actually, i made an effort to eat really well before rick's party last night, so i wouldn't get messed up like i did at mary's party. and that worked out pretty well. split a thermos full of cosmo's with christa, and got some little bottles of fancy sparkling water for sarah, since she was nice enough to drive us all over town last night.
before the party, georg, sarah and i went to a/v geeks. sometimes a/v geeks is hit or miss; sometimes there are boring moments, or films that don't quite work for everyone-- but last night was... bad. really bad. skip showed a film called the war game. sarah has done a good job of describing it for which i am thankful, because it means that i don't have to relive the memory of that film in order to describe it. i'll just say that i could have lived happily without ever hearing someone describe, in detail, exactly what radiation poisoning does to the human body.
he also showed two other films which were meant to balance it out, and failed to. one was an animated short called "the great snit". i thought some of the drawing bore a more than passing resemblance to yellow submarine so i attempted to look it up. in so doing, i made the dismaying discovery that the voices of the animated characters in yellow submarine are not the beatles themselves, but actors! that makes me very sad. i still love the movie, though.
at the party, i found i was having trouble with the question, "so what do you do?" i mean, props to rick for having a party where strangers actually talked to each other. but i couldn't stomach that question. i had sarah and christa practically (but not literally) rolling on the floor with laughter, but unfortunately i'm afraid that ricks' roommate lauren didn't feel like she was in on the joke. i told her that i was a cultural anthropologist; then i told her, "i play soccer". sarah told her that i own an art car (and had the chance to get in a jab about the independent's art car), and that i design tarot decks. we should have told her that sarah works at WCPE, but christa had already given a serious answer to the question, so it was too late.
actually, i should have told her that sarah drives out to roswell every summer for a convention. duh!! oh well, next time... of course, the great secret that we didn't let her in on is... we all do the same damn thing!!
sarah wore the dress, and i wore this sort of all-fuschia knit ensemble; in a party full of people wearing strange and flamboyant clothes i believe we may have been the most brightly dressed. jason chose to wear the star wars t-shirt that ian had given both of us, and it kind of gave me the wiggins to have something very ian-like present in the room, like a sort of ghost walking around amongst us.
surprise buffy-related piece of information from alicia; joss' father teaches at UNC! niku said that he may try to bring joss to guest lecture at the buffy course that is taught there.
Posted by lisa at January 17, 2004 11:23 AM | TrackBack