so maybe that's the trick...

background: i pride myself on being *not* a "cheap drunk". i like the taste of all kinds of alcohol... a LOT, but i also like knowing when to stop before my interaction with the world at large becomes impaired.

i also used to have a record for being able to drink insane amounts of vodka without being light-headed or tipsy in the least.

on the roadtrip last month with scott, we had beer, whiskey, and brandy at various points in the trip, the latter two of which i really liked (czech beer is much better than american beer...), but drank to no effect.

but today, scott and i discovered the one kind of hard liquor that gets to me in no time... half a glass of gin and i instantly went from coherency to transposing words throughout dinner,... (which was burgers at scott's house.... after studying at a new park most of the afternoon, we decided that the best way to get home was to turn on any street that had a funny name... when we inevitably got lost, rather than asking for directions we stopped at a grocery store and bought a lot of ground beef to grill into burgers whenever we found his house again... total sense, right? this is how hanging out just me and scott goes... it's never normal, which is why we both enjoy it. :P)

conclusion: apparently gin is the trick.

that's good to know for future reference, right?