Having my friends finish midterms were great. Sarging with them was even better. The three of us hit up a popular bar spot after street warming for a bit. I was in a good state of mind but I can't say the same for my friends. A lot of the early bar moments were set for bar wandering before we finally nested ourselves at a table. Here we cycles ourselves through approaches by taking turns.

I really didn't transition my approaches here well. I was using an extremely cheesy canned opener and I moved the conversation onto asking what the worst cheesy opener my targets have seen. As you can imagine, it didn't move much past here, though the initial opener did give produce some good laughter.

We exhausted our women on the bottom floor and so we flooded the other ones above. I procrastinated a little here and there by asking for water at various bar stops instead of approaching. My approaches on here for the most part were just the dull routine I was running.

Our greatest moment, though? My two friends opened a 7 or 8 mixed set. They started with the women. I flew in later and opened one of the ladies hanging in the back. Suddenly, it was someone's birthday and I was lifting them in a great big hug. I called it a celebrity hug. She loved it and I gave her another. When I put her down the second time, I clawed her and asked for her number. She had a boyfriend and I tried to bounce it but no luck.

Thankfully her other friend approached me here. She told me the initial girl wasn't from this city. I gave the girl who I was now talking to a "you know what this means" look and introduced myself, but her group pulled her back in.

This is where I noticed something. The set of people we opened were slowly sifting away from us and just watching, kinda like an hourglass. We did a few more rounds in the bar before leaving but on these next few rounds, I noticed people were mentioning that they saw us a few times as we walked by. This kinda irked me a lil because I knew then that we were in the bar for too long.

All in all, it was a good night. I got out, did some approaches, and was 5 away from my quota of 20 approaches for the night. I'm honestly considering using some routines, though. It felt like after some time of talking to women face to face, they tried to brush me off by directing me elsewhere. I'm not sure why this is. I'm still a little worried on whether I should work with routines or not though.