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Post-formal report :)
Dec. 4th, 2000 04:18 amI like formals :)
Busy day! started setting up for the formal around 1--lot of cleaning, converting dining room to parlor and living room to formal dining room (and later dance floor). had to drive Stan's truck down to DTD to borrow a bunch of chairs cuz Taylor Rental forgot to deliver the ones we ordered, despite checking it off on the invoice--how do you check off 40 folding chairs when you haven't actually delivered any? (and 'bout no one else in the house can drive stick) Then had to rush downtown to get film for my camera, and get a ticket for a No Right Turn on Red that I totally missed, rush back home to get changed and go pick up Elise.. (oh, and discovered that much like waiting till friday to go to the cleaners for a Sunday formal (no luck), waiting till Sunday to get a corsage for a Sunday formal is also a bad idea. last time they could make one for me on the spot, but not this time--the owner (who's best at it and knows how to design/make corsages) wasn't there and the 2 people present didn't know how. So, I got her a bouquet instead, which was actually really nice (white sweetheart roses, purple something-or-others) and probably more convenient than a corsage anyhow :)
Dinner was a bean/potato/spinach soup; filet mignon, salmon steaks, and/or pasta&veggies; twice-baked potatoes, and something else I couldn't actually define; had a bottle of Reisling and one of Zinfandel at our table--good stuff :)
Post-dinner entertainment was [don't know--some all-female a cappella group that I missed cuz the brothers had to convert dining area to dance area; no great loss, from what I could hear, and since I usually don't like all-female a cappella], and great (Class Notes, coed a cappella--always good, I have both their CDs :)
The DJs for the dance were actually pretty good--good mix of techno/dance, latin, and the occasional slow song; people wandered between the dance floor and the downstairs room (parlor, had the bar as well as coffee and dessert (chocolate cake)
And unless I interpret a series of blatant signs totally incorrectly, I have a new girlfriend. Her name's Elise :)
Drove Elise home around 1am, came back to consort with the increasingly-drunk set of people downstairs (who I could hear from 2 floor away, through a series of open doors and stairwells); with the help of Alan Morse and Tony, made sure they didn't hurt anyone or anything and attempted to direct them off to bed, which eventually worked (around 2:30.) Also drove a couple of Simon's girlfriend's friends home cuz a) they weren't sober, and b) it was 12 degrees out.
I still haven't written those two reports, though. or laid out the house budget for next semester, or done my course eval for Theater. 'course, I didn't really expect to :) (semiformal friday night, habitat most of saturday, club sat night, formal setup and formal sunday..)
Busy day! started setting up for the formal around 1--lot of cleaning, converting dining room to parlor and living room to formal dining room (and later dance floor). had to drive Stan's truck down to DTD to borrow a bunch of chairs cuz Taylor Rental forgot to deliver the ones we ordered, despite checking it off on the invoice--how do you check off 40 folding chairs when you haven't actually delivered any? (and 'bout no one else in the house can drive stick) Then had to rush downtown to get film for my camera, and get a ticket for a No Right Turn on Red that I totally missed, rush back home to get changed and go pick up Elise.. (oh, and discovered that much like waiting till friday to go to the cleaners for a Sunday formal (no luck), waiting till Sunday to get a corsage for a Sunday formal is also a bad idea. last time they could make one for me on the spot, but not this time--the owner (who's best at it and knows how to design/make corsages) wasn't there and the 2 people present didn't know how. So, I got her a bouquet instead, which was actually really nice (white sweetheart roses, purple something-or-others) and probably more convenient than a corsage anyhow :)
Dinner was a bean/potato/spinach soup; filet mignon, salmon steaks, and/or pasta&veggies; twice-baked potatoes, and something else I couldn't actually define; had a bottle of Reisling and one of Zinfandel at our table--good stuff :)
Post-dinner entertainment was [don't know--some all-female a cappella group that I missed cuz the brothers had to convert dining area to dance area; no great loss, from what I could hear, and since I usually don't like all-female a cappella], and great (Class Notes, coed a cappella--always good, I have both their CDs :)
The DJs for the dance were actually pretty good--good mix of techno/dance, latin, and the occasional slow song; people wandered between the dance floor and the downstairs room (parlor, had the bar as well as coffee and dessert (chocolate cake)
And unless I interpret a series of blatant signs totally incorrectly, I have a new girlfriend. Her name's Elise :)
Drove Elise home around 1am, came back to consort with the increasingly-drunk set of people downstairs (who I could hear from 2 floor away, through a series of open doors and stairwells); with the help of Alan Morse and Tony, made sure they didn't hurt anyone or anything and attempted to direct them off to bed, which eventually worked (around 2:30.) Also drove a couple of Simon's girlfriend's friends home cuz a) they weren't sober, and b) it was 12 degrees out.
I still haven't written those two reports, though. or laid out the house budget for next semester, or done my course eval for Theater. 'course, I didn't really expect to :) (semiformal friday night, habitat most of saturday, club sat night, formal setup and formal sunday..)
