This weekend I really did party like it was 1999 and I was 22 again. Only can I tell you that this 29-year-old body? Does not deal so well with 22-year-old partying. I am so tired. And I think I’m getting sick (whine).
When I was 22, my friend Katie joined me in NYC, and we found this tiny little sixth-floor walk-up (bathroom and kitchen shared a sink, the only shelf in the kitchen had to serve as both pot/pan storage AND a vanity, and both bedrooms shared one closet) on 14th and 1st (dangerously close to Beauty Bar).
We both worked at Morgan Stanley, both as assistants, both on a 7:00 a.m. start time. And yet somehow EVERY SINGLE NIGHT we were out until 4:00 a.m. We had getting ready down to a groggy 15-minute science and each kept our suit jackets on the back of our chairs at work so all we had to worry about was pants and a reasonably clean blouse. Yes, we were THAT CLASSY.
I have no idea how we did it. Really, I think it violated some laws of neuroscience and, I don’t know, maybe even physics! Why not! All I know is that in retrospect, it was WRONG. And yet so much fun.
Anyway, thank goodness I don’t have any photos of my more recent debauchery. Instead, I’m just including pictures of my halcyon days of partying in NY, when sprawling across friends and strangers or downing lemon drop shots were perhaps more age appropriate and definitely less painful the morning after.
A routine Wednesday night at our neighborhood pub, O’Hanlon’s. Egads, I wore that top out just two weekends ago!
I apparently had to be in EVERY PICTURE, even when there wasn’t room.