"It wasn't that big a deal with the vacuum. And I had a bunch of help," Annie said generously. Really the biggest issue had been that she had been so hungover she'd thrown up in the shower, and then she'd had to change a lightbulb, which had of course seemed impossible at the time. "But I don't think I'll do a keg stand this year. That was probably a mistake."

No 'probably,' it had definitely been kind of a nail in the severity-of-the-hangover coffin.