Livin' La Vida Loner

Okay, the title of this post is possibly the cheesiest thing ever, but since I'm not convinced that anyone actually reads my blog, I'm going with it.

I'm currently in Edinburgh and it's nearing 11:00pm. Since leaving my friend Lucy's earlier this afternoon I have checked into my hostel in Edinburgh, wandered around town, had two hot chocolates by myself at Starbucks (on separate occasions), and seen a movie by myself. Basically, I've been trying to kill time until it's what I consider to be an appropriate time to go back to my hostel and go to sleep. I know that Melissa and Jillian may both be scandalized, but I'm not a big fan of hostelling by myself. Although I always find myself in conversations with strangers on buses, trains, airplanes, etc., I'm not good at finding friends in hostels. I don't know why, but I find it intimidating when I don't have other friends with me - I guess I feel like I'm imposing my company on them. To be honest, I probably should have joined the hostel's pub crawl this evening, but being a hermit, I avoided it. Tomorrow I may try to do better, but if not, this internet cafe is open until 11:00pm and I can just come here again. I'd better lay off the Starbucks, though. There's no way that those giant mugs of chocolatey goodness topped off with whipped cream aren't clogging my arteries.

Grah, I've just been given a 10-minute warning, so I need to sign off. I guess I'll have to write more tomorrow. Yay, I'm just glad that I've managed to find things to do till 11:0pm. Fingers crossed that there are no bed bugs at this place tonight...