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Dec. 16th, 2011 10:16 pmWent to our building's Christmas party and vodka-tasting. Chatted with a semi-fannish couple not from our building - unfortunately when green_trilobite mentioned his extensive book collection, one of them said "oh, I'll guess you be meeting your downstairs neighbours when your shelves crash through the floor, ha ha."
I can't blame her - she doesn't know about green_trilobite's OCD, or that his mind is never far away from thoughts of disaster; but now I have to assure him every hour that we live in a modern steel-and-concrete building, and the floor is *not* going to give way. He still keeps staring worriedly at the shelves, and I worry he'll have bad dreams tonight.
On a happier note, the vodka tasting was pretty interesting - someone on our social committee knows a couple who own a small vodka company (based in Oakville but they work with a factory in the Ukraine). They sell two kinds, one that's supposed to be more Russian/Polish in style, and one that's more westernized; I think I preferred the former. Of course it's hard to tell with these things how much your palate is being influenced by the description of what you should be tasting, but their brands did seem genuinely smoother than the competition - green_trilobite described the Russian/Polish-style as "evaporating on the tongue like a scotch."
ETA - I told the vodka people there's also a sake brewery in Toronto.
I can't blame her - she doesn't know about green_trilobite's OCD, or that his mind is never far away from thoughts of disaster; but now I have to assure him every hour that we live in a modern steel-and-concrete building, and the floor is *not* going to give way. He still keeps staring worriedly at the shelves, and I worry he'll have bad dreams tonight.
On a happier note, the vodka tasting was pretty interesting - someone on our social committee knows a couple who own a small vodka company (based in Oakville but they work with a factory in the Ukraine). They sell two kinds, one that's supposed to be more Russian/Polish in style, and one that's more westernized; I think I preferred the former. Of course it's hard to tell with these things how much your palate is being influenced by the description of what you should be tasting, but their brands did seem genuinely smoother than the competition - green_trilobite described the Russian/Polish-style as "evaporating on the tongue like a scotch."
ETA - I told the vodka people there's also a sake brewery in Toronto.
