Committee meeting; Christmas party; Shopping and Bond-age; Various parties; More shopping; Turkish people
12/4
Spent the day putting off preparing for the committee meeting, and then the evening resisting the temptation to play Wii and instead working, finally, on stuff for the committee meeting. I remember coming home late and it being cold as balls.
12/5
So the committee meeting came and went. They were mostly satisfied but suggested that I should get a paper out soon. Of course, that much was obvious. Thanks, committee!
Dead tired, I came home and took a nap. Then, having missed my usual laundry date due to the company in town the previous weekend, I caught up on that.
Char and various others gathered up at Kelvin Arms for beer in celebration of another committee meeting gone by.
12/6
Departmental party; Turks; Two Rows
Our departmental Christmas party was held at a faculty member's home, which was a great excuse to cheap out on the food and booze. Figuring nobody would show up on time, Cindy and I came fashionably late, only to discover the food gone and the beer warm. We didn't stick around long.
Instead, we went for Turkish food at Istanbul in the village. We had the Turkish pizza, but it wasn't all that great. My previous experience there, years before, had been positive, but this time I wasn't particularly impressed. The Turkish coffee was good, though.
After that, on over to Two Rows'. I'd rather pay $1 for a cold beer than drink a free warm one.
12/7
I started doing some Christmas shopping. It was expertly planned. Sam's closed at 8:30, IKEA at 9, and Bed Bath & Beyond at 9:30. I hit Sam's at 8:15, IKEA at 8:45, and BB&B at 9:15. As is traditional, I got Southern Living's Annual Recipes for Dad at Sam's. At IKEA I bought a DVD storage thingy that the full one I already had (since I had some money to spare). At BB&B, I looked at waffle irons for Cindy.
I got home from there and then met up with Cindy and Will to catch the new James Bond flick, which, as I'm sure most of you know, was excellent.
12/8
As I did last year, I joined Cindy for the neuroscience departmental Christmas party. Free food and drinks at Ouisie's; can't turn that down.
Something may or may not have gone on afterwards.
12/9
A running them for the month was having extra money. I TAed a class (which involved minimal effort) and was paid handsomely, and, the way the calendar fell that month, we got three paychecks instead of two. Plus, due to an accounting error, I'd been getting paid less than I should since June and finally got the backpay for that. So I was rolling in it.
When Jeff got me a keyboard fo rmy birthday so I could start playing with he and Vincent, it was a good start. But hell, there's only so much you can do with four octaves. So I opted to take advantage of the Levi connection and move on up. Levi got me a sweet deal on the full 88 key version of the keyboard I had, and it had semi-weighted keys, which make the feel a little more realistic. While I was there I splurged on a portable piano bench and a music stand too. All dirt cheap!
12/10
Not counting the various Asian nationals, who I don't really know anyway, the one nationality that I know the most of at school is... the Turks. There's a ton of them! Anyway, Meliz, a friend of Cindy and me, was moving away, following her boss. Vincent's girlfriend, also Turkish, was throwing her a going away party, so we went over there. There was food, nice weather, beer, and someone made mulled wine. Nice evening...
Spent the day putting off preparing for the committee meeting, and then the evening resisting the temptation to play Wii and instead working, finally, on stuff for the committee meeting. I remember coming home late and it being cold as balls.
12/5
So the committee meeting came and went. They were mostly satisfied but suggested that I should get a paper out soon. Of course, that much was obvious. Thanks, committee!
Dead tired, I came home and took a nap. Then, having missed my usual laundry date due to the company in town the previous weekend, I caught up on that.
Char and various others gathered up at Kelvin Arms for beer in celebration of another committee meeting gone by.
12/6
Departmental party; Turks; Two Rows
Our departmental Christmas party was held at a faculty member's home, which was a great excuse to cheap out on the food and booze. Figuring nobody would show up on time, Cindy and I came fashionably late, only to discover the food gone and the beer warm. We didn't stick around long.
Instead, we went for Turkish food at Istanbul in the village. We had the Turkish pizza, but it wasn't all that great. My previous experience there, years before, had been positive, but this time I wasn't particularly impressed. The Turkish coffee was good, though.
After that, on over to Two Rows'. I'd rather pay $1 for a cold beer than drink a free warm one.
12/7
I started doing some Christmas shopping. It was expertly planned. Sam's closed at 8:30, IKEA at 9, and Bed Bath & Beyond at 9:30. I hit Sam's at 8:15, IKEA at 8:45, and BB&B at 9:15. As is traditional, I got Southern Living's Annual Recipes for Dad at Sam's. At IKEA I bought a DVD storage thingy that the full one I already had (since I had some money to spare). At BB&B, I looked at waffle irons for Cindy.
I got home from there and then met up with Cindy and Will to catch the new James Bond flick, which, as I'm sure most of you know, was excellent.
12/8
As I did last year, I joined Cindy for the neuroscience departmental Christmas party. Free food and drinks at Ouisie's; can't turn that down.
Something may or may not have gone on afterwards.
12/9
A running them for the month was having extra money. I TAed a class (which involved minimal effort) and was paid handsomely, and, the way the calendar fell that month, we got three paychecks instead of two. Plus, due to an accounting error, I'd been getting paid less than I should since June and finally got the backpay for that. So I was rolling in it.
When Jeff got me a keyboard fo rmy birthday so I could start playing with he and Vincent, it was a good start. But hell, there's only so much you can do with four octaves. So I opted to take advantage of the Levi connection and move on up. Levi got me a sweet deal on the full 88 key version of the keyboard I had, and it had semi-weighted keys, which make the feel a little more realistic. While I was there I splurged on a portable piano bench and a music stand too. All dirt cheap!
12/10
Not counting the various Asian nationals, who I don't really know anyway, the one nationality that I know the most of at school is... the Turks. There's a ton of them! Anyway, Meliz, a friend of Cindy and me, was moving away, following her boss. Vincent's girlfriend, also Turkish, was throwing her a going away party, so we went over there. There was food, nice weather, beer, and someone made mulled wine. Nice evening...
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posted by L. Maxwell Ward at 2:17 AM
