Weekend, mainly.
Oct. 3rd, 2005 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zotzIt seems that if you go off on one, there's a risk that it'll end up being read by people you've never heard of, who will the point it out to other people, some of whom you've actually already met. Very strange, but put like that not entirely unwelcome.
Last week was mostly unremarkable. I went for dinner and drinks with and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
grendelsmere on the occasion of Dave coming to Edinburgh for an evening, which was suitably fun. Viva Mexico for food then (as far as I can remember) Monkey then Hoose. Good to catch up.
The weekend involved being overcommitted. Friday I failed to lend out a lawnmower and ended up in the Hoose instead. On Monday I bought some records and a Ballboy ticket, then got reminded that I was due chez Saunders as well as Bucaing, so I went to the Monkey for a bit to catch up with people, only to find that nobody had arrived yet, so I didn't hang around. Chatted to Andrew J and Nicola on South Clerk Street, then got to Bruntsfield for Champions. Failed to download a nightbus map to see how I was supposed to get back fromprotocol_rain's party, so gave up slightly reluctantly on that because I had in any case to be at St Vincent's first for gingiber's drink. The world (and its dog) were there, and it's a nice place too. Apparently some years ago there was a killing there and it changed its name to something like "Coconut Sam's". No killings on Saturday, though.
Early on Sunday I fixed the problem with the PDF viewers, and then spoke to my folks, resulting in going to the Modern Art GAllery for lunch with them. We didnt finish in time to meetgingiber and anonymous_seth to go to Portobello, so I went to the Cartier-Bresson exhibition instead. And very good it was too. Then I went down to the Holyrood to meet up with purplerabbits and various others to go to Pancho Villa's for dinner (if I seem to be growing a Zapata moustache, someone please tell me). This seemed to be a success, but then Pancho Villa's so often is.
I caught the eclipse this morning through a couple of thin patches of cloud. Very nice. We still need more aurora, though.
So it was in some ways a slightly hectic weekend, but good fun. Now I'm back at work. I got a letter from the Uni last week pointing out that as no decision has been made concerning extending my contract, I should be looking for work, and outlining various ways they can help. I'm not sure whether this includes doing CVs or not. Probably not. That would just be too useful.
I'm quite annoyed with my work for having so little work involved in it, and for what there is being so far from either what the job really ought to be about (microscopy) or anything that I actually want to spend my life doing, but otherwise things are mostly good.seventorches, of course, has taken up plumbing, which is starting to sound like quite a tempting idea.
And finally, just because I can, a poll.
[Poll #582128]
Last week was mostly unremarkable. I went for dinner and drinks with and
grendelsmere on the occasion of Dave coming to Edinburgh for an evening, which was suitably fun. Viva Mexico for food then (as far as I can remember) Monkey then Hoose. Good to catch up.The weekend involved being overcommitted. Friday I failed to lend out a lawnmower and ended up in the Hoose instead. On Monday I bought some records and a Ballboy ticket, then got reminded that I was due chez Saunders as well as Bucaing, so I went to the Monkey for a bit to catch up with people, only to find that nobody had arrived yet, so I didn't hang around. Chatted to Andrew J and Nicola on South Clerk Street, then got to Bruntsfield for Champions. Failed to download a nightbus map to see how I was supposed to get back from
protocol_rain's party, so gave up slightly reluctantly on that because I had in any case to be at St Vincent's first for gingiber's drink. The world (and its dog) were there, and it's a nice place too. Apparently some years ago there was a killing there and it changed its name to something like "Coconut Sam's". No killings on Saturday, though.Early on Sunday I fixed the problem with the PDF viewers, and then spoke to my folks, resulting in going to the Modern Art GAllery for lunch with them. We didnt finish in time to meet
gingiber and anonymous_seth to go to Portobello, so I went to the Cartier-Bresson exhibition instead. And very good it was too. Then I went down to the Holyrood to meet up with purplerabbits and various others to go to Pancho Villa's for dinner (if I seem to be growing a Zapata moustache, someone please tell me). This seemed to be a success, but then Pancho Villa's so often is.I caught the eclipse this morning through a couple of thin patches of cloud. Very nice. We still need more aurora, though.
So it was in some ways a slightly hectic weekend, but good fun. Now I'm back at work. I got a letter from the Uni last week pointing out that as no decision has been made concerning extending my contract, I should be looking for work, and outlining various ways they can help. I'm not sure whether this includes doing CVs or not. Probably not. That would just be too useful.
I'm quite annoyed with my work for having so little work involved in it, and for what there is being so far from either what the job really ought to be about (microscopy) or anything that I actually want to spend my life doing, but otherwise things are mostly good.
seventorches, of course, has taken up plumbing, which is starting to sound like quite a tempting idea.And finally, just because I can, a poll.
[Poll #582128]
