i met an editor for drinks at Mas in the Village. Contrary to what I thought, Mas wasn’t named for the Spanish word “more.” It was named for the French word for “farmhouse.”

Anyway, it has a great ambience, and the crowd was very international, sophisticated, and older than the usual 20-something trendsters. This crowd looked tasteful and stylish. discerning.

Mas has two house cocktails, a martini made with homemade citron vodka and fresh grapefruit, with the rim dipped in tahitian-vanilla perfumed sugar and sea salt; and a daiquiri made with haitian rum, lemon juice and ginger sugar. I ordered the ginger daiquiri, but i could swear i got the martini, especially since i asked the bartender about the delicious crystals on the rim and he said it was the mix of salt and vanilla sugar.

anyway, the editor i was meeting ordered the daiquiri too, and she got exactly the same drink i did! quirky. could it be that both of us got the same wrong drink? or can my tastebuds not discern the difference between ginger sugar and a hint of grapefruit? hmmm.

so the end result of my meeting is, 1. i have a hangover (one drink! i’m a lightweight!), and 2. i’ll be freelancing for 3 days next week at a weekly. we’ll see how it goes. but i’m optimistic. the work seems interesting and the staff and the magazine are appealing.

i had to answer the question, Do i like freelancing? tonight. I said, as i’ve done several times before now, that i did not become a freelancer voluntarily, but that after 2-plus years now, i’m starting to get the hang of it. it could just be that i’ve been extraordinarily busy in the last two months so i cannot remember the panic and anxiety of the stretches of downtime that happen several times a year. Or, it could be that i have actually gotten used to the whole rhythm and am figuring out how to make it work for me.

not sure yet. time will tell.