To be fair, I'm almost doing exactly the same thing, only without the wine gums. I do have some wine gums in my desk drawer however. I'm not always comfortable with lots of people, so I'm just hanging around up here for now until it's time for movies and alcohol. I'm too lazy and unsociable for good self-deprecating humour right now though.
I would say that feeling under pressure to go out would be a bad thing. As long as the guy is keeping in regular contact with the people he lives with and doesn't try to actively ignore them, I can understand really. I avoid people when I'm already drunk at the moment, because I tend to get a bit emotional so to speak, but the rest of the time... blancing is healthy I think. I've been out with the lovely people here a few times, and now's when I'm the nervous nerd I am at heart. Situation might be similar? I don't know.
Everyone: enjoy yourself however anyway :)