CTS squash

[jack]

Last night was the tolkien squash. We picked up food and stuff from sainsbury's and successfully negotiated with trinity porters for the key.

I may have been slightly tense at this point (sorry). I think it's being responsible for something else, when I'm primarily concentrating on work.

I returned to Great Gate to form a walking party, with Tim and Naath -- who it was nice to see again -- but the freshers managed to totally elude us. I genuinely have no idea how they managed this: they claim to have been outside at the same time we were, but we were constantly looking for *any* lone/small group of people waiting, and there weren't any.

But once the squash started it seemed to go well. It was jolly. I chatted to a lot of old friends, was insulted a bit, and met freshers. Quite a lot turned up, and several joined. Matthew assures us that next year we'll start having second-generation CTS people in cambridge.

We had freshers of the several stripes we hoped for, from obscure-elvish-names to obscure-elvish-slash, and despite a few awkward moments, no-one seemed very scared. There did seem to be a tendancy to divide entirely by sex (or possibly by slash-ness).

There were a few short speaches introducing the committee, but theses were entirely impromptu. Formal speeches in trinity rooms require a variety of permissions to ensure freedom of speech, in a sensible-but-apparently-ironic way.

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, not at all. Any real miff would have been said so, not olluded to obliquiely, honest.

Fibbed what? You mean about it going to be boring? I meant "doesn't have the faded dragon ivy poster thing in the background, sorry".

"lovely termcard" <-- Sugar (or possibly sarcasm) is good :)

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you said it was boring, but it wasn't, it was shiny with a nice pretty icon and nice fonts and good layout and good descriptive text and stuff.

And I'm not and wasn't being sarcastic! So ner ;-P

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

LOL. I didn't think you were, but same difference :)

Well, ok, not very boring, I guess I need more expressive smilies after that... The point is that I made it in half an hour (by c&p the title and elvish from the flier and the text from Naath's website) and I wanted to clarify that.

(Of course, I have different ideas of 'acceptable' to other people. I remember producing publications for the industrial society, and just can't produce something with pixel-alignment errors and the like, and being amazed other people couldn't see this, and I still don't know which of us was right.)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Reading that, I seem to be defensive -- I seem to place more importance on my flier-evaluation than my flier-creation. I have no idea why this is, I just thought it was interesting :)

[mair_in_grenderich]

you mean it's important people know what you think, even if they don't like your fliers?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I meant, I seem to be more embarassed by admitting ignorance than other faults, so contrary to expectation I seem to have been more defensive about claiming my statement was accurate, than about claiming my fliers were good. I know this is odd.

[mair_in_grenderich]

ooh, look over there, there's a strange man!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

?

[mair_in_grenderich]

you said it ):