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Sep. 23rd, 2011 08:34 pmEarlier this week was the social Drink-and-Chat-athon that always precedes the start of the school year. It's the first time we get to meet the new crop of students, true, but more importantly, it's the first time we've see EACH OTHER since the panicked final days of class.
And in true form, much merriment was had. I did try to do more listening and worry less about entertaining people so that they like me, but it's still by nature an dance of an event rather than a sit-in. We all orbited slowly round each other, relating our summers and occasionally rocketing off for more beer. I was glad to see people back, but there were some highlights:
-ZEBEDIAH*, the older student in my cohort who's recovering from a very strict black-and-white religious background, had gone to boot camp and chaplain training for much of the summer. He came back looking lean and whippet-like and a bit haunted by the experience, but not really able to put it into words yet.
-STUBBLE* has gotten into a dual degree program and will not be around as much.
-GHANDI** has come back from his musical travels and I'm just generally less jealous of him than I used to be.
*Not the real name.
** Not the real ethnicity of said person.
And in true form, much merriment was had. I did try to do more listening and worry less about entertaining people so that they like me, but it's still by nature an dance of an event rather than a sit-in. We all orbited slowly round each other, relating our summers and occasionally rocketing off for more beer. I was glad to see people back, but there were some highlights:
-ZEBEDIAH*, the older student in my cohort who's recovering from a very strict black-and-white religious background, had gone to boot camp and chaplain training for much of the summer. He came back looking lean and whippet-like and a bit haunted by the experience, but not really able to put it into words yet.
-STUBBLE* has gotten into a dual degree program and will not be around as much.
-GHANDI** has come back from his musical travels and I'm just generally less jealous of him than I used to be.
*Not the real name.
** Not the real ethnicity of said person.
