Good weekend; bad morning

[triskellian]

The weekend was lovely... Roleplaying on Saturday with lathany, bateleur, chrestomancy, ao_lai and smiorgan, during which chrestomancy had to periodically perform emergency surgery with knitting needles on the air conditioner, to extract pencils and ribbons (air con units with slots do not mix well with toddlers).

When we got home, we watched Doctor Who, for which the not-a-Tivo seemed to have got over its aversion to changing channels in our absence. Judging by other comments on my flist I'm quite unusual in thinking it was a good episode (but I wish they'd get over the schoolboy-humour monsters. Although, as pointed out on sarcaustick's journal, this one did actually come from a create-a-monster competition for children). And I don't like Peter Kay at the best of times. But I loved the video diary format, and the ordinary person POV, and I even liked Jackie Tyler, for a change.

On Sunday, smiorgan, secretrebel, a_llusive and I drank pimms and played Mah Jong in the garden, with a soundtrack of various assorted mumbles, grunts, songs and rhymes (no, there were no toddlers around that day - that was us. Or perhaps I should say "them"). smiorgan won by a very long way indeed, fuelled by an initial reign of terror where we thought no one else would ever get the chance to be Jong*.

Then in the evening, we headed out to South Park to meet _yakumo_, a_llusive, bluedevi and assorted other poisters and jugglers, and, assisted by bluedevi's marvellous new flag poi, I finally 'got' not only the move I've been trying to learn for ages (alternating reels), but its reverse, too. And now I'm lusting after flag poi...

*Note for people who don't play Mah Jong - Jong is the 'chief' player, who both pays double and loses double when scoring. If you win as Jong, you remain so; if you lose, it moves around to the right.

This morning, on the other hand, sucks. I forgot to set the alarm last night, slept really badly, and wasn't awake enough by the time smiorgan left to realise that I needed to steal some of his money. I bumbled around the house, bumping into things and tripping over things, and was just about alert enough to realise that I needed to wake up a bit more before getting into the car to drive to work :-(

When I finally did get to work, I realised that my jeans are dirty, and my nail varnish is far too chipped to be allowed out in public, and I started off by getting annoyed and swearing at an office-mate, which is never a good start to the day :-(

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I forgot to try the flag poi dammit :(

thanks loads for coming :)