My weekend, as sitcom
Sep. 21st, 2005 07:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI've often proposed that my life is a sitcom. I'd prefer to think of it more like a drama with elements of humour, tragedy, romance, action, etc, but it's generally driven home most when it's being like a sitcom.
I think this weekend was a bumper christmas episode because so much happened, and so much of it was interesting.
There was lunch/coffee with my lovely college daughter bachlover, now all grown up and doing a PhD, and another friend, and an old friend of hers and mine; which was always a good start to a sitcom, because almost all of us had different relationships with all of the others.
The camera was in the coffee shop behind us so could focus effortlessly from conversation to conversation. First two of us went for hot chocolates, leaving to focus on the minor characters for a moment. (No offense. They have their own, more exciting, sitcoms.)
Then the girls fell into a convenient discussion about fluid PhDs, allowing them to blur out of shot and friend and me to be concentrated on while we caught up on friend's life.
Just as this was petering out, we shift seamlessly to two women walking down the other side of the street, and friend and I spontaneously run across and hug them, providing unending amusement to our friends. They are the mother and sister of another old friend of both. They go to buy coffee, and swap places with the other girls. Their other halves arrive, and make joking comments that we were better with the companions we had before.
Mid afternoon we arrange to have a dinner party, and the theme music plays. ("Badger badger badger..." :))
The next episode, covering the evening, will air shortly, after the watershed :)
I think this weekend was a bumper christmas episode because so much happened, and so much of it was interesting.
There was lunch/coffee with my lovely college daughter bachlover, now all grown up and doing a PhD, and another friend, and an old friend of hers and mine; which was always a good start to a sitcom, because almost all of us had different relationships with all of the others.
The camera was in the coffee shop behind us so could focus effortlessly from conversation to conversation. First two of us went for hot chocolates, leaving to focus on the minor characters for a moment. (No offense. They have their own, more exciting, sitcoms.)
Then the girls fell into a convenient discussion about fluid PhDs, allowing them to blur out of shot and friend and me to be concentrated on while we caught up on friend's life.
Just as this was petering out, we shift seamlessly to two women walking down the other side of the street, and friend and I spontaneously run across and hug them, providing unending amusement to our friends. They are the mother and sister of another old friend of both. They go to buy coffee, and swap places with the other girls. Their other halves arrive, and make joking comments that we were better with the companions we had before.
Mid afternoon we arrange to have a dinner party, and the theme music plays. ("Badger badger badger..." :))
The next episode, covering the evening, will air shortly, after the watershed :)
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