tspencer227 | An Interesting Revelation

So here we are, back on land...for a little while. The next few days are going to be packed pretty tight with preparations to get ready to go back out to sea. Already, I've spent all day running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to get things done. Luckily, my concert tickets came ok- Dave Matthews on the 25th, and Oasis on the 14th of September. Now, all I have to do is find somebody to go with.

So tonight most of the department got together and went out to Typhoon Saloon for 80's night to celebrate the 21st birthdays of a couple of our girls. Pretty much all the non- married guys in the department (and a few who are married ended up there, but with the crowd that's always there on a Wednesday night, finding anybody was next to impossible. I went, along with a few others, to help them celebrate.

I stayed barely an hour before I bailed out and came home.

I came to the conclusion tonight that I'm done with the bar/ club scene here; seeing the same faces every time we go out, getting shot down time and again by the same kinds of good-looking but shallow girls every night. I'm done with it. Granted, the only thing that's really kept me going when we hit up the clubs has been hanging out with my friends- watching Scott (the Gorgeous One) get drunk and somehow incoherently mumble enough at a girl to go home with him, watching Matt trying to dance, or watch girls get in line to try and pick up Mike. I realized tonight, as I was watching a couple of my much more game- minded friends at work, that I can't live vicariously through my friends like all of this- yes, I enjoy hanging out with them, but I just don't fit in with that scene out here. It's not me anymore.

Time to find my niche, I think.