I (A)M

went here and there

went out with my friends on Saturday night to engage in the usual “celebratory” affairs. There’s never anything to celebrate but there’s always a reason to drink.

Since nobody wants to be designated driver anymore, we ended up taking the bus, even in the extremely harsh conditions of very heavy rain.

Our friend was late so we decided to go to a McDonald’s to eat and test our chances at Monopoly time at McDonald’s .. (so far all i’ve won is a small soft drink )

A homeless looking man came in and started to ask if anyone wanted to buy postcards. He was harmless and just wanted a burger. He ignored our table (when four people are sharing a box of chicken McNuggets , you know they don’t have any money) and approached a table directly behind us. The “dad” at that table immediately said, “Leave us alone alright, it’s a family affair,” and he subsequently added “it’s someone’s birthday.”

The post-card man then said in an extremely nice tone, “Happy Birthday” then he walked off muttering loudly, “who has a birthday at a McDonald’s? A family affair? Pfftt”

Yeah that family was dicks.

Then later on the homeless man came around again to get his stuff, and the woman at the table said, “Hey look, we just want to set our boundaries,”…

UGH…what what what? i don’t know, i just felt like that whole table of people are super self important, jeezzzz that story wasn’t entertaining?

i think it’s one of those things that you have to be there for. I’m fairly sure everyone else that over-heard that conversation at the Mcdonalds sides with the post-card man. You just don’t act like a dick from the get go, you act like one if someone else is a dick first.

Then we went and drank our life savings away at Suika

One thing that I realized beside the fact that there are more and more izakayas in vancouver is that they are becoming better and better produced. Instead of independently owned bars and eateries, they are owned by a large company of some sort that oversees the production of many. They all seem charming and unique in their own way when they are owned and produced by a company. I am not complaining, it’s just something that I noticed.

Anyways, it was our first time going to Suika, and it wasn’t nearly as busy since we showed up at 9…make that 930. Lately, I feel exhausted by 10, so getting to the main event AT 9 something makes me feel extremely old. I know that people don’t START clubbing until like 10 or 11. Like how what who what where when?

We started slow, but eventually a lot of appetizers and dimmed lighting led us to something called PARTY SIZE SAKE.

which is a 1.8 L of sake that doesn’t taste good. I think the only reason we ordered it was because we were drunk and the mere size of the bottle was interesting.

I left around 1 am and they kept at it, I don’t know what happened after but I’m sure they continued to have fun without me. My drinking bill lately has been too big and too bloated. I owe everyone money and been having too much fun.

Here’s a promise that I’m making to myself.

I’ll have a (self published electronic) short story collection out by December 31st.

It’ll be well edited and well written, I sort of promise. A promise to myself anyway

btw who wants to do my cover design?