunting and on the sickness receding.

I like your TAT. It reminds me of a similar strategy I have when it comes to motor vehicles.

Step one: go to dealerships, check out cars.
Step two: go home. Decide not to buy a car.
Step three: dig hole in backyard instead.
Step four: once a week or on some regular basis, go to backyard and throw money into hole.

This saves everybody a lot of time and is better for the environment.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

LOL, Si. That is a brilliant move on the auto front.

I have made it a rule to never commute while nauseated unless it's my job on the line. Alas, Wednesday I simply had to send the TOC out to pre-press, so I had to go into work.

[sivestrit.livejournal.com]

>>Wednesday I simply had to send the TOC out to pre-press, so I had to go into work.>>

Hmm, I just looooove checking proofs on press day with a raging hangover.

Mind you, the best interview I done in my life was done while I was still pissed from the night before.

Through complete and utter over-compensation for my condition, I took the most comprehensive notes ever. Ended up not writing it up for about six weeks due to one thing or another and wrote it straight from notes - didn't need to check a single thing or make one clarifying phone call.

tried it again a few weeks after that. i/v was a complete car crash

[sivestrit.livejournal.com]

>>>the best interview I done in my life>>>

I write for a living and yet I still do shit like this...

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

LOL

I did the same thing in an email to a potential landlord. In the same sentence I mentioned I was an editor, and also missed a very obvious possessive. Ah well, blame it on work fatigue.

[icemannorth.livejournal.com]

Given the fact that I really didn't drink that much on that particular evening, I was surprisingly relieved when you guys called off the meeting the following evening. No dry heaves for me, but considering how little I actually drank that night (a margarita, a few beers, and said tequila) I did feel like shit hat day. It could just be that I was getting old, but I drank far more on Saturday and was quite OK on Sunday. So I blame that person coming up with that splendid idea of finishing the evening with a tequila shot.

BTW, beside the tequila, thanks for the hospitality you and Doug showed me during my stay in NYC.

Good look on the apartment hunting!