My weekend
Mar. 7th, 2005 03:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackFriday: satanicsocks's birthday. Bangkok city is great. It was nice to see people again, especially Ashliegh and Mark who I haven't seen for *ages*. Filecoreinuse tortured satanicsocks all night by not telling her what he had to give to me (one of the cables pete didn't need and I said I might as well use).
Friday: general dancing. I'm getting in shape for the ball, sort of. I just got there for the last twenty minutes, but there were some people I remembered from when I used to go, including some I thought had quit dancing, or cambridge, or both.
Sat: shopping. I tried to get into town in time to buy a bike, but only had time for a quick look. But at least I've got a benchmark of what's available.
Sat: poohsoc. TCS *did* send a reporter to spy on us. The review was quite complimentary (I could see it potentially attracting people, which is good), but we're very uncomfortable with the 'spying' method of research. On the other hand, exactly how else are they supposed to do it? Surely going along as a new member is the only way to get a feel of what it'd like to be a new member, though you have to take into account that what *you* might not like, someone else *might*.
Sat: Tim's. Justin couldn't make it, which gave Tim and me1 a chance to catch up on the conversations which we have in common but Justin doesn't, and had a pleasant quiet evening making fun of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. (Q: what is the next prime after 23. Surely, anyone over 16 is *leghally requried* to know that :))
Sat: WHY IS TESCO'S ALWAYS SHUT? Surely more people want to shop sat night than all other nights put together?!
Sun: An actual lie in (as in, having more than necessary sleep, not just sleeping late.) Though it didn't stop me being tired this morning. But i slept nearly 12 hours (woo!) and was just woken up but not got up when...
Sun: Justin visited (see above mod (T,J)) and we played Total Annihilation which he won by nuking me while I was saying things like "How do I steer?" and "Oh, I can shoot back!" though I didn't do *so* badly and wouldn't mind playing again.
Sun: Coffee with bachlover, who's lovely. And we had dinner at Trinity, which was ever so nostalgic.
Sun: CUSFS politics discussion. A small amount of politics. And a lot of meeting again people I've seen around (Simeon, Dan...) and exchanging maths jokes.
I was also introduced to two new memes. One is the 20-questions variant they favor, called "Concrete, Absrtact or Squiggy", at which it took us absolutely *ages* to guess Matthew's "April". The list of previously guessed topics is intimidating including things like "The reflection in the eyes of a yeti on everest of Dan's computer displaying..." and "Shrodinger's Equation" (Is it related to foo? Yes.) and other weirder ones I can't remember.
The other is like a death circus.
Sun: I hoped to finish Saldini and show people today, but I haven't had a free moment all weekend, and sunday night I went to bed. Maybe tonight.
[1] Edited for grammar. Thanks, Pippa.
Friday: general dancing. I'm getting in shape for the ball, sort of. I just got there for the last twenty minutes, but there were some people I remembered from when I used to go, including some I thought had quit dancing, or cambridge, or both.
Sat: shopping. I tried to get into town in time to buy a bike, but only had time for a quick look. But at least I've got a benchmark of what's available.
Sat: poohsoc. TCS *did* send a reporter to spy on us. The review was quite complimentary (I could see it potentially attracting people, which is good), but we're very uncomfortable with the 'spying' method of research. On the other hand, exactly how else are they supposed to do it? Surely going along as a new member is the only way to get a feel of what it'd like to be a new member, though you have to take into account that what *you* might not like, someone else *might*.
Sat: Tim's. Justin couldn't make it, which gave Tim and me1 a chance to catch up on the conversations which we have in common but Justin doesn't, and had a pleasant quiet evening making fun of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. (Q: what is the next prime after 23. Surely, anyone over 16 is *leghally requried* to know that :))
Sat: WHY IS TESCO'S ALWAYS SHUT? Surely more people want to shop sat night than all other nights put together?!
Sun: An actual lie in (as in, having more than necessary sleep, not just sleeping late.) Though it didn't stop me being tired this morning. But i slept nearly 12 hours (woo!) and was just woken up but not got up when...
Sun: Justin visited (see above mod (T,J)) and we played Total Annihilation which he won by nuking me while I was saying things like "How do I steer?" and "Oh, I can shoot back!" though I didn't do *so* badly and wouldn't mind playing again.
Sun: Coffee with bachlover, who's lovely. And we had dinner at Trinity, which was ever so nostalgic.
Sun: CUSFS politics discussion. A small amount of politics. And a lot of meeting again people I've seen around (Simeon, Dan...) and exchanging maths jokes.
I was also introduced to two new memes. One is the 20-questions variant they favor, called "Concrete, Absrtact or Squiggy", at which it took us absolutely *ages* to guess Matthew's "April". The list of previously guessed topics is intimidating including things like "The reflection in the eyes of a yeti on everest of Dan's computer displaying..." and "Shrodinger's Equation" (Is it related to foo? Yes.) and other weirder ones I can't remember.
The other is like a death circus.
Sun: I hoped to finish Saldini and show people today, but I haven't had a free moment all weekend, and sunday night I went to bed. Maybe tonight.
[1] Edited for grammar. Thanks, Pippa.
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Date: 2005-03-08 12:22 pm (UTC)As for the sweetie thing, what are you going to do, hunt me down? Or stop being my beta? *thinks again and whimpers* Any other words I can sub in - honey maybe? You've been spending too much time with Tim :(
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Date: 2005-03-08 12:33 pm (UTC)*thinks again and whimpers*
Mwahahaha! Obey me! No, in moderation is fine, but it'd be good if you can vary the drawling "endearments" :)
Besides, Tim has R now, it's so sweet :)
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Date: 2005-03-08 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-08 01:52 pm (UTC)Well, no, actually. Or at least not in public. But it's sweet for a geek :)
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Date: 2005-03-08 01:55 pm (UTC)Is Justin still going out with Tatiana?
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Date: 2005-03-08 02:00 pm (UTC)Is Justin still going out with Tatiana?
Yes. Though they're very non-demonstrative in public so there's not much in the way of pet[1] names there either.
[1] I mean "pet names", not "'pet' names". "pet" wouldn't count because everyone uses it of everyone.
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Date: 2005-03-08 02:15 pm (UTC)With anyone else that question would seem premature, but with Justin...
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Date: 2005-03-08 02:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-08 02:20 pm (UTC)