Postponed

Posted on 2006/03/11 03:47:16 (March 2006).

[Thursday 9th March]
Our managers from the US were over this week. Whilst this normally means lots of work nights out, this week the social events didn't seem to have materialised thus far. Each night my manager had told me maybe we'd go out tomorrow instead. By today I was really in the mood for a drink after work, and when the "official" night out was postponed again, I determined instead to organise one unofficially. So to start with just went for a couple of drinks at the station near my office, with a small group of my colleagues.

As they all live rather far away, they didn't stay out particularly late, so some time after 9 I found myself devoid of drinking companions. I however was by no means done for the evening, so decided to pop over to Ikebukuro to see my friend Watanabe-san in Quercus bar. I think I made a new friend - I got talking to the guy sitting next to me who was an English teacher (but rarely for Japan was actually Japanese). So naturally his English was very good, but I made a big effort nonetheless to speak mostly in Japanese. Had a few very nice malts - including an '82 Port Ellen. I got the very last train back - purely by chance really, I didn't know what time it went but just wandered optimisitcally towards the station when I thought it would be appropriate.

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