Walking

[jack]

On sat I joined Becky, Mobbsy[1], and two friends of Becky who work almost directly above me for a walk in Roystonshire[2].

It unfortunately rained for the first hourish, but I got it to clear up, and it was quite wet, but not truly fierce, and I'm glad I didn't back out, though I'm glad I brought a sweatshirt[3]. OTOH, I don't have a *good* jumper, so tend to grab the sweatshirt I got from CUIS, and all four of the others cornered my separately to ask what it was, why it had '#5 Computer Officer' on, if being in CUIS helped my career, etc.

But it was pleasant. It was nostalgic for me because I always used to go walk round heaths and go to shut pubs with mum or dad when I lived at home[4]. Dad taught me chess, and mum taught me maths, and I taught mum C, on such occasions :)

We got to a decent-looking pub, albeit without food, but might go back one day. People were not especially impressed with my flowery shirt.

We got back and I slipped off to a curry house round the corner to meet several old friends from Trinity, which was nice. Again several people conspired to persuade me to run away to the circus and become a quant. The trains were cancelled and J stopped at mine and we stayed up chatting.

[1] "This is Mobbsy, his real name's Andrew."
[2] *ring* / "I'M IN ROYSTON!" / "OH NO HE ISN'T!" / "Well, Roystonshire." / "Mwaa?"
[3] "Do you think he's allowed in the grafton centre in that? It's technically a hoody..."
[4] OK, living at home is technically redundant. You know what I mean :)

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

So, why does it have ‘#5 Computer Officer’ on?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

The CU industrial society organises a lot of events to bring together cambridge students and large london companies, mainly presentations/dinner by companies looking for recruits. Thus they have lots of money. For fresher's fair advertising they bought sweatshirts for the committee to wear on the stall. The executive committee was pres, vice, treasurer, secretary and computer officer in roughly that order. The titles were added to the shirts mainly to add an amusing sports-team-esque feel, and partly because printing individual shirts suggests more professionalism than mass produced ones.