Merkins are reeeeaaally into their cocktails. or maybe it's just a crashing towards middle-age thing. Hard to tell which is culture and which is age when you switch continents at 30, but all of a sudden whenever i go out for drinks, all the other women are drinking cocktails and parties in people's houses are all about the host's mixed drinks -margeritas, dirty martinis, bloody marys..... never has it been so hard to get a gaddamned beer!

*sigh*