Back at Work and Out for Beer

Posted on 2007/09/13 23:42:21 (September 2007).

[Monday 10th September]
Was back at work today after my week off. I had been a little apprehensive about it after a week without checking my mail etc, but I suppose in the end it wasn't so bad.

In the evening, in a rare and unexpected turn of events, one of the guys on my team asked me if I'd like to go for a beer. He'd been invited to go along to a night out organised by another department to say thanks for some help with recruitment, or something like that, and apparently I was welcome to tag along too.

Even though I explained very clearly at the start of the evening that I hadn't actually helped with the recent recruitment drive for that department, and was just tagging along to keep my team-mate company, somewhat regardless I was plied with free drinks all night, which I found very difficult indeed to decline, but felt somewhat guilty about.

So it was great to get out for the evening, and meet some new people - or at least get to know people I already vaguely knew a bit better. However, I hadn't really foreseen it would be a full evening's session - I'd assumed it was literally just a quick drink or two - so had skipped dinner, which is always a mistake in this sort of situation. I ended up really fairly drunk, if I'm honest, and I suspect towards the end I was probably talking rather a lot of crap to these colleagues I - as yet - don't really know so well.

On leaving the pub I had the proverbial "bag of chips on the way home", and then proceeded to feel rather disgusted at myself for my evening's diet. Beer, chips and nothing else. A terrible way to go on!

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