Pavlovian conditioning

[karen2205]

You know, I think I'm acquiring that hugely self indulgent thing called a social life:-)

First I had lunch with hairyears, which was lovely - though the service could have been quicker.... Then this evening neonchameleon, mstevens and wuluf turned up for Coffee in Borders. We didn't go out for dinner, but had a nice time chatting about geeky stuff and politics and music and everything in between.

The next Coffee in Borders will be on 4th January. AFAI am aware no one is about next Tuesday (28th Dec).

I have an idea which I'll expand on in a filtered post that requires a cassette or CD of balloon bursting noises. A *pint* or *chocolate* or some other prize to the first geek who manages to send me one.

I'd love some suggestions for LiveJournals you think I should be reading.

Absolute classic: 'Just because it's called the Book at Bedtime doesn't mean you should have been in bed for the past hour.... BBC Radio 4 is not your Nanny'

Comments

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Sorry I missed that - was at an interview. Then packing, then a train to Leicester.

Hmmm.... have I met wuluf? A quick peek at the journal suggests I missed an interesting and entertaining conversationalist.

Ah well - see you all on January 4th, or maybe sooner: what are people doing for New Year's Eve?

[karen2205]

Hope you made it to Leicester without too many delays.

wuluf has been along to some of the other Coffee in Borders evenings, though I've a feeling he's left before you've arrived. And yes, you did miss lots of interesting conversation (in an I'm sorry you weren't there way, rather than a gloating way);-)

New Year's Eve - I'm tossing up (a) going to my Mum's house, (b) being anti social and staying at my place, (c) going to Marna's party and (d) an OxIRC thing.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Diva, Liz and I intend to make it to Marna's party, assmuming that (a) I don't get stranded in Wales if it snows, (b) Liz's health is up to it, and/or (c) Diva doesn't go down with a repeat of the flu which prevented us from attending last year.

[karen2205]

*crosses fingers* that neither (a), (b) or (c) happen:-)

[wuluf.livejournal.com]

I think we have met at borders but it was a while ago. feel free to add me and I will add you back. New years eve have not got a clue what we will be doing.

[karen2205]

And, yes, you should update more often:-)

[wuluf.livejournal.com]

I will update later tonight

[blackrat.livejournal.com]

BBC Radio 4 is nifty though :)

[karen2205]

Very nifty:-) Anything that can make me giggle at both 0.59am and 7.30am is by definition nifty;-)

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Two of the standard four people I would recommend are already on your Friends list (he said, being annoyingly cryptic to avoid ego boosts, and also so that you can have the fun of guessing which two I mean) - the other two I would recommend are the astonishingly erudite yet tremendously pithy addedentry and wayfairer, a titan around whom much of LJ revolves as a direct result of her creativity, enthusiasm and perception.

[karen2205]

Hmm - will look again in a few days but I don't see anything titanesque about wayfairer's journal at the moment. I see slash, lemmings, a rant about Iraq and a pasted IRC/IM/PM conversation.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Well, it's definitely true that a lot of her good stuff is Friends-only, but more than half of the lemmings are (a) far more imaginitive than most and (b) genuinely original. I firmly stick by my top-few view.

[neonchameleon.livejournal.com]

At this time of year, ixwin's adventcalendar. (Ixwin herself is also generally worth reading). If she ever updates, gnimmel is extremely interesting (and it's well worth going back through her entries).

[karen2205]

Thank you - I'd have never remembered all those usernames.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

bisonwife and bisonbaby. And you might get a kick out of young_visiters although not much has been posted there yet.

[karen2205]

Are you trying to make me go all broody...?:-)