(no subject)

[danohu]

Just back from London, dripping wet (Cambridge station is very, very in the wrong place!) but happy. Will probably write about it in dribs and drabs [1], but for now I'm going to have a binge of friending people who I befriended at the_alchemist and verlaine's housewarming.

And while my head's in Saturday, I might as well say it was fantastic, in a way that events usually are when they're full of fascinating people I don't know. Since the thing was organised on lj, I'd spotted a couple of people I'd been aware of for some time without ever talking to: smhwpf, libellum, and verlaine himself. So, of course, they were the people I didn't talk to at all, and instead chatted excitedly to squirmelia, pseudomonas, publicansdecoy, angelofthenorth, and robert_jones. Also a couple of others who will now be written out of history because they don't use livejournal, or because they use it but have non-memorable names [2]. So it goes.

I'm now 5 days behind on lj, and won't be doing more than skimming back through it. If there's anything you'd particularly like me to see, point!

[1] Yes, I can use silly phrases if I want to

[2] I know, I know, oedipamaas49 is about as bad as it gets on those criteria. I've been regretting it for 18 months now, and I'll be changing it just as soon as I can come up with something better. Suggestions welcome :)

Comments

[nina321.livejournal.com]

Do you know why Cambridge Station is placed where it is?

[oedipamaas49.livejournal.com]

Only that people generally blame the university. But blame the university for anything that happens in cambridge, and you'll be right 9 times out of 10.

[nina321.livejournal.com]

They put it there so that the students wouldn't be as tempted to leave the city as it was a bit far to walk!

Hilarity.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_catharine_/]

I can in all seriousness believe that.

[nina321.livejournal.com]

I believe it. I heard it on the big red open top tour bus.
I have no reason to not believe it since a lot of the stuff they said I knew to be true.

Kinda made me laugh at the stupidity though, because even if you walk, it's really not that far!

[i-am-marky.livejournal.com]

Positioning of train stations is usually based on the quality, type, height etc. etc. of the land when the track is originally laid, which can make it impossible to have a station in the city centre without massive cost and damage to surrounding areas.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

I don't think there *was* a libellum there, you know!

Lovely to (almost) meet you, in any case...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I can't *spell* your name, but certainly consider it distinctive.

[publicansdecoy.livejournal.com]

Hallo!

-x-