These are my friends
“Yesterday, we had a had a wine tasting at St. John’s. The vineyard representative was late, so the steward went down to the cellars and brought up a number of bottles to keep us entertained until she got there. So we had all had two glasses by the time the actual tasting started. Each ‘sample’ was basically a full glass, and there were seven wines featured (none from Connecticut, unfortunately). I should mention that this was before dinner. I took copious notes, which, in retrospect, get progressively less coherent. Towards the end, I started writing “Focus?” in various places. Afterward, we all went to get cheap Chinese takeout, which we consumed on the pool table in the grad student combination room. I got into an argument with some guy about whether it was acceptable to put suet in Christmas pudding. He claimed that conceptually it is no different than butter. I argued that as the savory equivalent of butter, it had no business in a dessert. I’m not sure how it ended. Looking forward to next week’s wine tasting.”
