rassef social

This one went moderately well. I arrived early, and settled in at the slightly better-lit of the two upstairs groups of couches with my soda and Ken MacLeod's The Star Fraction. After I'd read for a few minutes, aiglet showed up, and we chatted, and were joined by other people, including roadnotes, Arwen, Neil (a Briton who mostly posts to rasf.composition), Aiglet's friend Eric, a David who recently moved to New York, and Danny Lieberman. Conversation ranged over people's lives, weird food, the proper way to teach New Math (which is what Neil is doing for a living--he can't give them set theory, at least not yet, but they're getting number theory and probability, so that's okay), politics (at the other end of the table), and teas. Also, we set a few odd potato chips on fire.

Eventually people talked about dinner. I'd thought of going along on the dinner expedition, and then realized that it would mean an extra walk in the cold, and all of the people I most wanted to talk to were going home. So I came home, and made a chicken curry, using half-and-half because we had it (usually I use milk, because we always have that), and lemon juice because I generally use lime. We're now out of curry powder, and I had to throw in a bit of extra cumin because we were short. It worked well, and we are well-fed and content, and I am inordinately pleased with myself for getting home at 9:20 and heading straight for the cutting board.

rassef social

This one went moderately well. I arrived early, and settled in at the slightly better-lit of the two upstairs groups of couches with my soda and Ken MacLeod's The Star Fraction. After I'd read for a few minutes, aiglet showed up, and we chatted, and were joined by other people, including roadnotes, Arwen, Neil (a Briton who mostly posts to rasf.composition), Aiglet's friend Eric, a David who recently moved to New York, and Danny Lieberman. Conversation ranged over people's lives, weird food, the proper way to teach New Math (which is what Neil is doing for a living--he can't give them set theory, at least not yet, but they're getting number theory and probability, so that's okay), politics (at the other end of the table), and teas. Also, we set a few odd potato chips on fire.

Eventually people talked about dinner. I'd thought of going along on the dinner expedition, and then realized that it would mean an extra walk in the cold, and all of the people I most wanted to talk to were going home. So I came home, and made a chicken curry, using half-and-half because we had it (usually I use milk, because we always have that), and lemon juice because I generally use lime. We're now out of curry powder, and I had to throw in a bit of extra cumin because we were short. It worked well, and we are well-fed and content, and I am inordinately pleased with myself for getting home at 9:20 and heading straight for the cutting board.