I Miss Geeks (by sarah)
Yesturday we went to my Friend Andrews birthday party. I went along before Alaric did as he wanted to mow some of the lawn here. I'm not really focusing on much at the moment with the Alex stuff going on resulting in me telling Ella that I had left her wash bag at our place (she'd forgotten it the day before) and getting someone to txt Al to ask him to bring it, only to discover that I had actually packed it :/.
We had lunch in a lovely mediterean place where I had the most gorgous chocolate fudge cake I think I have ever tasted - I also think I went up about three dress sizes just from sniffing it! I saw people I hadn't seen since before our wedding! I had in short a great time.
Again they where all Imperial geeks (when I say Imperial I mean they went to Imperial College with me). There were mathermaticians, computer peeps, a physicist, a chemist and a geologists. Of course they all do programming now but wow! Conversations that you can really get your teeth into! And when asked what I am currently up to and saying making Websites had them nodding and saying 'haven't we all' rather than people looking at me like I am a hydra!
We played a game called Illuminarti which was about conspiracy theories and was really funny though didnt really work with the number of people playing and every one was mean to poor Ella (bar me) - ganging up on her to remove her prematurally from the game.
Andrew put on the most amazing spread of food for the fondues he did! He did one with boiling oil that had two types of red meat and samon to dunk, there was freash bread to dunk in the supurb cheese fondue. There was also a tomato bread to dunk.
He then did two chocolate fondues - one white chocolate which I had never had, the other dark. There was water melon, strawberries, orange, bannana, apple (though this was with the cheese fondue as well) and other sundry fruits to dunk! I was in heaven - even Alaric managed to enjoy this chocolate fondue and as he doesn't eat chocolate that is some feat!
We left well after midnight and I was back there today for lunch - first though we went to the park to look at the animals - there are chipmonks in Cheltenham! I never knew! I just have to take Jean there at some point. I think I went a bit too gooey over the animals.
We had another fantastic meal and I bugged everyone for sponsorship but more on that later.
I've had a great weekend, though I have been a bit of a wet blanket and people have been very tolerent especially Ella who I told off for no good reason :/ its that being around a three year thing. The sadness was there though, and I wanted to run away from Andrew at some points becuase he is an old uni friend here near me, who is showing me stuff around the place - this is what Alex was doing and I would have introduced them at some point. It just felt like tempting fate - I knwo it is silly its just how I feel.
Sun 21st Sep 2008 10:13 pm 
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By ella gale, Tue 23rd Sep 2008 @ 2:22 pm
Heh, I got over being told off. And I only noticed cos I wasn't feeling too well.
I'm glad you both had fun, I did too, other than the cold.
By Sarah, Wed 24th Sep 2008 @ 9:50 pm
I think I needed such university style stuff to get me out of my rut. HAving you around to talk to on Thursday and Fridaymade a lot of difference.