My illustrious roommate rob is in mexico for the holidays, so I've been taking up lots of space here at the house, staying up late playing loud music, trying to keep things clean for his imminent return.

Went downtown to the dog-friendly bar with a friend for some good saturday night people watching. Very much struck by the basic boy-girl asymmetry... the girls get more attention than they'd like and the guys are straining to be noticed.

The conversation turns to, "in the end we're all just as easily abandoned, or abandoning..." A cheery night, as you can see.

Everyone else was making happy-eyes at the dog, who appeared to approve. I'm not sure he was so happy about the cigarette smoke. Sigh.