All these things that I have done

Yikes it's cold in here. That's the main problem with my seat in the office, I find - it's right next to the server room, which is glass walled. Is it me, or is a glass walled server room a very dodgy idea? Anyway, it's noticeably more cold in my seat that almost anywhere else in the office.

I feel like I should write some kind of Caption write up, but as often happens when you're organising, I didn't get much of sense of how the event itself went. I think it was OK and so far the feedback seems good. The panel I ran on Sunday went pretty well. There weren't a huge number of people there because it was right at the end of the day but there were a few and we got into some good discussions. The bid to get a new committee going worked out, so next year perhaps I'll be able to go along and just do the event. We'll see - after all, we didn't really let the old committee get away with that (sorry, Jeremy!)...

I had a really nice evening yesterday. We didn't have anything to do so I did an hour or so of work in the front garden and got quite a bit cleared before going inside to cook dinner. Spaghetti bolagnaise and a shared bottle of wine followed by chilling out with a guide to Langedoc et Rousillion to read up a bit of the history and stuff, which I haven't absorbed much on our previous visits. Today and tomorrow we're out and about and then another two quiet days before the weekend. Bliss.

My parents are really stressed because the sale of my grandfathers house has reached the very rare stage where contracts were exchanged but the other side failed to hand over the money on completion date. It's bizarre because the other side picked the completion date themselves so you'd think they'd be ready but they've not been very good the whole way through. I really hope this gets wrapped up before we have to go because if it's still hanging (or worse still, if the property has had to go back on the market) then they won't really be able to relax. And boy do they need to relax this year.

So here we are again - Monday morning. I'm actually feeling pretty refreshed after last nights decision not to go to OUSFG (last one of term :( On the other hand, I know that lot and most of them will be around next weekend anyway) but instead to sit around and read (and have hugs from Alex after the film). Meant to go and see the film (Woman of the Dunes - cleanskies went so she'll probably tell you about it) but had stinking headache when I got back from Xmas shopping and decided to be lazy. Shocking.

So, the weekend. Well, Friday night was nice and quiet. Alex and I skipped out on going to see Harry Potter (me because I'm probably going to see it with my mum next weekend and him, if I understand it correctly, because it will be kinda cool to be able to pick up all the opinions/criticism necessary from the zeitgeist) and so we sat around and watched Buffy (a perennial favorite) and then went to bed and hugged. Managed not to get up til 12:30 on Sat (hoorah!) and then set about trying to sort out Xmas party costumes. Decided to go as Sapphire and Steel as it was fairly easy to do so I went out and bought a blond wig and Alex went out and bought some blond hair dye! What with his hair being naturally brown the result was more golden than ash blonde but it still looked pretty cool. Suitably arrayed, off we went...

The party itself was actually one of the best I've been to because instead of having it in one big room we had 2 smaller rooms. This meant that we could have the music in one and those of us who don't really share the RPGsoc musical taste we could sit in comfort in the room with the drinks and gossip :) Had a nice chat with Mike and Tom and all those people who I haven't seen much of this term and had a lot of wine. Plus, to cap it all off, we won 2nd prize (the bottle of port) in the costume competition - yay!

As you may have gathered from above, we had a lie in on Sunday, followed by lunch at Joes with the guys (always nice) and then Xmas shopping (yay!) in the rain (boo!). Plus I was a little bit fragile so I didn't enjoy it as much as I might have done but still, I did do very nicely in Blackwells with Alex's discount card :) I like having a boyfriend who's company owns bookshops :)