fact: 'mi' actually is in the dictionary.
i found all the weird people. it turned out they were hiding in their dorms during the day and only emerged for dinner. when i saw the kid in full SCA regalia chatting to the kid in inked-up hightops and a stencilled Dead Kennedys shirt, i knew it was going to be okay.
dinner proved unsettling, given the discussion at my table, which revolved mostly around 300, and when the topic did finally turn to Meno, at least three people repeatedly conflated plato and socrates, and a fourth did nothing but enthuse over the hotness of young greek men. a fifth played dejectedly with his salad, after mumbling that he was only here because his parents refused to send him anywhere else.
but then i went to seminar, and i realised that finally, i am home. it took seven years, but i'm home.
i skipped the waltz party in favour of cheap shiraz and scrabble, though. (and a special viewing of 300.)
posted by anne @ 12:21 AM
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I am so glad to hear this! Go go gadget annelet with your super johnny powers! Find all the weirdies and rock the classes! You have a team made up of the entire intarweb rooting for you.
I am feeling incredibly jealous/nostalgic right now. As Julia says, go go Gadget Annelt!
Welcome home! You belong there more than probably 90% of the people I met there. (Myself, obviously, included.) (Though I'd already met myself at that point.) (Ah, but did I know myself?)
I'm glad there was the guy with inked up high-tops.
But what kind of scrabble was it? At some point in the Chase-Stone basement we became inordinately fond of the version where the words must be dirty in some way but can be spelled in any way that is convenient.
And...it's back to printing my full names again. Stoopid google mergers.
martin, not liking philosophy is sort of a handicap, i'll admit...
i liked high-tops guy. he wore them to convocation, too, and was in my meno seminar.
we played Short-Attention-Span Scrabble, Belligerent Variation, in which the players primarily spend their time squabbling over which dictionary to use for challenges and no played word is allowed to exceed five characters in length.
dirty scrabble's more fun, though.
Oh, gosh, that's a highly incompatible version: we regularly spelled fuck with more than 5 letters in dirty scrabble.
that *is* impressive.
Huzzah!
Good post.
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