alternative to what?

a vocabulary lesson for your early 20s.

guiltresolveanxiety - the feeling and experience of leaving a fun situation in medias res, likely to go home and watch Netflix streaming.  You must always apologize profusely and self-deprecatingly use any of the following words: grandma, tired, work early tomorrow, lame. Later accompanied by the twin feelings of joy at a night exactly how you want it and quiet worry that somewhere, someone is having more fun without you.

apologookies - the cookies you bring your neighbors when your partyguests have Too Much Party and vom everywhere. Try these.

macguffin - initially defined as a vital Hitchcockian object that drives the plot of the work of fiction, whose actual use has nothing to do with the ultimate outcome of the story and is therefore interchangeable (“oh shit, we have to go get that One Ring/Ark of the Covenant/suitcase full of cocaine/Mona Lisa before that other guy does!”). Yet this term aptly describes a wholesome and entirely plausible weekend activity you might engage in (e.g. going to the lake!) that you fabricate solely to answer your coworkers’ “what are you doing this weekend?” question from Wednesday onward, only because you suspect that “interneting and going to bars. like every weekend.” just won’t cut it.