I was a bartender last night at the CCPN Christmas Party. Since A is a CCPN staff, I was "volunteering" to help out (for a free ticket). It was pretty fun serving drinks for 200+ people (well, not all 200 people came to the bar). The selection of drinks was fairly limited: Hennessy XO, Sparkling champagne, red wine, white wine, hot chocolate, cranberry juice with XO, orange juice with XO, hot chocolate with XO, and hot coke. While being a bartender means you can't really go out and socialize all night, it means that a lot of people recognize you. So, that gives you something to talk about, at least to start. It was also neat to see a couple unexpected faces, including a coworker and an SFU engineer I know who just graduated and moved back to Taiwan. All in all, a good time. The Christmas parties are just getting started.

In other news, I had my first facial. It was painful. But it's amazing how much cleaner my nose looks without the blackheads.