Oh, Daniel. I am sorry you feel that way. I read your post earlier and my heart went out to you.
I told Kate, on our drive back down to Chicago, that my absolute favorite thing about Buffistas is how different we all are, and that there is such an absence of judgment about our shapes and sizes and colors and drink-tolerance-levels and philosophies and fashion and sexuality, etc.
Okay, actually we're pretty judgmental about drink tolerance, I admit.
But really? It was the prom I wished I always had: where you really do want to hug and kiss everyone in the room. And so you do!!
I was pretty disappointed by what my own drink tolerance reset to. For years I would only occasionally drink a couple glasses of wine with dinner, or the odd pint of Guinness with friends, yet when F2F rolled around I was able to slam back the bourbons and sazeracs like they were soda. But 18 months with only 2 glasses of wine apparently killed off the inner Irishman that had been bravely holding on through my moderate proofage years. Saturday I got buzzed to the point of slight tipsyness after three drinks, and the first two were only about as strong as margaritas.
I was having too much fun to drink! Which is cool, because when I was younger it was always the other way around. I just kinda forgot to on Saturday until afterward. And after Ginger made me get that outrageously expensive and sinfully delicious bourbon. Then I wanted more, but I had to drive, so I behaved.
I have separated my pics on flickr to have the HOTR pics open to the public, while keeping my prom pics friends locked
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I'm a learnin'
Golly, Windsparrow is SO pretty!!!!
...but I guess you already knew that.
Well, I got my pics in downloadable form (thanks to Walgreens and CDs--damn WindowsME not be compatible with my Canon!), so iffen y'all wanna look, check it out!
==kisses political life goodbye==
Okay, actually we're pretty judgmental about drink tolerance, I admit.
I'm not sure this is what you meant, but FWIW nobody made me feel uncomfortable about not drinking.
That's good to hear because I was starting to feel rather happy that I couldn't afford to go to f2f.