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I went swimming this evening, and it was one of those evenings where the sky slowly faded out with only a little bit of orange in the west. It was a blue sunset, if that makes sense-- clouds all over the sky, but gray like marble. Not blanketing clouds, and not wispy ones either, just round scraps, like someone had taken a great handful of cumulus cloud and plucked off bits like petals from a flower. Very autumnal looking. I had a good time just floating and watching the light change and go out.
( A rousing game of Marry-Shag-Cliff! )
I mentioned a while ago that my alcohol consumption shot through the roof this July. I think I drank more last month than I have in the past three months. This is mostly because July was a socially hectic month. I count myself lucky to have gotten out with only one and a half hangovers, considering the abuse I put my liver through.
While I can generally avoid hangovers by drinking enough water, not mixing my booze too much, and generally outsleeping the bastards (and sometimes a judicious decision to just puke and get it out, though I try not to make a habit of that, because bleargh), I stand by my theory of anti-hangover foods as well. Not so much foods to eat beforehand, but foods to eat when you've woken up and you're juuuuust on the cusp of not quite feeling hungover but not working at full capacity, either.
For me, that would be mint tea, Gatorade (lemon-lime or blue flavor. Yes, blue is a flavor, shut up), ginger ale, McDonalds french fries, rice, rice dumped into chicken broth, dry-scrambled eggs, and leftover spaghetti, though noodles of most kind can do in a pinch. Dry cereal jammed by the fistful into the mouth also works, but I don't really like much milk on my cereal anyway.
I'm sure there are chemical reasons for it-- electrolytes, proteins, starches, salts, whatever, all balancing out—but I just know what I like. So, what do you eat when you're hungover, or trying not to be?
( A rousing game of Marry-Shag-Cliff! )
I mentioned a while ago that my alcohol consumption shot through the roof this July. I think I drank more last month than I have in the past three months. This is mostly because July was a socially hectic month. I count myself lucky to have gotten out with only one and a half hangovers, considering the abuse I put my liver through.
While I can generally avoid hangovers by drinking enough water, not mixing my booze too much, and generally outsleeping the bastards (and sometimes a judicious decision to just puke and get it out, though I try not to make a habit of that, because bleargh), I stand by my theory of anti-hangover foods as well. Not so much foods to eat beforehand, but foods to eat when you've woken up and you're juuuuust on the cusp of not quite feeling hungover but not working at full capacity, either.
For me, that would be mint tea, Gatorade (lemon-lime or blue flavor. Yes, blue is a flavor, shut up), ginger ale, McDonalds french fries, rice, rice dumped into chicken broth, dry-scrambled eggs, and leftover spaghetti, though noodles of most kind can do in a pinch. Dry cereal jammed by the fistful into the mouth also works, but I don't really like much milk on my cereal anyway.
I'm sure there are chemical reasons for it-- electrolytes, proteins, starches, salts, whatever, all balancing out—but I just know what I like. So, what do you eat when you're hungover, or trying not to be?
