October 5, 2003
Begging off BloggerCon & K2's party
I have lots of notes to post from BloggerCon Day Two, but I'm tired from the 80 minutes of walking I did today. I apparently left my car as far away from Pound Hall as it is possible to park and still be within city limits. I think the problem is that I was sucked in by a Crate & Barrel with little regard to where I actually had to be for the conference. It didn't help that I wandered Harvard Yard for 40 minutes looking for a hall that was nowhere near my location.
Two people asked me for directions while I was wandering... and since I have a compulsive need to at least appear like I'm helping people, I gave out random directions with enough confidence to fool the tourists.
So because I'm tired and achy, you get K2 party notes instead.
The gathering at K2's house was excellent. I didn't leave the kitchen the entire time, but that was fine because it's about 3500 square feet. You could easily fit a camera crew in there to film a cooking show. My entire apartment fits in her kitchen. I feel compelled to warn her that I know of at least three people plotting her early demise in order to have a chance at that kitchen.
Kathleen had set up the ingredients, recipes, and tools for mixed drinks and I ended up trying all of her suggested cocktails. I enjoyed mixing the drinks and ended up making concoctions for several people. My favorite was the Absolut Hunk (recipe below), followed by the Absolut Cosmo. Dave liked the Beau Fashion. I did the whole sugar on the glass rim thing. It looked spiffy.
Recipe for the Absolut Hunk — featured in an episode of Sex and the City
4 parts Absolut Vanilla
1 part simple syrup
1 part fresh lime juice
1 part pineapple juice
Pour Absolut Vanillia over ice in a shaker. Add simple syrup, fresh lime jiuce and pinapple juice. Shake, strain, and serve in chilled martini glass. Garnish with lime.