This is How We Do It

1. Go out for a buddies birthday

2. Dive Diner where waitress insists that the Annex is a scary, dangerous place

3. Explain what dangerous actually means to someone from philadelphia and give a verbal tour of every dangerous neighboorhood you remember,

4. Arrive an Annex, which is actually a very nice, mostly empty, dive bar, and even though you are the only white people there, you don't feel like the only white people there, because you are in seattle and not north philly

5.  spend a lot of time flirting with the one girl in your group, even though you kind of know she's not interested.

6.  Ask for a shot of rum 151.  Receive double shot of rum 151 from ironically generous bartender.  Earn respect from peers.  Narrowly avoid throwing up.  Decide that you need to do this every time you go out.

7. Bus ride.  Another bar.  Watch a girl just outside the bar stop to put heels on.  Exchange smiles.


8.  Come home after a really long walk in the cold that probably gave you pneumonia, feeling like crap.  Think about how you came home alone while in the elevator.  Pour bland vegetable broth into bowl, and then add baby carrots.  Microwave for 60 seconds.

9.  Write in blog, listen to some song that was on in the dive bar.