PENN-sieve

There are 25 Coordinators at Penn State - it's a big Res. Life program with 13,000 residents - so I have a large pool of colleagues (one of the reasons I really wanted to move to a large school). They have created a social committee called HEAD - Higher Education Administrators Drinking - and boy do they go out and drink. Spam (his nickname; his real name is Emil) is the Social Committee Chair and he takes his job very seriously. Everyone receives an email with details about the next gathering and if someone does not attend 3 events, they are removed from the email invite list! On Monday, HEAD went for Martini Happy Hour and last night we had a 40s party. From what I have been told, the group is big on theme parties. When I first heard about the 40s party - I wondered what was big about the 40s - nothing in that decade seemed to stand out; what a weird theme party. Thankfully someone explained it was a 40s party like in the container of beer.

Shopping for alcohol in this state is an interesting endeavor. Grocery stores do not sell alcohol. Wine and liquor has to be bought from the Wine and Spirits stores. Beer and malt liquor has to be bought from a bottle shop or a beer distributor. Neither of those places sell mixers. So if you want to make Pina Coladas, you have to get the rum from one place and the mix from another. Pennsylvania also limits the number of ounces of alcohol a person can buy to 192 ounces. While that is a lot of alcohol, it is still weird for it to be limited. We can buy alcohol on Sunday; something you could not do in Indiana.