A Curious Girl: Society Life

Matthew and I have been together six months today! That's 26 weeks, or 182 days :) (I think I should be worried that Matthew worked out 26 times 7 faster than I worked out 364 divided by 2)

Not sure where I'm going this afternoon. My school where I'm a student tutor may not need me, so I'll have to arrange something new maybe.

Sunday I went to the Dougsoc Committee meeting. Performed my role as required (toasting the deity. 'What's her name again?' 'Katie.' 'Oh... to Katie!' Someone proposed to no confidence me because I couldn't remember the deity's name... well I've never met her, so ner :P). Afterwards, we went to the fair (Waltzers and 2p machines. We each became mild gambling addicts on the 2p machines, despite the prizes being downright awful... Thankfully I decided that at the end I'd go collect my winnings (twenty pence (!) - I made about an 80% loss) and not futilely attempt to make a profit anymore.

Afterward, Chris (or MrJeff, one of Matthew's housemates for next term) and Dr. Who James and I talked for a very long time about not very much. They are both the sort of people who can talk the hindlegs off several donkeys if given half the chance (how exactly do you do that anyway?) and me being the sort of person who should probably consider doing a course in how to shut up, meant that our verbosity kept us going for ages.

I like Dougsoc. Yesterday we played 'Just a Minute', which was mostly very fun (there were a couple of 'awkward moments' shall I say... eek, but thankfully that was resolved)... The sad thing being, the members there were mostly committee (granted, the committee has seven members, some with the admittedly dubious roles of Shape rep, Sandwich Rep, and Toastmaster General), but it's still a bit insane) but Cordy, Richard, Alex and naturally Matthew (who I think is technically committee, even though his post of 'Sacrificial first year' was never properly reinstated) were all there too.

Some very fun banter. The topic being the universe, Cordy proceeded to talk about fish that you can put in your ear in order to translate different languages.

Chris countered that this was deviation as such things are not in the universe.

Gary countered that Chris couldn't prove it.

Chris countered that Cordy couldn't prove it either.

Cordy countered that they must exist, Douglas Adams said so, and we allowed her to continue.

I know this entry is turning into one of those 'Sheez, a load of names I don't really remember and stuff that doesn't really interest me.' Well... I dunno, skim read or something :)

It was nice to get to know Alex a bit. When I'd met him a couple of times before, all I really knew about him was that he loves dancing and nightclubs and he does Music Technology, and he's a 'graduate fresher'. I confess, I think I moaned about him in this diary before - well I really did misjudge this time. He has Asperger's syndrome, which means he has trouble relating to people, and Sian got him talking about it because her brother has it too. And when he's not talking about nightclubs and things, he's pretty witty, I really didn't give him enough credit.

I thought he was a bit boastful when first met him - now, I realise, to my shame, that he was just trying to be friendly. Jeez, do I feel the idiot, still I'm grateful I got to be proved wrong.

Christian Focus on Monday was pretty good - a man who runs a homeless shelter came to talk, he was really interesting. It's funny how, without really mentioning God much at all until he brought it to a close at the end, he showed such love and wisdom. And... on Saturday there's an event that sounds fun, so I decided I'll go and said I'd help out (it's at a church I've never been to - figured it was a good opportunity), and afterwards Rachel, who is organising it, asked if I'd do Night Prayer. I was mildly scared... but on the other hand, this is a sort of help I can definitely provide, I actually warned her not to tax my sense of direction (I don't know my way around well enough to help other people). To confess, I'm so pleased for entirely selfless reasons... I'm sort of flattered that she thought to ask. And it's nice to be useful. Also it'll be good to do something that I have to focus on God for, I'm a bit more focused that I was last term, but I still need to work on it.

Afterwards, we sat in the bar and talked, then Matthew arrived to see me, and he asked for sponsorship from several people for jumping off a tall building (*cackles* he's abseiling for charity) and said he felt rather unwelcome, one member of said society was particularly rude to him. *sigh* nothing's ever simple. The good thing about Dougsoc is that it has no religious or political affiliations, and a kind of unwritten policy to welcome anyone who can tolerate the madness. The only thing I'm really worried about is that the committee will become too clique-ish - I hope not - and it shouldn't on my part at least, I really like all the members (and I hope that you all will be keeping an eye on me so I don't become too puffed up with my 'committee' position!). I think Matthew does underestimate how much they like him, as well.

Aaand... I finally got last term's essay back. Apparently it was really good :D

Random word for today: intuitive

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