Wow...

[mousme]

Here I am on firewillow's LJ, updating on the weekend for the first time in nearly a month.

It feels odd, especially since I'm not used to her keyboard and keep making bizarre typos. The keys just don't offer the same resistance as the ones at work or the ones on my old Julius (the iBook that was stolen on Labour Day weekend).

Still, her computer is Pretty Damned Fast, and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to do some updating while the memories from yesterday and today are still fresh in my mind.

I left work yesterday feeling really quite crappy. My throat was sore, my head hurt, and I was feeling distinctly light-headed. Nonetheless I found a convenient parking spot not too far from the Faubourg and ventured into Pharmaprix to buy some candy for curtana's birthday party, scheduled for about 7:30, although I had misunderstood and thought it was at 7:00.

I grabbed a burger at the Faubourg food court, where I met up with a couple travelling with an American tour group. Once again, I was appalled at this remarkable means of exploring the world. They were an older couple from Florida, and they had spent two days in Toronto, two days in Quebec and were spendimg less than 24 hours in Montreal. Naturally, their tour guide told them to grab a bite to eat at the Faubourg, because it's really the kind of memory of Montreal you want to cherish. They got a two-hour tour of Old Montreal, and saw, in the woman's words "some real nice cathedral, I don't remember its name, but it was really pretty."

I managed to at least refer them to a decent downtown restaurant, then wandered down to Benix to get curtana some mugs for her birthday. Thus armed I made my way to her apartment, where I found her, forthright and gats watching MST3K. As a first introduction, it was really quite scarring. I will refrain from commenting further, but suffice it to say that that movie was really really scary and wrong on so many levels. Especially since the person meant to be playing a man was very ostensibly a woman.

'Nuff said.

The party started out really well. blackbuffet was there with his girlfriend, as was our friend the lich, narmical, joane, shenlo, miseri, and of course dgwyn as well as sorceror and CL, another friend of ours from the McGill Gamers' Guild.

Lively discussions revolved mostly around campaigns past, present and future (Charles, you as good as promised you'd run a game. Just give us a time and date already!"), as well as good times shared by the various Guild members over the years.

I left for about half an hour to drive Poms home so he could get to bed reasonably early for his funeral today, and returned to find people considerably drunker than I had left them. Curtana in particular had consumed the better part of a bottle of tequila by herself. Joane and Shenlo had left around nine to fetch Joane's father from the train station. Forthright and Sorceror got into a heated, if drunken, debate which started out as a weird debate on libertarianism and whether, if one were to condemn abortion and contraceptives, one would not be morally obligated to at least tolerate infanticide.

Anyway, I'm not going to go further into the discussion (I'm sure Gats' "Sober Review" will sum it up better than I ever could) for the same reasons I don't as a rule reply to Forthright's "provocative" posts.

Suffice it to say the conversation got progressively more drunken and less coherent but more rhetorically interesting as the evening wore on. The Lich and I amused ourselves by quietly poking fun at the conversation from our end of the sofa. Still, I was unamused by Forthright's bringing my father into the conversation at one point and making fun of his politics. I put it off to his being really extraordinarily drunk (no matter how much he protested to the contrary), but I was still unamused.

I extricated myself around 2am, leaving just as the two litres of tequila caught up with Curtana and she was sick on the table. It was an unfortunate way to end her birthday, but I hope she had fun up until then. I hesitated before leaving, thinking that Curtana might need some help, but concluded that Forthright had things well in hand.

I got home at about 3am, and spent the night with my cats cuddled up close.

Spent the whole day today with firewillow (luv ya babe, muah!) and bought far too much stuff for my own good, but had an absolute blast. Am now watching Buffy with her.