CTS squash
Oct. 12th, 2005 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackLast 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.
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.
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Date: 2005-10-12 05:32 pm (UTC)Well, it wasn't *really*. I think it was something sonic was saying, and i didn't hear, and you were btoh laughing... ring any bells?
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Date: 2005-10-13 06:44 pm (UTC)PS. Is Saturday happening? Does Trinity have a room? As I think more than 10 people may show up and if they do they'll have to suspend themselves from the ceiling or stand in my lavender bushes and watch through the window.
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Date: 2005-10-13 07:03 pm (UTC)[1] Gah! Why do some words thrust[1] themselves to prominence on a given day??