A SCREEEEEEEEEAM INTO THE SILENCE

[tortola23]

Pimm's is awesome just mixed with British "lemonade" if you can find it. It's sort of a less-sweet version of Sprite. I mix it with a tiny bit of simple syrup and some sparkling mineral water or soda water.

I've really been digging vodka martinis lately. A couple shots of decent vodka, a few drops of vermouth, and quite a bit of olive brine = AWESOME. Serve it super cold.

What are everyone's favorite beers? Beer is what I usually drink, actually.

[lyonessrampant]

Mine is Cold Smoke. I live in Montana and we have an abundance of microbreweries. . .something I will desperately miss next fall. Anyway, Cold Smoke is a nice dark, frothy porter. . .yummy. . .

[againstourfaces]

Pimm's is awesome just mixed with British "lemonade" if you can find it. It's sort of a less-sweet version of Sprite. I mix it with a tiny bit of simple syrup and some sparkling mineral water or soda water.

I've really been digging vodka martinis lately. A couple shots of decent vodka, a few drops of vermouth, and quite a bit of olive brine = AWESOME. Serve it super cold.

What are everyone's favorite beers? Beer is what I usually drink, actually.

If you can ever get your hands on Blanche de chambly you should. It's a wheat beer from Montreal. My other favourite beer is Schneider Weisse from Germany. But my favourite cheap beer of choice is Labatt 50.

[harpyemma]

Pimm's is awesome just mixed with British "lemonade" if you can find it. It's sort of a less-sweet version of Sprite. I mix it with a tiny bit of simple syrup and some sparkling mineral water or soda water.

I've really been digging vodka martinis lately. A couple shots of decent vodka, a few drops of vermouth, and quite a bit of olive brine = AWESOME. Serve it super cold.

What are everyone's favorite beers? Beer is what I usually drink, actually.

Hold up. You don't have lemonade in the States? The fuck, serious??!?! No lemonade?

Bleughgrenigbugebiue beer is vile. Even non-US beer (don't even get me started on that fizzy pop crap... gives me such a stomachache). Best i can do is a pear cider (like, alcoholic cider, not "cider" as in apple juice, a la the US). Which pretty much makes me fail at being British. That being said, i don't recall a night playing Ring of Fire where everyone else was doing shots of beer and i, hating the stuff, was doing shots of voddy. I lasted, i'm told, an admirable amount of time..._{before passing out on the toilet.}

[HappyCat]

Pimm's is awesome just mixed with British "lemonade" if you can find it. It's sort of a less-sweet version of Sprite. I mix it with a tiny bit of simple syrup and some sparkling mineral water or soda water.

I've really been digging vodka martinis lately. A couple shots of decent vodka, a few drops of vermouth, and quite a bit of olive brine = AWESOME. Serve it super cold.

What are everyone's favorite beers? Beer is what I usually drink, actually.

My cheap one is New Castle, but I tend to like abbey ales: Leffe, Hoegaarden, and Affligem come to mind. I'm a fan of blonde and amber beers.

I'm also a vodka martini girl. My brother in law and I argue about this all the time because he's a gin martini guy. However, at the end of the day--I'm totally a whiskey gal. Wild Turkey American Honey whiskey is great, if not, Jameson, if not Jack.

[tortola23]

I like Blanche de Chambly a lot. I usually gravitate towards really strong IPAs, but I also love wheat beers when it's warm outside. My all-time favorite beer is actually Chimay Cinq Cents, but it's pretty expensive so I rarely buy it. I like most of the beers that Unibroue makes, too. Any kind of Belgian Triple is fantastic.

And no, we do not have lemonade like the lemonade in the UK! I fell in love with Pimms & lemonade when I studied at Oxford, but I haven't been able to find the same kind of carbonated stuff in the US.

[books]

My cheap one is New Castle, but I tend to like abbey ales: Leffe, Hoegaarden, and Affligem come to mind. I'm a fan of blonde and amber beers.

I'm also a vodka martini girl. My brother in law and I argue about this all the time because he's a gin martini guy. However, at the end of the day--I'm totally a whiskey gal. Wild Turkey American Honey whiskey is great, if not, Jameson, if not Jack.

