Cocktail #7 - High Hat


This one was a long time in the making.

About half of Tufts spends their junior year abroad, and pretty much as soon as I got there I had Robi Polgar telling me "You need to go to London, and you need to go to BESGL." And I eventually did.

BESGL was a multi-school program, so there were some of us there from Tufts, and Hamilton, and Kenyon, and Brandeis, and Catholic University, and Trinity, and Oberlin, and Vassar, and many other schools. My roommates, Kristin and Karen Elizabeth, were from Mount Holyoke and Sarah Lawrence, respectively.

Karen Elizabeth was (and probably still remains) one of the most brilliant people I have ever known. With a quirky sense of humor and some of the deepest (and sometimes most scathing) thinking I had ever encountered, I felt forever lucky to have her in my corner. BESGL was a transformational year for me — it was the year I learned I was smart — and my roommates and friends were a huge part of that. Living in London was not too shabby either, even if the dollar was at an all-time low against the pound that year.

So what does that have to do with a cocktail?

Karen now lives in Minneapolis, where she fiercely creates philanthropic partnerships during the day and then sings and dances Brazilian music at night, along with raising two humans and generally being an amazing person. I don't get to see her much. So tonight I was delighted to go to the High Hat, a place that I love, and hear great music, and talk to Karen, and have a little date with my handsome husband after he finished a tech rehearsal.

10/10 perfect night, in so many ways.

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