About Last Night

[andrewducker]

Lilian had a few friends over (none of whom are on LJ, as far as I know) for a dinner party. She made some amazing food - including what was basically bread and butter pudding, only with some kind of Pannetone (Italian sweet bread) and a sauce made from butter, brown sugar and syrup - I practically went into glycemic shock being in the same room as it. The conversation was great (half the people there were either lawyers, legal academics or other academics) and we ended up chatting until 1am about everything from traumatising films (Titus, Watership Down and Requiem for a Dream being the ones I recall) to whether laws were occasionally broken down and rebuilt according to new epistomologies. In other words, exactly the kind of thing that I love and many other people run screaming from. Oh, and we also covered Scotland and its opinion of itself, which is quite apposite considering this story in the Observer today about the Scots love of failure.

Today is a much slower day, consisting largely of frivolously searching for cool tech - for no other reason that I felt like it.

Hmm, couldn't remember the word 'frivolously' there, my quick search for the right word (before trashcanglam put me right) did indicate that 'decadent' was a pejorative term. Silly me, I've always rather enjoyed being decadent.

Comments

[sneakingyoda.livejournal.com]

And! your icon rocks.

[andrewducker]

Cheers, I stole it this morning (well, the person involved had just given permission to a random stranger to copy it, so I copied it too). Apparently it's a skin from a Half-Life 2 mod.

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

Yup, I have no interesting comment to make, but I must agree that that is a very cool icon (and does this mean someone's done a Lego-themed HL2 mod ? I may just have to get around to buying it sometime soon if that's the case ... ).

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

Dude, that's the kind of party that brings me complete bliss. Makes me wish I'd been there. Especially with what Lillian made. Mmmmmm.

Yes, I agree: your icon is rather cool.

Traumatising movie: E.T.

Scots may love "failure", but apparently the typical American loves humiliation and apathy. I mean, look at us.

Love,
A.

[opusfluke.livejournal.com]

The icon is marvellous but I myself have always enjoyed being debauched. I have no idea what a bauch is or what it does but I seem to be doing rather well without it...