May week day 1
Jun. 15th, 2008 12:32 amMay week days #-1 and #0
I only had two days between returning from Croatia and may week, as I took friday and next week off work. But they were pretty positive, which is good!
I'm doing all sorts of things this week, and do not foresee much time for lj in the next few days, and I'll never get round to writing things up later, so I think the diary will be whatever I manage to write as I go along.
CULES
I went to see the light entertainment society shows. It's always obligatory that they have some forced, obvious jokes, but they're normally a really good laugh as well, and I know a wide scattering of people involved in CULES somehow or other.
I particularly liked the characters of the Jack of Hearts, Insy-Winsy Spider, Cat Burglar extraordinaire, and the chirpy sun and machiavellian moon.
Pipnic
Rochvelleth's lovely picnic at King's, with Weebleflip, Edith, Uisgabeatha, Pjc and Ptc, and a number of classicists I didn't know. There was nice chat, interesting food, lots of laughing, and a gigantic bubble device.
Veizla
The veizla (science fiction society dinner) was fun. My favourite memory is entering the pre-dinner reception, and atreic sprinting up, and swinging her round and round. (She is very lovely in that she values people.) But there were lots of people I know, stretching from a scattering of the young geeky society collective people I know from poohsoc and sheila, to old Jomsborg regulars.
So it was quite large, with a fairly good showing of active CUSFS members, and the gentleman, who in fresher's fair '63, first started the society! So it has a known, specific birthday, which is pretty cool.
The challenge to the guests was to recount a pointless act of heroism; notable was "charge of the light-brigade, being hit with cushions", "join-the-dots proof of stoke's theorem", and "shaggy dog story with gloriously atrocious puns on every college name". The food was quite nice. A new Reeve is successfully elected. We went back to the Three Doctor's (aka new relativity) for a veizla aftermath, which was also fun.
I only had two days between returning from Croatia and may week, as I took friday and next week off work. But they were pretty positive, which is good!
I'm doing all sorts of things this week, and do not foresee much time for lj in the next few days, and I'll never get round to writing things up later, so I think the diary will be whatever I manage to write as I go along.
CULES
I went to see the light entertainment society shows. It's always obligatory that they have some forced, obvious jokes, but they're normally a really good laugh as well, and I know a wide scattering of people involved in CULES somehow or other.
I particularly liked the characters of the Jack of Hearts, Insy-Winsy Spider, Cat Burglar extraordinaire, and the chirpy sun and machiavellian moon.
Pipnic
Rochvelleth's lovely picnic at King's, with Weebleflip, Edith, Uisgabeatha, Pjc and Ptc, and a number of classicists I didn't know. There was nice chat, interesting food, lots of laughing, and a gigantic bubble device.
Veizla
The veizla (science fiction society dinner) was fun. My favourite memory is entering the pre-dinner reception, and atreic sprinting up, and swinging her round and round. (She is very lovely in that she values people.) But there were lots of people I know, stretching from a scattering of the young geeky society collective people I know from poohsoc and sheila, to old Jomsborg regulars.
So it was quite large, with a fairly good showing of active CUSFS members, and the gentleman, who in fresher's fair '63, first started the society! So it has a known, specific birthday, which is pretty cool.
The challenge to the guests was to recount a pointless act of heroism; notable was "charge of the light-brigade, being hit with cushions", "join-the-dots proof of stoke's theorem", and "shaggy dog story with gloriously atrocious puns on every college name". The food was quite nice. A new Reeve is successfully elected. We went back to the Three Doctor's (aka new relativity) for a veizla aftermath, which was also fun.