An interesting weekend; a shitty Tuesday
Posted by erin at August 31, 2004 07:18 PMThis weekend I did a lot of fun stuff. On Friday I went to our company picnic at one of the partner's houses in Westchester. They bussed a bunch of us up there. I was kinda worried because none of my work-friends were going, due to a variety of excuses/reasons. But the lure of free lobster and alcohol was very strong, so I went to the picnic grudgingly. Despite myself, I had a nice time and talked to a lot of people I don't talk to very much, and met some people whom I hadn't talked to before.
Then I was back in the city Friday night in time for the ridiculous Critical Mass bike parade. It happens every month, but it's usually not 5,000 people (it's usually around 200 by my estimation, and 1,000 if you read the papers). Also the bike route is usually fixed and the parade short. This seemed to be neither, in that it went on for hours and there were a lot of angry altercations between cars and bikes.
N. and I ate at "Kenka" an excellent new restaurant on St. Mark's. Its the one with the giant tanuki statue out front. It was super-good and super cheap. I might post my full review here later.
Then we went to our new friend Zoe's belated housewarming party. She has an amazing apartment in the heart of Chinatown, with a couple of roommates. The place was huge inside - not really what I'd expect from Chinatown. She found it on craigslist. Zoe invited an interesting mix of people whom even N., who hates most people, had a good time talking to. Eventually the party moved up to the roof, which was very nice indeed.
On Saturday we played D&D, and played with Ken, and watched Horus, Prince of the Sun sometimes known as "Hols" or "The Little Norse Prince". The movie was super-great, but untranslated, so Kerry translated it on the fly, and did a decent job of it (as far as any of us could tell, anyway).
According to Maggie the D&D game was "super awesome". Even though, in Dan's words, we may have "gotten our asses handed to us." N. was very pleased, despite coming back with nearly everyone in the party blinded and at one or fewer hit points.
On Sunday while other people were protesting, N. and I went to Eugene's and watched Shaolin Soccer, which neither of us had seen before. It was super-good. Then we went to the Bohemian Beer Garden, where that guy who was going to kick N.'s ass was totally absent, so we were able to drink there after all, with people you might remember from other places, namely Joan and Anthony.
Monday was largely uneventful, except that Megazone 23 was on the Anime Network. Damn, it was pretty good, although it appeared to be Part 1 of a two part movie of some sort.
Tuesday has sucked ass. The start of my new job has been delayed for another week, throwing a monkey wrench into N. and I's plan to go to WorldCon. We probably won't get to go at all, now, which is upsetting, since I've been looking forward to it for like, eight months. WorldCon is freaking expensive. I mean, admission alone breaks the bank, never mind food and travel.
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September 1, 2004 12:48 PM, N. said:
I was also outed by a co-worker as a "non-Democrat" and have been made to feel the brunt of their spite and resentment. It has been unpleasant.
September 1, 2004 03:48 PM, Maggie said:
Any D&D game that involves dungeons and/or dragons is always super awesome.
Super awesome is how I'd describe Shaolin Soccer as well. I am learning kung fu to use it in real life - parallel parking will never thwart me again! My favorite part was that you know the bad guys are bad because the team they're on is "Team Evil".
September 6, 2004 10:38 PM, Dan said:
I don't think we got our asses handed to us in the game mentioned in this post. I think we won a moderate victory, and considering how bad we blew it right in the opening, we did pretty good.
I don't want to think about what would have happened if we didn't have that con. dark stone.
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