Formals again

I'm quite overdue an update at this point...

Formals.
1: Sidney Sussex medics' formal swap
Okay, so I've been to a few formals and parties recently; one that I'm rather glad to have left early was the formal swap with the Sidney medics - not because I have anything against them, but because I left early to meet up with other people, then heard the next morning about what had happened... mostly involving one Trinity medic being sick, one falling down a few stairs and then apparently going "Fuck it... just give me my drink," and settling there, and a Sidney medic falling down yet more stairs and managing to slice her hand open on a glass. :S

Thus I managed to miss the chaos and the possible banning from the bar. Ah well, a lot of people had a reasonably good night, anyway.


2: Richard's parents visited... again...
This was pretty much as entertaining as last time, despite some disputes about pennying rules. I'm really glad no one pennied my dessert.

I think I may have pennied at least two people dessert-wise. I'm fairly sure I pennied Richard, even though he seems to think Kieran did. Doesn't matter, he still ended up eating without hands or cutlery. I hear that people tend to think "mwahah, I'm embarrassing you in front of your parents" in those cirumstances, but I'm pretty sure that sort of thing probably just gives parents a feeling of nostalgia more than anything else.

Kieran refused to eat without hands or cutlery after his dessert had been pennied... so, to avoid the shameful event of the rules being ignored, Richard's dad fed Kieran's dessert to him. It was a thing of beauty. Terrible, messy beauty.



3: Tom Booth's birthday & after-Trinity-formal
Argh, 21 sounds very old, doesn't it...


Everyone seemed to enjoy it, and to make a reasonable mess of Corky's room. The Umpire of the current Assassins game was also there (His Lord High Maz-ness, Martin Mariusz Lester of Caius) which meant that Nick avoided having a shoot-out with me there. Or so he claims, anyway. He is also now in possession of some highly amusing video-phone footage of Steve and Tom "jiving". Yes, the famous JIVE. I encourage everyone to have a look.

This was actually on the same night as the formal with Richard and his parents; after I left the party I came back to Trinity bar and walked smack into someone from another college I'd been looking for all day...

I found the others in the (otherwise empty) JCR, where we basically started being rather childish and doing cartwheels, headstands, forward rolls, etc. - Blaise was captured by arms and legs and swung side-to-side, hammock-fashion. She makes funny noises.


And James fell asleep in Kieran's room afterwards.

4: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Very simply, if you haven't read the book, don't go to see it, you'll be incredibly confused as to why all these things are happening. Also, they make it painfully obvious who's responsible for everything from about an hour away from the "revealing the villain" scene, which annoyed me since it was completely unexpected in the book, whereas in the film it's a fairly tedious wait for confirmation of what you already guessed to finally be presented as one of those "DAH DAH DUMMMMM!" moments.

And now I feel I've lost all credibility as a reasonable film critic from the use of that phrase. :P

On the plus side, go along with equally immature ("we're almost adults, honest") friends and you have a very entertaining 157 minutes of innuendo.

I mean, it really does make you wonder whether they knew what they were doing when they okayed the final cut. Did they leave these bits in to amuse the parents, or something..?

Oh, and afterwards Nick and I had a "shoot-out". Yes, observe the quotes. They are there to indicate FARCE. :D