1200 crêpes
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quislibet... but I only ate four of 'em.
A guy I've known since I moved to Boston has a crêpe party every year; he spends a few days feverishly making them (as well as some time rather earlier brewing Breton-style hard cider) and guests bring various fillings. Numerous skillets abound for the reheating process. What was, when he was a grad student at MIT, a small party with a few dozen people in his tiny apartment is now, when he is a teacher at a private bilingual high school, a massive to-do in the school dining hall with all of his old friends and the entire staff-student-and-parent population of the high school invited. He still makes all the crêpes himself.
Dearie me.
I hadn't seen him in a few years, and he's just in the next town over, so it was nice to reestablish contact. Fortunately it was an early-evening thing, so we could still pop down to the Sinister House (*) for a going-away/birthday party. I could put some lj usernames up here of people who were there and with whom I had rewarding and lengthy conversations, but do you really care?
Unfortunately with all of that going on, as well as a Prospectus Draft Three to finish this weekend, I had to pass on two other parties this weekend, although the one yesterday would have worked in the schedule, as it was an afternoon thing (and involved homebrew, so it would have flowed nicely).
Alas.
But I will finish this draft in a timely fashion, which is good. Possibly it will even be done before dinner. I hope very much that it will be the final draft, but no doubt my advisor will have some brand new reservations about passages that have been unchanged since August, and he won't tell me about them until mid-February. But a boy can dream.
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There's a used condom out on the sidewalk, along with two wrappers. (Where's the other condom? Is it just lurking somewhere, waiting to strike?)
I hope it was used on site, and they got frostbite.
(*) I understand that at least once upon a time there was, in the Boston SCA world, also a House Sinister which, like Sinister House, was known for its parties, but that's a completely different group of people. Just so you don't get confused.
A guy I've known since I moved to Boston has a crêpe party every year; he spends a few days feverishly making them (as well as some time rather earlier brewing Breton-style hard cider) and guests bring various fillings. Numerous skillets abound for the reheating process. What was, when he was a grad student at MIT, a small party with a few dozen people in his tiny apartment is now, when he is a teacher at a private bilingual high school, a massive to-do in the school dining hall with all of his old friends and the entire staff-student-and-parent population of the high school invited. He still makes all the crêpes himself.
Dearie me.
I hadn't seen him in a few years, and he's just in the next town over, so it was nice to reestablish contact. Fortunately it was an early-evening thing, so we could still pop down to the Sinister House (*) for a going-away/birthday party. I could put some lj usernames up here of people who were there and with whom I had rewarding and lengthy conversations, but do you really care?
Unfortunately with all of that going on, as well as a Prospectus Draft Three to finish this weekend, I had to pass on two other parties this weekend, although the one yesterday would have worked in the schedule, as it was an afternoon thing (and involved homebrew, so it would have flowed nicely).
Alas.
But I will finish this draft in a timely fashion, which is good. Possibly it will even be done before dinner. I hope very much that it will be the final draft, but no doubt my advisor will have some brand new reservations about passages that have been unchanged since August, and he won't tell me about them until mid-February. But a boy can dream.
---
There's a used condom out on the sidewalk, along with two wrappers. (Where's the other condom? Is it just lurking somewhere, waiting to strike?)
I hope it was used on site, and they got frostbite.
(*) I understand that at least once upon a time there was, in the Boston SCA world, also a House Sinister which, like Sinister House, was known for its parties, but that's a completely different group of people. Just so you don't get confused.
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Date: 2003-01-26 09:00 pm (UTC)My brunches with cheesy eggs for 30 feel so insignificant all of the sudden.