No, that sounds like eminantly reasonable advice. Thanks for your thoughts.
I think a gimic of some sort is good to get things going, but I never know what. I have *some* silly games, perhaps I should ask people to bring something... And I think by now I probably have some cult dvds. An internet connection would be nice because we can share 'you must see this spoof site' things, but I still don't.
There's an art to inviting people...
Yes. But it's tricky, because unless it's so few you can schedule round them you get a subset that might or might not be appropriate -- some people glue other people together well, some don't get on. For a dinner party I can do it, starting with inviting people and then inviting some more later depending. But this inevitably leads to people being left out, which shouldn't be a problem but can be.
They don't all have to know each other already, but people will feel less self concious and have more fun with a group of people they're fairly familiar with than with lots of disparate strangers
Sometimes I've just *known* some people will get on together and have been so right: I remember meeting tim's nearly-brother-in-law, and it was exactly like meeting Tim.
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Date: 2005-04-20 04:06 pm (UTC)No, that sounds like eminantly reasonable advice. Thanks for your thoughts.
I think a gimic of some sort is good to get things going, but I never know what. I have *some* silly games, perhaps I should ask people to bring something... And I think by now I probably have some cult dvds. An internet connection would be nice because we can share 'you must see this spoof site' things, but I still don't.
There's an art to inviting people...
Yes. But it's tricky, because unless it's so few you can schedule round them you get a subset that might or might not be appropriate -- some people glue other people together well, some don't get on. For a dinner party I can do it, starting with inviting people and then inviting some more later depending. But this inevitably leads to people being left out, which shouldn't be a problem but can be.
They don't all have to know each other already, but people will feel less self concious and have more fun with a group of people they're fairly familiar with than with lots of disparate strangers
Sometimes I've just *known* some people will get on together and have been so right: I remember meeting tim's nearly-brother-in-law, and it was exactly like meeting Tim.