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During the ride home last night I didn’t feel like I was too impaired from alcohol to drive, but my friend’s real-time analysis of how I was driving would say otherwise: “You’re bouncing around the lanes like a ping-pong ball.”

I thought he was overreacting a little. We decided to call some mutual friends on the ride home and while I was dialing one of the numbers I inadvertently veered into the next lane that was being used by a tractor trailer. The truck driver honked his horn at me for a solid 10 seconds. I thought it was funny, but I could tell my friend didn’t like it.

When the person we were calling answered the phone I was still laughing and I told him about our near-death experience. He was like “Why didn’t you just give the phone to Scott?”

Not one of us said a word in response. We all telepathically agreed that this seemingly obvious idea would have made more sense.

I was still the only one who found any humor in the situation.

Last week I mentioned I would not drink anymore unless it was associated with a social event. I had two social events so far this week where drinks were involved. I did great. I drank an appropriate amount and took control over my urge to binge drink.

I wasn’t really in a good frame of mind this week and it wasn’t a great week for social events or drinks. I felt agitated all week. I think the drinking may have unearthed this feeling a little bit more. Overall I feel I did good from a social standpoint considering my circumstances. I just feel like I may have emitted an energy that wasn’t as pleasant as I would like.

Last night’s drinking event was a company Christmas party. It was for a certain division of salary people that my friend works with, which just happens to be at the same company as my new job. So it was the company I work for just a different division. He invited me to tag along so we could car pool back to South Jersey afterwards. There was a very pretty extroverted girl who went out of her way to introduce herself to me. Her positive energy was very attractive and I talked with her for a little bit.

Her eyes were big and dark and with the light inside the bar her pupils seemed to blend right in with her eye color. It was so easy not to break eye contact with her. I never submitted once to breaking eye contact. Surprisingly she easily submitted to my eye contact multiple times. I ended the conversation abruptly by saying “I’m sure I’ll see you around in the plant.” If it wasn’t a work-related event I would have pursued a longer conversation, but I’m new and I didn’t know anyone at the get together or what their rank was in the company.

Last updated December 07, 2019