Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Going out

I'm a fucking social butterfly lately, it's a strange change of pace from back in Iowa. Whereas I'd maybe go out once or twice a week back then (and each of those outings more or less revolved around drinking until bar close), here I find myself going out nearly every night of the week, and the drinking, if any, is quite limited. Just this week for example, I have Tubesday tonight (going to a bar called Tube for vegan ham'n'cheez sammies), LOST on Wednesday, Hopworks on Thursday (a local microbrewery) to hang out with some local PPKers, and then a Christopher Guest movie night on Saturday. Granted there will be some drinking at these events, given the locations, my personal level of drinking has gone way way way down. I'll have maybe two drinks on the more wild nights here, and often none at all if I'm working the next day, though that may come primarily from a fear of a 5am hangover.

I credit this new more social life primarily to the fact that I'm not playing World of Warcraft any longer. It's been hard to give it up, and there are still times I'm tempted to reinstall, but I feel happier and more fulfilled by spending time with friends in real life, and not spending all day alone in my apartment.

Of course now, between working 40 hour weeks and going out most nights, I almost feel like I don't have enough time at home, for things like cleaning and bill-paying. To be fair though, I do have enough time, I just spend it fucking around on the internet instead of doing useful things.

hmm. this is starting to sound mopey. I was going to talk about my lack of a dating-life, but then it would definitely be mopey, so I'll sign off.