  what to do on a thursday night? that was the pressing question of last night.... as is becoming the routine it seems, i had to work yesterday night - meaning hurrying back to the darkside (dartmouth) in the afternoon and lending my parents a hand. one employee that would greatly alleviate the work for my parents is out injured for a month so... i am not grumbling too much for having to work. actually i am. i had all the means to be a good waitress and all else but, you see, my parents can only cook one thing at a time and things came out slowly.
man, i can get so pissed off when working because of the people i have to deal with and i get into arguments with my parents because i don't like getting stressed out and i was last night! so, i went out on a thursday night for the first time in ages.... met up with sm at thirsty duck that is a drinking hole by my standards.
been there for nachos once before. it was quiet (except for the band playing: universal language or some other thing like that) because the rush of kids were at yfm - yes, and i do mean kids because i know 16-years-old sneaking in. we then went to pitchman's pub after passing by argyle that was empty on the top level at 11 p.m. pitchman's, i have been told, is the new j.j.'s a cruddy bar that so fortunately shut down when its location was bought by the art college to turn it into a residence last summer. sleazy bar (and i'm a bad one for identifying sleaze, i.e., tolerating) with popular music and notorious for its attraction of underage drunk girls and underage drunk guys. it was so incomprehensibly popular you'd think the floor would break before it closed. it truly is the new j.j.'s and one of our friends started getting a bad feeling soon after we paid $5 cover.
(rip-off! even the cashier conceded so. ) so he left and sm and i waded through the waves of drunken little people - girls in the same franchise "clubbing" tops and guys who are so young and loud! we found the quietest place in the bar - a room quite insulated from the music so you just hear thuds as if a car blasting music with a big subwoofer / amp / whatever.
i really wonder what attracted the horders to pitchman's (and when) and why / how / when the argyle faded as the place to be on thursday nights. i attribute it to the people of hali having a considerable lack of taste and great taste only for cheap drinks and eww-places. we went to argyle after finishing our drinks which was the original destination because some mba-guy was celebrating his birthday. i hadn't before seen the "aqua lounge" that was their formerly packed and sweaty lower-level dancing lounge. it was comfortingly non-packed (could have used some more people) and certainly delightfully more mature filled with only mba people even if they aren't necessarily disinclined to drink. i like the renovation to the argyle bar - swanky, shiny mahogany (well, in the dim light) and the "aqua" lounge is lava-lamp fluid but in a more refreshingly water-theme.
(there's the projection of water running over the floor and seats and floor-to-ceiling billowing black curtains creating divides between seating eat areas. ) for a thursday night, we had the other options of going to copa that is thursday hip-hop and the new party house . i'm certain that despite my angst of p.h., it would be more welcoming site than the crowd at pitchman's. we could have gone to velvet olive that is another "classy" place. thursdays are popular and "rock n roll" night or something. it's do difficult to please everyone at once! i think it turned my stomach the most to see people treating a thursday night (what about school on friday?? ) like a clubbing night, getting drunk, and "dressing up. " kids will be kids, sigh, and please keep them away from me! urlLink read more.... 
