Lunch and thereafter
Dec. 3rd, 2004 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seandcWell, I have officially survived Christmas Lunch, and the planning sesh beforehand. The TAFE across the road has a strange feeling - all galleries and walkways. The main part of the building is all airy and opened out beneath the roof, with huge windows. The other part did have normal corridors, but more rooms are open to them. Just who designed the theatrette? Year 7s? Cause the seats were tiny. The courtyard has changed a lot since the last time I went through it (when I was still a student) - the mix of trees and stone columns is strange, but nice.
The Atrium did a good spread as one might expect of a smorgasbord in our highest profile hotel complex. The room itself was another huge open one (the restaurant was just one wall under an undercroft, that's how big it was). The chocolate mousse was positively sinful. And hazelnutty. And one of the waitresses looked like Anya from Buffy - shall we say half-clone, Becc, Lesley? :lol: Just wish Bossman wasn't so keen on getting photos of us all - note, groupshots with people standing next to eachother with more than a head's difference - not good.
Didn't stop in at the casino afterwards though... I figured I'd blow enough money doing what I ended up doing - skipping straight back to town on my weekly sweep through the comic shop and the DVD store (Red Dwarf 5, finally out, yay!)
There's a thread in the SFF forum about what kind of superpowers we'd like, with the ability to choose three. I'm a nerd... when I first saw it, I wasn't choosing, I was matching each power to which X-Man... ;)
In the end, I chose walking through walls, the ability to influence people's behaviour through mind control, and other/teleportation. For those keeping count, that's Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat, Rachel Grey/Marvel Girl (ok, so it could be any telepath, but I was thinking of her changing people's perceptions in a recent ish), and Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler.
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boywhocantsayno
Name the Last Four Things You Have Bought: A whole slew of X-Men comics, bottle of coke, A*Team DVDs, Red Dwarf DVDs.
Name Four Drinks You Regularly Drink: Coke, juice, cordial, water.
Last Time You Cried? The 14th, when I stopped to think what anniversary it was.
What's In Your CD Player? Nothing right now.
What's Under Your Bed? A doorway to another unseen dimension. Plus my shoes and bright torch.
What Time Did You Wake Up Today? 5:45 am.
Current Hair? Brown, as usual. Short, with enough fringe left to give it some personality.
Current Clothes? Blue shortsleeved shirt, black shorts.
Current Desktop Picture? Amber Benson still.
Current worry? Having to write part of the procedures manual, and how to do so without a page of *headdesk*.
Current hate? Howard's government.
Favorite Places To Be? Home. (hear hear!)
Least Favorite Place? On crowded public transit. (oh, close to mine... I just will not get on a crowded bus anymore - but crowded streets are worse for me, since they *could* be good, if people would just show an ounce of common sense, or at least not act like sheep...)
If You Could Play An Instrument? Then what? Drums just so I could do my own rimshots...
Favorite Color(s)? Teal...
How Tall Are You? 190 cm.
Favorite expression? *gives blank look a la Homer in Treehouse of Horror um... 3 I think... his reaction to "The toppings contain potassium benzoate"*
One Person From Your Past You Wish You Could Talk To: Ann, one more time.
Favorite Day(s)? Saturday.
Where Would You Like To Go? Back to the comic shop...
Where do you want to live when you get married? Hmmm... where are you all from, oh FL peoples? ;) :lol:
Favorite food? Icecream (I'm bad... I know...)
Color of most clothes you own: Blues, blacks, greens.
Number of pillows you sleep w/? One, the good one that doesn't flatten out. I use the old one too to prop myself up for reading, so I suppose that counts for if I fall asleep...
What do you wear when you go to sleep: Me derps.
What were you doing 12AM last night: Falling asleep exhausted (from so many nights staying up later than 12 talking...)
How old will you be in 10 yrs: 35.
What do you think you'll be doing in 10 years: Breathing. Eating. Drinking. Online stuff... unless I'm given a way to just upload my consciousness...
Do you have braces? Nup.
Are you paranoid?! [Garibaldi voice] Who told you to say that? *reaches for PPG*
Do you burn or tan? Burn.
What is the brand of your wallet? I don't know, I found a card with the store name, but dunno if it's the brand...
First piercing/tattoo? Nada
First enemy? Most of my schoolmates in grade 5. (odd, that's about when my school chums turned into enemies...)
