unexpected late night

rolled into work around 10:30 a.m. today. . yikes! last night was a lot of fun tho. . all my girls were in excellent form!

debs & i met up with qq at inoteca in the LES. very pleased with the place- extensive wine list and while the wines by the glass are $7+, they are pretty generous portions. we ordered some cheese, cured meat, a poletna dish with root vegetables, and chicken liver salad. the food was tasty, simply prepared, and paired well with the wine.

afterwards, we checked out belly where we had another round of drinks and met up with cantongirl. being a tuesday night and early no less, it was unsurprising that the scene was dead. the four of us headed to china one and chilled for awhile. got a private tour of the bar downstairs, kitchen area, etc. and hung out with burns for awhile. cool guy. debs totally worked blondie from texas and his friends.

bob appeared as out of nowhere and took us to his bar. cantongirl was holding court with two boys that we had met from china one. sometime after midnight, she was ready to jet so i left with her. met up with nels and a friend at teddy's. couldn't drink anymore but hung out anyways. . stayed up way too late. . . had to rush to get to work at some semblance of a reasonable hour. . left my contacts at home and can't remember if i turned the water off. . .