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Jan. 2nd, 2008 12:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI've had a great few days recently. I'll try to catch up on blogging everything, back to my christmas party, but a few highlights.
* I had a lovely time visiting my parents and extended family. Christmas dinner may have become more of a habit, but it is nice, and I feel content afterward. And we had a very nice visit everywhere else, talking to mum about maths, and grandfather about science fiction, and dad about cards.
* I went to Livredor's party at the Pembury tavern (Thanks timeplease!) which was very fun: a lot of people I know and it was nice to see (pseudomonas, mole, thursday), a lot of people I'd met once or twice but was very glad to run into again (hairyears, deborah, livredor) and a lot of people I'd met at most once between them, but was glad to see (hold on, I remember real names but I won't post those on livejournal just in case, I'll check aliases on livredor's post)
* I had some time relaxing here, making innovations in house-stuff-organisation, and so on.
* I went to the Relativity new year party. I'd considered party hopping, but felt much more like relaxing somewhere comfortable for eight hours... It was very fun, packed to the gills with nice and cuddly people and insane conversations. Unfortunately, most of it was untranscribable. Probably the best comment was Mark, 00:04, "So far, so good."
I learnt the words to Auld Lang Syne (well, the first verse and chorus) which makes new year much more satisfying. Last year someone brought print outs, but I never actually knew the words. It is a very rousing song. Especially when you're in a topologically circular house and can form a ring all the way round it.
Naath, Sphyg, and Clare all had fabulous outfits. I failed to kiss a statistically meaningful sample of people with respect to beard, but noticed a very disturbing trend amongst people's opinions, the correlation seems almost 100% women in favour, men against, and metrosexuals making some kind of comment-moderation joke. There will not be any livejournal poll, I don't think I want that much more fuss.
I got home about 4. I also have comments on Dinnerladies, I Am Legend, The Prestige, and the cineworld centre's gigantic snowman, but they can be in a separate post.
* I had a lovely time visiting my parents and extended family. Christmas dinner may have become more of a habit, but it is nice, and I feel content afterward. And we had a very nice visit everywhere else, talking to mum about maths, and grandfather about science fiction, and dad about cards.
* I went to Livredor's party at the Pembury tavern (Thanks timeplease!) which was very fun: a lot of people I know and it was nice to see (pseudomonas, mole, thursday), a lot of people I'd met once or twice but was very glad to run into again (hairyears, deborah, livredor) and a lot of people I'd met at most once between them, but was glad to see (hold on, I remember real names but I won't post those on livejournal just in case, I'll check aliases on livredor's post)
* I had some time relaxing here, making innovations in house-stuff-organisation, and so on.
* I went to the Relativity new year party. I'd considered party hopping, but felt much more like relaxing somewhere comfortable for eight hours... It was very fun, packed to the gills with nice and cuddly people and insane conversations. Unfortunately, most of it was untranscribable. Probably the best comment was Mark, 00:04, "So far, so good."
I learnt the words to Auld Lang Syne (well, the first verse and chorus) which makes new year much more satisfying. Last year someone brought print outs, but I never actually knew the words. It is a very rousing song. Especially when you're in a topologically circular house and can form a ring all the way round it.
Naath, Sphyg, and Clare all had fabulous outfits. I failed to kiss a statistically meaningful sample of people with respect to beard, but noticed a very disturbing trend amongst people's opinions, the correlation seems almost 100% women in favour, men against, and metrosexuals making some kind of comment-moderation joke. There will not be any livejournal poll, I don't think I want that much more fuss.
I got home about 4. I also have comments on Dinnerladies, I Am Legend, The Prestige, and the cineworld centre's gigantic snowman, but they can be in a separate post.
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Date: 2008-01-03 02:24 pm (UTC)*Parser crash* "Sakes" mistakenly used in the lyrics? Where?
Not in "syne"? I mean, obviously I never knew the lines other than "auld lang syne", but that's half of it, you'd have to know those, wouldn't you?
It's funny, *now* I can remember it, apparently that final singing at midnight did it in. However, I can only remember the words with the tune, and only remember the tune at an appropriately ponderous speed, so it takes me about a minute to remember any line :)
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Date: 2008-01-03 02:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-03 02:47 pm (UTC)Then in reverse, I still can't parse it terribly well, it doesn't make particularly more sense even if you change it :) That sounds like it could be a variant? Though of course all singing the same thing, that scans, is preferable :)
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Date: 2008-01-03 02:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-03 02:54 pm (UTC)etymological intuitionextends even to scottish poetry, waddyaknow!