Happy New Year, Ricochet!
Okay, I'm not the first to wish you a Happy New Year, but I can be the first to open the New Year hangover thread. Mine's not as bad as it should be, because I wisely chose one color and stuck to it all evening. That's something else I learned to do in graduate school. Maybe I'll upload a book about that on Kindle, too: Dr. Berlinski's Guide to Hangover-Minimization, complete with graphs, tables, statistics, color-coding and an extensive bibliography.
Happy 2012 from your correspondent in Turkey, where most of the time you're pretty sure that what you're hearing is just fireworks, and at least, if it's not, it might be news.
Last night it was just fireworks, despite the ominous emergency warnings from the US Embassy Warden to avoid everything, and very pretty fireworks, at that, at least from what we could see of them through the rain.
But there's no way to drink that much and be completely right the next day, so I think I'm going to go back to bed now.
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Apr '11
Re: Happy New Year, Ricochet!
I find the best cure for a hangover is going for a run... But then, I don't get very bad hangovers so perhaps this doesn't work for the real thing...
Dec '11
Re: Happy New Year, Ricochet!
An ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure when it comes to dealing with hangovers. Personally, if I avoid vodka I avoid hangovers. I can't physically drink enough of other types of booze to get hungover. Vodka, seems to effect me differently, in that I don't go through stages of "buzzed". With vodka I'm stone cold sober until there's enough in me to leave me passed out drunk. For the more hangover prone, I suggest interspersing one 8 oz glass of water for every two alcoholic drinks. And ear either a real greasy burger or Chinese food before going to bed. Avoid the cliched pizza at all cost. Finnaly, at the risk of sounding square, on a conservative website no less, don't drink to excess. Alcohol should accompany your activity, not be your activity in and if itself.
Sep '11
Re: Happy New Year, Ricochet!
What you learned in graduate school (not to mix your drinks) I learned at my mother's knee (also, not to drink on an empty stomach). I am aware this will confirm Ricochet members' worst misgivings about me.
May '11
Re: Happy New Year, Ricochet!
For when you wake back up, Happy New Year, Claire.
Re: Happy New Year, Ricochet!
I'm awake! I can't believe how late it is. I almost never drink--at all--because I just don't have the fortitude I had in graduate school and I can't stand how unproductive and lazy it makes me feel the next day. Even if I just drink a glass of wine, I feel the worse for it when I wake up. But given that it was New Year's Eve, I figured what the heck. And you know, I guess this won't come as a surprise to anyone, but drinking is really fun! I enjoyed it so much! It makes you feel so friendly to strangers! It banishes all sense of melancholy! I guess that's why people do it all the time. Maybe I should make that my New Year's resolution: I solemnly promise to drink more often.
Feb '11
Re: Happy New Year, Ricochet!
Does beer with bourbon chasers count as "one color"? Evidence would seem to indicate not ...
May '10
Re: Happy New Year, Ricochet!
You'll have to keep putting stuff on Kindle since you obstinately refuse to put a tip jar on your home page (go on, just a Paypal button for "Keep Claire in cat food and fearlessly reporting on the stuff from Turkey everyone except Claire and her closest friends ignores"). Or you could publish your laundry lists on Kindle, and we could all buy them. Your choice.
May '10
Re: Happy New Year, Ricochet!
Oh, and Happy New Year, too!
Jul '10
Re: Happy New Year, Ricochet!
Hangover?
Grab a bottle of aspirin and follow directions:
Take two and keep away from children.
Re: Happy New Year, Ricochet!
Never say I don't take good advice, Robert. The Tip Jar is OPEN FOR BUSINESS!