Tomorrow is Friday and that makes this boy happy. Been a rather uneventful week, but when all is said and done I will be more than happy to walk out of school tomorrow being able to look forward to the weekend. No big plans as of yet, some of my friends are going into Osaka to celebrate a birthday tomorrow night, but as they are planning on staying out all night I will not be joining them.

Definitely have come to the slow realization that staying sober until 9AM makes for a very long night. Clubbing just doesn't hold the drunken allure it used to with my new found sobriety, so I am in the rather annoying process of trying to find new things to do on weekend nights. Unfortunately this means that the majority of the time I part ways with my friends once they go off to a club and usually end up heading home earlier than I used to. I just don't enjoy myself at clubs as I am too self conscious to dance sober and having Ayuko takes away the whole trying to fool girls into talking to me part as well. Alcohol and women were the main reasons I went to clubs and with those two things out of the equation I am left with very neutral feelings towards them.

While some may argue that this stage of socialization only really occurs in my general age group I would have to disagree. I feel that at any stage in life one is left searching for new and inspiring things to occupy themselves with in their free time and that alcohol often plays a role in loosening social boundaries. Not that I feel there is anything inherently wrong with that, I just don't partake in that part of it anymore. I really am just an old stick in the mud now :P