How To Disappear Completely

Canadian Beer Is Better Than Budweiser

...or so they say over here. I think that it's true, but I tend to drink water when I hang out with the graduate students at the local pub. I'm not a teetotaler, just short on funds. I don't know exactly how college students finance their drinking habits, but perhaps they don't support their local used book store quite as generously as I seem to be doing...to each his own source of pleasure, eh? :)

Anyway, my life is immersing back into the university experience, both in terms of classes and "extra-curricular" activities. I got invited to a party scheduled for tonight entitled "CEO or Office Ho." The only criterion governing attendance is that one must show up in costume with a resume. Normally I enjoy dressing up and writing crazy cover letters, but as some people started describing their intended costumes, I became a bit suspicious and eventually looked "Office Ho" up online. Turns out it's a movie. One categorized in the "adult" genre. I am not ready to be an adult. So I'll probably skip out. Which leads me to the question: what do you guys do if you get invited to parties in S----, especially if the party could potentially feature ill-clad, passed-out persons? Do you go as a way of reaching out to students? I feel that they probably would be too drunk to notice if I were there or not, and that there are other ways of demonstrating cameraderie and friendship (and yet that reason seems rather self-centred, too...whom am I to make such grandiose claims of "knowing what's best?") But perhaps the real reason I am staying away is that I am too cowardly to go to a function at which I will have no fun myself and see even less possibility of contributing something worthwhile. I feel so highly inadequate as a witness. But then again, I suppose that's because I forget that I am inadequate (the salvation of these people does not depend upon my doing all the steps correctly). If Paul boasts in his weaknesses, then I suppose I definitely have a lot to brag about these days.

--Taken from an email sent to a friend currently overseas who asked how Canada was...