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Dec. 18th, 2011 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
satyricaA few things ended up being cancelled so it's been a quieter week than I was expecting, possibly no bad thing as I think I've more or less managed to do all that distracting preparing for Christmas nonsense instead.
I have had my fair share of festive gatherings though: we went to La Tasca for our last Spanish lesson of the semester, on the theory that the more relaxed surroundings (and the sangria) may help us speak- it worked a little but kinda devolved into one very enthusiastic guy chatting to the teacher the whole time and some of the others, unwatched, devolving into English, which kinda defeated the point. I headed on from there to Food Not Bombs Xmas Drinks, which I felt a little guilty about as we'd had to cancel the session on Monday; it was a smallish turnout but very pleasant.
On Thursday we went out for a pub lunch locally as our work celebration- I'd kinda instigated it (having done nothing last year) because I didn't feel we'd got past the polite, professional stage with the seasonal staff who came onboard for the shelters and I hoped it would be a bit of a bonding experience, but one of them didn't show up so it didn't really have the desired effect. I headed out with S to the Joiners Arms in the evening- I's a little disappointed that the scruffy staff and artfully shabby decor of the bar gave way to something fairly standard and uninspiring as the DJs started and it filled up later on, and the night inevitably ended with S getting rather too wasted, but it was otherwise pretty fun.
Since I was in the area on Friday, I finally popped by the Occupy camp at St. Paul's and poked around a bit: looked at their library and meeting space, overheard the vituperation of disapproving passers-by, watched some protestor dude perform poi-stick tricks for small change. I feel a little regretful that I've not really involved myself in any of the anti-cuts/anti-inequality protests since the Coalition came in, but my decision to withdraw from a shallow involvement in a broad range of groups to focus on FNB and Bent Bars has been leaving me a lot less dissatisfied in general so I guess I should stick with it. From there I headed out to Essex to spend a lovely evening chez![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anonymous_james.
I have had my fair share of festive gatherings though: we went to La Tasca for our last Spanish lesson of the semester, on the theory that the more relaxed surroundings (and the sangria) may help us speak- it worked a little but kinda devolved into one very enthusiastic guy chatting to the teacher the whole time and some of the others, unwatched, devolving into English, which kinda defeated the point. I headed on from there to Food Not Bombs Xmas Drinks, which I felt a little guilty about as we'd had to cancel the session on Monday; it was a smallish turnout but very pleasant.
On Thursday we went out for a pub lunch locally as our work celebration- I'd kinda instigated it (having done nothing last year) because I didn't feel we'd got past the polite, professional stage with the seasonal staff who came onboard for the shelters and I hoped it would be a bit of a bonding experience, but one of them didn't show up so it didn't really have the desired effect. I headed out with S to the Joiners Arms in the evening- I's a little disappointed that the scruffy staff and artfully shabby decor of the bar gave way to something fairly standard and uninspiring as the DJs started and it filled up later on, and the night inevitably ended with S getting rather too wasted, but it was otherwise pretty fun.
Since I was in the area on Friday, I finally popped by the Occupy camp at St. Paul's and poked around a bit: looked at their library and meeting space, overheard the vituperation of disapproving passers-by, watched some protestor dude perform poi-stick tricks for small change. I feel a little regretful that I've not really involved myself in any of the anti-cuts/anti-inequality protests since the Coalition came in, but my decision to withdraw from a shallow involvement in a broad range of groups to focus on FNB and Bent Bars has been leaving me a lot less dissatisfied in general so I guess I should stick with it. From there I headed out to Essex to spend a lovely evening chez
anonymous_james.
