parties rage on without you there

I have absolutely nothing to do on New Year's Eve, you know. The two people who would normally invite me to things are heading out of town (Both? At once? Bad timing, thanks) and I am left with the one who isn't "into" New Year's Eve. (I don't get that. Any excuse to go out and be drunk, I say -- and given that the whole St. Patrick's Day thing is wildly offensive to me, I only have the one.)

It is depressing. Basically, I think NYE is your popularity yardstick. Though I might not want to do anything, not being asked to do anything is social death. I should be trying to figure out what I am going to wear of the horrible items I own, how I am going to go out if this would-be cold comes through, which of the none-too-appealing journeys to other neighborhoods I have to make. So do I have a bunch of loser friends who are doing nothing also, or have I become the kind of person that you only invite to your birthday, out of duty? Hmm??!??!

Ugh. Don't even tell me. I'm not very into this, thanks.