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[vanillafluffy]

It's so good to be home. A little strangeness---where did I get all this STUFF, and wtf is it?!---but mostly relief not to have anything furry nuzzling me, snuffling, whimpering, whining or yipping. (Although I'm really going to miss that nice, cushy office chair....)

I got all of four hours sleep last night before Ears, my Estonian alarm clock went off, sending me on a merry scamper to finish all the last minute things I'd slacked on. One of the things that's challenging about staying there is that it's a very high-maintanence deal. I always tend to do more housework there than I do at home in a month (dishes not included).

S. made it well worth my while, though. Did she bring me rum? No, she did better than that---she brought me a LARGE bottle of ABSINTHE! Oh, how I squeed! Ever since I saw From Hell, I've really wanted absinthe. I got a teeny little airline-sized bottle as a souvenir when R. went to England last year, and I finally had a thimbleful for my birthday and *loved* it. (I adore black liquorice, and that was like liquorice on steroids!)

Not only is this a bigger bottle, it's a damn COOL bottle. Check this out:



That shape is just incredible! Of course, not having tasted it yet, I can only hope it'll live up to the other stuff. I had to really hunt to find a pic showing *that* bottle, so I don't know if it's so bad that no one drinks it, or so expensive that no one buys it. It might just be really obscure, I don't know....

But now I've got enough to actually get tight on. (Oh, relax---all that malarkey about absinthe causing raving lunacy was propaganda from the French wine industry.) Maybe it'll help me write this bloody crossover From Hell that I volunteered for....

S. also presented me with a leopard print quilted tote bag with "St. Maartens" embroidered on it. It comes with a matching wrap, a make-up bag and a hair scrunchy. Very cool! I've already decided that if and when I take a belly dance class, *that's* gonna be the bag I carry my stuff in!

And they're going to the Magnolia Bluegrass Festival in two weeks, so I get to to this again. Well, sort of. Since it's only from Thursday thru Sunday, I'm NOT dragging my computer over there again. I'll make do with hers, even though it's a temperamental piece of shit. (I don't care how cool those commercials make the Mac look---I'm sticking to my PC, thank you very much!)

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Comments

Absinthe!

[teresa-c.livejournal.com]

Oh, how I wish I could sample it with you!

Tell me all about it when you do.

::daydreams about From Hell::

Re: Absinthe!

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Never fear, I'll probably babble about it at length.

I haven't actually tried this, but I *think* you could approximate the taste by grinding up 6-8 liquorice Altoids and stirring it into a shot of vodka. Intensely HOT liquorice, with a kick.

The crossover...did I tell you about this? CSI: Miami gets a visit from 21st-century Abberline---at the request of kukkurkurat, who's looking forward to the angst-fest of Abberline and Horatio Caine. Sometimes I wonder how I get myself into these things....

[majolika.livejournal.com]

I shouldn't give you any wonderful advice but just snuffle and whimper and scratch at you full force, oh you foul PC lover you, but anyway - do you drink your absinthe the correct classical (milky) way? it's really worth it to get the right victorian feel. A few weeks ago I was doing the absinthe ceremony for a few crazy lesbians and they really ended up mental in the most romantic way, rolling on the floor talking debauchery and poetry ... if only they'd write From Hell stories!

(and if I'd only drink alcohol ...)

welcome back home!

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'll have you know, I used to have a Performa 450, back in the day. Maybe it's just all the *stuff* she's running on it, but S's system is so godawful conflicted you have to restart it constantly just to get it unfrozen. Whereas, my little workhorse PC does most of what I ask it to do without demur. I'm lacking software to get everything going the way I'd like it to, but as long as it does the things I NEED it to---internet and word processing, the rest is gravy.

So far, I've had *one* thimbleful of absinthe, so I haven't really developed any "habits" as yet. I'd love to be able to do the whole thing properly with the glass and the spoon and the sugar...not that I have a proper spoon, but I daresay I can improvise something.

[majolika.livejournal.com]

oh, now I see. Like my neighbour H's Apple. I can't count how often I ran over to defrost it. Sometimes I try to throw out some software when he's not looking but he's always looking. To make sure I don't see his nude self portraits.

I still have a classic sitting on my shelf! It won the "loudest hard drive" competition back in the day:)

we don't have a spoon either, works brillantly with a fork.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I remember the Apple II and the 11e. And I really wanted an orange iMac. But then PC's started getting friendlier (like the old Apples) and Macs started getting buggy...at least the ones that I was visiting. (S has been a MacIntosh fancier from the beginning, to the point that her schnauzer stud is named Macs, short for MacIntosh---and her cat is named PC.)

Now, tell me, what is the standard operating procedure for the absinthe ritual. I know I need to get some sugar cubes.... How big of a glass? What ratio of liquor-water-sugar? What order are they combined in? Do I have to set anything aflame?

[majolika.livejournal.com]

I can't really describe these absinthe glasses; basically thick medium sized goblet type crystal glasses, a bit like little icecream glasses really. Pour absinthe first, put two sugar cubes on the spoon (well, on the fork, balance it against a second glass) and pour non-sparkling, cold but not iced water VERY SLOWLY over the sugar into the absinthe. The ratio I do is 3:1, but this is quite strong, many people prefer it much thinner. Watch absinthe get milky, think of the debauchee of your choice, do not stir! meditate a little and drink. In case you have a glass drinking straw, you can use this (I seem to remember Mr. Abberline uses one?)

People in Poland dip the sugar into the absinthe, light it on the spoon and caramelize it; but that's some totally degenerate modern idea.

have fun and keep us posted!

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I know where there is a glass blowing studio...I wonder how much a hollow glass tube would cost me?

I thought it was rather tasty at full-strength, but that was just a small shotglass worth...and by the third-and-final tiny sip, my tonsils were smoking.