first day of (real) work in 7 months and friends!

last night was my first night tending bar at The World Famous Bowling Green Tavern. it was pretty sweet. i am a 'liquor peddling demon'. i don't really think i fucked anything up, but that surely means that i did something like enter a $7.00 cocktail as aa $700.00 cocktail. We'll see in a few minutes when i swing by the bar on my way to the bus stop.

work was good. it was nice to have something to do, somewhere to be. working in the hostel isn't a big deal, mostly it is just checking and re-checking my email. but the bowler was happening. from 1-3 it was pretty busy and i had to make some crazy drinks. anyone ever had a "brain hemorrhage" ? it is a 30 mil shot that is 1/2 peach schnapps and 1/2 vodka. the sugar content of the peach schnapps causes it to rise to the top and if you look at it in the right light, you'll see that there are two clear liquids on two distinct planes in the shot glass. then you take a straw and dip it into a bailey's bottle, like you would to taste a drink or something. drop the bailey's (5 mils or less) into the shot glass in the middle. the result is a weird floating brain looking thing in the middle of the schnapps and the vodka. then with another straw do the same thing with red cordial*. the result is a brain floating in seemingly nothing with red lines falling down that look like blood. brain hemorrhage! i'm happy to say that all of those pictures look like shit compared to the ones i made. i rule. I RULE!


so now i'm headed to a bus to christchurch. that's about 5 hours away. then i'm staying on a Couch Surfing couch and then in the morning onto Nelson via bus. Hart and Katie are gonna be there when i arrive! i can't explain how it feels to even think about seeing someone that i've known for longer than 5 months. never mind 25 years. we're going to do at least these things:

• one day of the Abel Tasman Great Walk
• bicycle wine tour!
• beer at the Sprig & Fern Tavern (the best beer in NZ and maybe the world)
• go on our friend's yacht!
• hug a lot
• eat meat pies
• go to the center of NZ
• take lots of pictures?

any suggestions?

this is the last (?) time i saw the Hartster. i love this picture!

*coridal is like fancy kool-aid