Ugh. Vodka and gin. Yuck, Yuck. I'm a tequila person who enjoys the occasional rum and coke or a shot of Jack. And why is it that so many humanities people are obsessed with beer? The only time I really care for a beer is Molson with a slice of really good pizza.

[againstourfaces]

I like Blanche de Chambly a lot. I usually gravitate towards really strong IPAs, but I also love wheat beers when it's warm outside. My all-time favorite beer is actually Chimay Cinq Cents, but it's pretty expensive so I rarely buy it. I like most of the beers that Unibroue makes, too. Any kind of Belgian Triple is fantastic.

And no, we do not have lemonade like the lemonade in the UK! I fell in love with Pimms & lemonade when I studied at Oxford, but I haven't been able to find the same kind of carbonated stuff in the US.

I am so confused. What is your lemonade like? Is it like Canadian lemonade (lemon juice + sugar) or German Lemonade (sprite)

[tortola23]

I am so confused. What is your lemonade like? Is it like Canadian lemonade (lemon juice + sugar) or German Lemonade (sprite)

It's like water + lemon juice + sugar. That's what you'd get if you ordered lemonade in America. Except the "sugar" would probably be "corn syrup", unfortunately. It isn't carbonated at all.

[againstourfaces]

It's like water + lemon juice + sugar. That's what you'd get if you ordered lemonade in America. Except the "sugar" would probably be "corn syrup", unfortunately. It isn't carbonated at all.

Oh okay. Yeah, that's what it's like in Canada. phew. I thought the world was collapsing.

But there are weird food differences. Our mustard is more yellow. Your ketchup is more sweet.

[lolopixie]

Sorry to break up the brew talk....I just need to let out a scream. THEEEEEEEESISSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, that felt good. I just have no idea how I am going to have this thing completed by April 5th!!!!!!! Ugh. I will have 4 chapters completed (1st drafts, I'm yet to go back and edit what my adv has commented on) with one textual analysis chapter left and the conclusion after I'm done with the chapter I'm working on now. After about a 30 minute cry-fest earlier tonight, I somehow managed to crank out 8 pages. The good news: I'm only 5 pages away from the minimum page requirement - so at least I don't have to worry about it not being long enough. It is just soooooooo frustrating. Having surgery the semester you write your thesis will mess you up! I feel like I got jipped 2.5 weeks due to a medication induced fog.

I'm getting it together - but I still just feel like I might snap at someone really soon - if I haven't already done so and just didn't realize it. I have decided that until I have this bad boy done the phone is OFF while I'm at home. No surfing the internet except for when I've done enough work to constitute a 5-10 minute break.

Jesus, take the wheel!!!

/rant

thanks for listening

[Sparky]

And why is it that so many humanities people are obsessed with beer?

Uhh...because the only type of hard alcohol we can afford is more properly used to disinfect surgical instruments?

[abookbumble]

Sorry to break up the brew talk....I just need to let out a scream. THEEEEEEEESISSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, that felt good. I just have no idea how I am going to have this thing completed by April 5th!!!!!!! Ugh. I will have 4 chapters completed (1st drafts, I'm yet to go back and edit what my adv has commented on) with one textual analysis chapter left and the conclusion after I'm done with the chapter I'm working on now. After about a 30 minute cry-fest earlier tonight, I somehow managed to crank out 8 pages. The good news: I'm only 5 pages away from the minimum page requirement - so at least I don't have to worry about it not being long enough. It is just soooooooo frustrating. Having surgery the semester you write your thesis will mess you up! I feel like I got jipped 2.5 weeks due to a medication induced fog.

I'm getting it together - but I still just feel like I might snap at someone really soon - if I haven't already done so and just didn't realize it. I have decided that until I have this bad boy done the phone is OFF while I'm at home. No surfing the internet except for when I've done enough work to constitute a 5-10 minute break.

Jesus, take the wheel!!!

/rant

thanks for listening

If it makes you feel better, my thesis binder has aggressively bitten my foot multiple times. Really-- every time I wake up to pee in the middle of the night, it is inevitably what I trip over on my way to the bathroom. Well, I either trip on the binder or the latest wine bottle I've emptied, drinking over the fact that I keep procrastinating instead of writing my thesis.

