And this time I truly intend to stick to that.
Last night I experienced the wonders of a 'digs formal' for the first time. For those of you who do not know, a digs formal is basically a type of party held in the home of a group of students not living in res. It usually involves a lot of alcohol, some interesting games, and the unwritten rule that you have to score your date.
In this particular case, each of the members of the digs had to arrange a date for one of the others. It so happened that I have been hooking up with one of the guys in this digs (let's call him M) and the one who had to find a date for M (who we shall call T) is my sister's ex-boyfriend. Naturally this made it easy for T to decide to invite me as M's date.
Being a naturally shy person, I was absolutely terrified at the prospect of spending an evening in the company of 25 people I didn't know. In the end it turned out that I knew more of them than I had expected, and with the levels of drunken-ness going on, it didn't really matter anyway. The evening started with a boatrace, a 'sober lunge' (where one has to hook up with their date) and a lot of vodka-based punch. Other games included a version of pass-the-parcel where each layer of the parcel contained an instruction for the couple to perform. My date and I had to remove 2 items of clothing before lunging, while another couple had to perform an interesting scenario involving a broomstick. All in all, an interesting night.
Unfortunately I made the fatal mistake of drinking far too much punch, and have since learned my lesson. I was forced to skip all my lectures when I realised that I couldn't get out of bed without throwing up. I have truly never been this hungover before, and I hope never to be again. It is now 1pm, and I have only just managed to keep down a mouthful of water and a cracker. Wait, half a cracker. The other half is still waiting for me.
On this basis, I am choosing to adopt a mantra that a friend of mine came up with towards the end of the year, whose wisdom I have not truly comprehended until now:
"Drinking is bad for you. Alcohol is poison."
Truer words have never been spoken.
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