Event - Dinner Party
Aug. 15th, 2004 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackIn the end we had: Nick, Tom, Alison and Martin, Justin, Tim+Rachel and Jennie+Rich, and George, who I am about to share a house with.
It went very well. Everyone got on well with some people, though there were certain divisions at various points (which is sadder: coporate finance or startrek?). I was worried there wouldn't be
enough food, but there was plenty. I did a pasta bake and potato wedges with readymade topping, and readymade biryani, and salads and garlic bread, etc, from sainsbury's. Tom brought dip & pittas. Alison brought pudding. I could have fed a few more people. With another side dish I could probably feed 20! So my fears of inviting too many people are over bar the trouble of spending all day cooking.
We ended up playing charades of all things. Which was funny. I think my favorites moments were all comments I made. Tom was miming "twice" but going [two] and then [make bigger gesture] and no-one could get it (we tried words starting with the syllable 'too', and words meaning two, but never quite got there) and then I said "three" :) Also, when I was miming "Garfield" for the second syllable I did "mathmos" by pointing at me, tom, alison, martin; and then "ring" by making a ring wiht my fingers; and then "field" by "make bigger" since in maths, a field is an extension of a ring. Alison got it :)
It's almost becoming a regular thing with me! Next time I'll try to vary the main dish, since the pasta bake has come out a few times now, being very convenient for dinner parties. Should it be permanently retired, or brought back in a new incarnation (this one had pesto in, which worked very well, but many different seasonings are possible: garlic? chilli? tomatoes? potatoes? less topping? more topping? a mid-layer of topping?). How about the potatoes and rice - ok? Any other suggestions?
Anyone want to be invited to the next one, who wasn't, or couldn't come, this time?
It went very well. Everyone got on well with some people, though there were certain divisions at various points (which is sadder: coporate finance or startrek?). I was worried there wouldn't be
enough food, but there was plenty. I did a pasta bake and potato wedges with readymade topping, and readymade biryani, and salads and garlic bread, etc, from sainsbury's. Tom brought dip & pittas. Alison brought pudding. I could have fed a few more people. With another side dish I could probably feed 20! So my fears of inviting too many people are over bar the trouble of spending all day cooking.
We ended up playing charades of all things. Which was funny. I think my favorites moments were all comments I made. Tom was miming "twice" but going [two] and then [make bigger gesture] and no-one could get it (we tried words starting with the syllable 'too', and words meaning two, but never quite got there) and then I said "three" :) Also, when I was miming "Garfield" for the second syllable I did "mathmos" by pointing at me, tom, alison, martin; and then "ring" by making a ring wiht my fingers; and then "field" by "make bigger" since in maths, a field is an extension of a ring. Alison got it :)
It's almost becoming a regular thing with me! Next time I'll try to vary the main dish, since the pasta bake has come out a few times now, being very convenient for dinner parties. Should it be permanently retired, or brought back in a new incarnation (this one had pesto in, which worked very well, but many different seasonings are possible: garlic? chilli? tomatoes? potatoes? less topping? more topping? a mid-layer of topping?). How about the potatoes and rice - ok? Any other suggestions?
Anyone want to be invited to the next one, who wasn't, or couldn't come, this time?
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Date: 2004-08-15 09:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-15 09:15 am (UTC)Did you scare them? Remember, they're not as mundane as you might think: many are equally insane, but hide it better; stealth insanity can almost be worse. And didn't they retaliate effectively with corporate finance? :)
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Date: 2004-08-15 01:00 pm (UTC)You make a compelling point, though: they can obviously take care of themselves, so I shouldn't worry about scaring them.
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Date: 2004-08-15 01:15 pm (UTC)You probably know stealthily insane in poohsoc. Some people who aren't obviously insane, so have so much more effect when they hit you with it when you aren't expecting it...