I had quite a bit of fun before The Seminary Student showed up last night. I’m easily distracted in any condition, but when I drink I sometimes go into what K calls my “social butterfly mode”. When I’m like this, I do the least damage to my own reputation, as I flit around becoming best friends with positively everyone I encounter. I don’t stay in a single conversation long enough to get myself into trouble. This is good.
Before I get to that state, though, I tend to enter the territory of The Regrettable Drunktext. At S’s urging, I invited a colleague of ours to join us for a drink. He is a moderately attractive guy who’s a class-A asshat. He thinks very highly of himself. He is married to a stunningly beautiful woman that I met at our company’s Christmas party. He is one of the people that I tend to drunktext for kicks, though I’d been limiting that sort of activity as it relates to coworkers because it nearly always just leads to trouble later on.
Anyway, here’s our brief conversation, transcribed for your enjoyment: