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I go out drinking a lot. Pretty much every nite but Tuesday, which I used to reserve for Buffy (sniff), but now gladly cede to America's Next Top Model. Lately I've noticed that some people become alarmed when they find out how often I go out. In my defense, I'd like to say that there is absolutely no cause for alarm & actually, I'm on top of that shit, thank you.
For one thing, it's not as if I get all dressed up to go out at nite. I get all dressed up pretty much every day of my life. You'll never catch me in sweats, not even on the bleakest, most hungover morning, unless the sweats are part of my look.
Nor do I go to chi chi places with horrible thumping dance music to pay fancy pants prices for dayglo martinis. On an average evening, the scuzzier the dive, the happier I am. & generally I like to go to the same places over & over.
In fact, I like to get really, really comfortable with a bar, to the point where not only does everybody know my name, but I'm developing an incestuous love-hate relationship with the old place, where I can disparage it & call it names, but I'll defend it to its dying day & secretly I'm starting to feel a bit off if I'm drinking any place else.
Rather like my relationship with New York City really.
As for the quantity of alcohol I consume... haven't you heard? It's good for you.
I'm a barfly I guess, your average garden-variety barfly.