The Round

Is it sensible to keep some pot noodles at work? I do end up staying at work sometimes, and it's better to have something reasonably like food, rather than having some crisps.

But for the first time, I went along to the Round. It was fun. I hadn't realised how much I'd missed having some physical musical activity. I did all the dances ok, and sensibly considered mods to two dances.

I'm still a bit shy at meeting large crowds of people I don't know, but Sally and Susan and Matthew and Rachel were lovely as always, and lots of organised girls and bearded or exuberent men I recognised from ceilidhs.

Havelock and Xform

Stupid questions, but where google and wikipedia fail me, my friends generally know.

1. "Xform" as an abbreviation of "transform". That's standard, isn't it? But where does that come from? I'm suddenly unsure. Is that just 'x' being 'an arbitrary operation'?

ETA: Thanks to three people who almost instantly pointed out that X works for 'trans', in the sense 'cross'.

2. "Havelock". I'm really only familiar with it as in "Vetinari", but I have the feeling it's a reference to something or other. There's a few other Havelocks on wikipedia, but nothing that made sense to me.