Wherein I wish I could grow a pair

[fredericks]

Someone I consider a close friend is having her birthday celebration tomorrow. I don't usually do parties, but she's one of the folks for whom I'd make an exception. When she first mentioned her usual B-Day happenings it involved having folks come by her apartment for an informal pot-luck style thing. Which, still awkward and hard for me to deal with, but manageable. Now it seems like she's decided to have a party at a bar down in Soho. A place that will require some amount of dressing up. And will most likely have loud music and drunken pretty people. And I really like this woman, but I don't think I'm up to that right now.