[books]

Uhh...because the only type of hard alcohol we can afford is more properly used to disinfect surgical instruments?

I just want to make it clear that I'm not trying to be snooty; I'm genuinely curious. Oh, dear. I will probably I have to become a beer aficionado once I embrace the poverty that is graduate school.

On a different note, what does "history-ish" phd mean exactly?

[againstourfaces]

Uhh...because the only type of hard alcohol we can afford is more properly used to disinfect surgical instruments?

We brood too much, think too much. We cope by making our head all spinny.

[Tybalt]

Sorry to break up the brew talk....I just need to let out a scream. THEEEEEEEESISSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, that felt good. I just have no idea how I am going to have this thing completed by April 5th!!!!!!! Ugh. I will have 4 chapters completed (1st drafts, I'm yet to go back and edit what my adv has commented on) with one textual analysis chapter left and the conclusion after I'm done with the chapter I'm working on now. After about a 30 minute cry-fest earlier tonight, I somehow managed to crank out 8 pages. The good news: I'm only 5 pages away from the minimum page requirement - so at least I don't have to worry about it not being long enough. It is just soooooooo frustrating. Having surgery the semester you write your thesis will mess you up! I feel like I got jipped 2.5 weeks due to a medication induced fog.

I'm getting it together - but I still just feel like I might snap at someone really soon - if I haven't already done so and just didn't realize it. I have decided that until I have this bad boy done the phone is OFF while I'm at home. No surfing the internet except for when I've done enough work to constitute a 5-10 minute break.

Jesus, take the wheel!!!

/rant

thanks for listening

Tell me about it. My committee has been waiting on this chapter for two weeks. I have a 100+ page word file of notes, and my works cited is 10 pages long. I intended to crank it out this weekend. Did it happen? Noooooo, I've been grading awful undergrad papers all day today (still in my office actually), and yesterday, I was pulled by the draw of going out for sushi with the other two mega-nerdy members of my cohort.

[lolopixie]

If it makes you feel better, my thesis binder has aggressively bitten my foot multiple times. Really-- every time I wake up to pee in the middle of the night, it is inevitably what I trip over on my way to the bathroom. Well, I either trip on the binder or the latest wine bottle I've emptied, drinking over the fact that I keep procrastinating instead of writing my thesis.

I've even cut the booze out of my life trying to get this thing done! Maybe I need to bring wine time back.

[abookbumble]

I've even cut the booze out of my life trying to get this thing done! Maybe I need to bring wine time back.

Definitely-- I don't know how you've managed without! As far as I'm concerned, my thesis won't go anywhere without some chianti or malbec helping it along. (I've found the same to be true of writing papers, grading papers, and, of course, the application process as a whole.)

[cquin]

And no, we do not have lemonade like the lemonade in the UK! I fell in love with Pimms & lemonade when I studied at Oxford, but I haven't been able to find the same kind of carbonated stuff in the US.

Oh, yes!! I also studied at Oxford for a semester and was introduced to the wonder that is Pimms and elderberry. AMAZING! Nothing in the States tastes quite like it.

[abookbumble]

Oh, yes!! I also studied at Oxford for a semester and was introduced to the wonder that is Pimms and elderberry. AMAZING! Nothing in the States tastes quite like it.

I had an elderflower presse martini in a little cafe on the upper west side last fall-- brought me right back to Oxford.

[lolopixie]

Hello, Universe? It's me, Lauren. I am speaking an acceptance letter into existence - TODAY! I appreciate your cooperation. Thanks.

[tortola23]

I feel weirdly optimistic and upbeat today, much to my coworkers' delight. Maybe everything will work out, y'all. I'm trying to wait hopefully instead of despairingly.

[tortola23]

(Sorry about the "y'all." That's what happens when you live in the South your whole life.)

[noxrosa]

ooo, i'll have to try that. i've just been drinking it with soda since i figured it'd be nasty with anything else, but ginger ale might be a nice compliment.

we should probably just start an entire thread devoted to alcohol. haha.

The Bison Grass vodka is incredible with apple juice. It tastes like apple pie, but not sickly sweet like an appletini.

[wild_rose]

Sigh. No news doesn't feel like good news.