Last person you yelled at? Don't remember. Last person I wanted to yell at though... ;)
Last crush? :angel:
Last thing you ate? Some mango frozen yoghurt.
The last time you had sex it was...? A previous lifetime.
And these lifted fromlizblackdog
The Atrium did a good spread as one might expect of a smorgasbord in our highest profile hotel complex. The room itself was another huge open one (the restaurant was just one wall under an undercroft, that's how big it was). The chocolate mousse was positively sinful. And hazelnutty. And one of the waitresses looked like Anya from Buffy - shall we say half-clone, Becc, Lesley? :lol: Just wish Bossman wasn't so keen on getting photos of us all - note, groupshots with people standing next to eachother with more than a head's difference - not good.
Didn't stop in at the casino afterwards though... I figured I'd blow enough money doing what I ended up doing - skipping straight back to town on my weekly sweep through the comic shop and the DVD store (Red Dwarf 5, finally out, yay!)
There's a thread in the SFF forum about what kind of superpowers we'd like, with the ability to choose three. I'm a nerd... when I first saw it, I wasn't choosing, I was matching each power to which X-Man... ;)
In the end, I chose walking through walls, the ability to influence people's behaviour through mind control, and other/teleportation. For those keeping count, that's Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat, Rachel Grey/Marvel Girl (ok, so it could be any telepath, but I was thinking of her changing people's perceptions in a recent ish), and Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler.
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boywhocantsaynoName the Last Four Things You Have Bought: A whole slew of X-Men comics, bottle of coke, A*Team DVDs, Red Dwarf DVDs.
Name Four Drinks You Regularly Drink: Coke, juice, cordial, water.
Last Time You Cried? The 14th, when I stopped to think what anniversary it was.
What's In Your CD Player? Nothing right now.
What's Under Your Bed? A doorway to another unseen dimension. Plus my shoes and bright torch.
What Time Did You Wake Up Today? 5:45 am.
Current Hair? Brown, as usual. Short, with enough fringe left to give it some personality.
Current Clothes? Blue shortsleeved shirt, black shorts.
Current Desktop Picture? Amber Benson still.
Current worry? Having to write part of the procedures manual, and how to do so without a page of *headdesk*.
Current hate? Howard's government.
Favorite Places To Be? Home. (hear hear!)
Least Favorite Place? On crowded public transit. (oh, close to mine... I just will not get on a crowded bus anymore - but crowded streets are worse for me, since they *could* be good, if people would just show an ounce of common sense, or at least not act like sheep...)
If You Could Play An Instrument? Then what? Drums just so I could do my own rimshots...
Favorite Color(s)? Teal...
How Tall Are You? 190 cm.
Favorite expression? *gives blank look a la Homer in Treehouse of Horror um... 3 I think... his reaction to "The toppings contain potassium benzoate"*
One Person From Your Past You Wish You Could Talk To: Ann, one more time.
Favorite Day(s)? Saturday.
Where Would You Like To Go? Back to the comic shop...
Where do you want to live when you get married? Hmmm... where are you all from, oh FL peoples? ;) :lol:
Favorite food? Icecream (I'm bad... I know...)
Color of most clothes you own: Blues, blacks, greens.
Number of pillows you sleep w/? One, the good one that doesn't flatten out. I use the old one too to prop myself up for reading, so I suppose that counts for if I fall asleep...
What do you wear when you go to sleep: Me derps.
What were you doing 12AM last night: Falling asleep exhausted (from so many nights staying up later than 12 talking...)
How old will you be in 10 yrs: 35.
What do you think you'll be doing in 10 years: Breathing. Eating. Drinking. Online stuff... unless I'm given a way to just upload my consciousness...
Do you have braces? Nup.
Are you paranoid?! [Garibaldi voice] Who told you to say that? *reaches for PPG*
Do you burn or tan? Burn.
What is the brand of your wallet? I don't know, I found a card with the store name, but dunno if it's the brand...
First piercing/tattoo? Nada
First enemy? Most of my schoolmates in grade 5. (odd, that's about when my school chums turned into enemies...)
Last person you yelled at? Don't remember. Last person I wanted to yell at though... ;)
Last crush? :angel:
Last thing you ate? Some mango frozen yoghurt.
The last time you had sex it was...? A previous lifetime.
And these lifted from
lizblackdog
