Goodness

[lnr]

When Marna and Juliet both suggested I come and join them in the pub for lunch today I wasn't expecting there to be quite such a crowd of us [1]. Jethro, Terri, Jan and (I think) Martin did an absolutely wonderful job of keeping us all in food and drink as well as coping with the usual Sunday regulars, and it was a really pleasant way to spend the afternoon, as well as a nice lunch. By the time Jan joined us at the end of her shift there were rather fewer of us left than there had been previously, but it was nice to sit and talk. Lovely to see everybody again in the light of day, and also to catch up with fivemack and hampsterboy who I hadn't seen in ages.

It was disturbing to suddenly realise at 3:30 that it was only about 12 hours since I'd gone to sleep, which might have explained why I was feeling somewhat mildly out-of-it, in a not unpleasant sort of way. The last 3 of us finally gave up around 5:30, and Duncan was lucky enough to have a bus turn up almost immediately. Arranged to have lunch with Jan on Wednesday (mmm noodles) and Duncan's going to drop me a line if he fancies meeting up for lunch some other day. Got home and watched the Time Team special on the colossus ship which sank of the Scilly Isles. It was moderately interesting, but not as good as some of them have been. Chinese now (Tesco Finest) and then we'll settle down to watch Starship Troopers before bed. Lovely weekend.

[1] I think the full list is more or less as follows, though I may have missed some:

• marnameow
  
• julietk
  
• Pete WINOLJ
  
• ewx
  
• fivemack
  
• lnr
  
• hampsterboy
  
• sbp
  
• kittygoth
  
• ali_anarres
  
• j4
  
• mpinna
  
• Ed W(I Think)INOLJ aidehua
  
• Jamie WITINOLJ (was Ned around?)
  
• luser_cop
  
• daneel_olivaw
  
• ejde
  
• saraphale
  
• hollyp
  
• johannm
  
• simonb
  
• rillaith
  
• Chris Ball
  

Oh yeah, and kaet was in for lunch with his parents too, and Patrick (who I gather has one but I don't know what it is arnhem) at the bar when I arrived.

Comments

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

Since the removal of invite-codes, there has been a recent trend of trolling whereby someone adds loads of people to their Friends list - though usually they make at least one entry (after all, they need somewhere for people to comment "Take me of your friends list!!", which seems to be what they find amusing). (I have spacexghost on my list, who seems to be of this sort.)

Oh wait, half way through writing this, he just has added an entry (http://www.livejournal.com/users/echoing_void/412.html)! Oh well, I wait in suspense - I'm not someone on his friends list, but I'm still curious!

[lnr]

Interesting how you say "he"!

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

Ah yes.. I'm often guilty of assuming a gender when I write about an unknown person I'm afraid (though I don't always assume male.. I'm not sure what it does depend on really). He or she, then:)

[imc.livejournal.com]

I was apparently on kko_'s friends list for a couple of weeks in February. No idea who it is, but they had over 1,000 friends at one point. I ignored it and it went away.

For some reason I haven't attracted echoing_void's attention, though.