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alas
21:54 / 31.01.02
... 17th-23rd february. feeling very shy about this, but i'd like to meet a few barbeloids--something fairly low key, yeah? [i feel like i'm asking you out for a date and i'm worried you're all going to say, "oh, uh, sorry we'll all be busy washing our hair that week."]
 
 
sleazenation
10:08 / 01.02.02
Don't worry about being shy, hardly any of us bite... low key is eminently doable especially if you want to meet mid-week - do you know london at all?[/LIST]
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
10:41 / 01.02.02
Absolutely!
 
 
ghadis
10:54 / 01.02.02
Would love to meet you alas and i definatley don't bite...the most you'll get is an unpleasant cross between a dribble a snort and a sneeze but i do that when i really like someone...

And my middle name is 'low key'


(no wait..thats loki actually)
 
 
alas
11:30 / 01.02.02
now i'm disappointed that none of you bite <really?>, but how cool of you all... I know London a little bit--been there 3-4 times for a week or so each time--done the touristy things (Tower, the British Museum, etc. etc.): I have a map, and I'm willing to attempt to read it. I will be busy during the first day or so, if not the whole weeek (hard to tell precisely) during business hours, on the Strand. Staying in Bayswater in a place that is so cheap I hope it doesn't have rats (at least not in full view, anyway. but I'm willing to share with polite rats. Are rats in london polite?)

what about a midweek early evening in a pub?.. and i won't be offended if you go off to meet real life friends after an hour or so. or if you just say, 'gosh, look at the time, must be going ...'
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
11:37 / 01.02.02
Ha! At a Barbelith meeting? A likely story.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
12:46 / 01.02.02
I've got a bit of time off round then but am not sure if I'm going to be in London or Sheffield, so maybe I'll get back to you nearer the time.
 
 
Shortfatdyke
13:02 / 01.02.02
alas - would love to meet you! cholister is also up for this. which day?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
13:10 / 01.02.02
I would also be delighted to meet ya, alas. Good pubs near the Strand, anyone? (Please don't say the Chandos...)
 
 
sleazenation
13:18 / 01.02.02
Well there's the chesire cheese which is lovely old english pub all low beams and cavernous catacombs ... but its more of the fleet st. end of the strand (nearest tube- blackfriars) biggest bonus is that its a nice and cheap sam smith's pub
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
13:19 / 01.02.02
The Marquess of Anglesey in Covt Garden is nice, but it does tend to fill up with people going to the Royal Opera...

(.. what's wrong with the Chan.. no, on second thoughts...)
 
 
Bill Posters
13:20 / 01.02.02
Would a reactionary right-wing antifeminist like me be welcome at such an event?
 
 
Ariadne
13:23 / 01.02.02
Me too!

Be good to meet you.
 
 
Shortfatdyke
13:27 / 01.02.02
never been to the cheshire cheese but it sounds bloody marvellous! how about it, alas?
 
 
alas
13:28 / 01.02.02
bill--of course! besides, i've already spilled the beans about our mallorca trip on another thread... heh heh

well, what about Wednesday of that week? (i.e., the 20th?) What time would work for y'all?
 
 
Ariadne
13:31 / 01.02.02
The Cheddar Cheese is magic - I vote for that too. Though I felt a bit grim after being there last night with the evil beer-monster Sleaze.

And Wednesday the 20th looks good so far.
 
 
sleazenation
13:37 / 01.02.02
Ooop as ariadne points out i got the name slightly wrong - its the chedder cheese- its still cheap english pub catacomb loveliness tho' and wednesday sounds eminently doable-- isn't there another barbeperson due over in london in late feb?

hmmm by the size of the response i guess we aren't going to be massively low key...
 
 
alas
13:39 / 01.02.02
cheshire cheese it is? on wed? what time?

<in honor of the cat i leave just a smile )>
 
 
alas
13:42 / 01.02.02
argh--posts keep crossing--
cheddar cheese pub--ok?
 
 
Shortfatdyke
13:45 / 01.02.02
well, i have a slacker job - i finish at 4pm, so can be there pretty early. 6pm? too early? too late?! it's up to you....
 
 
Ariadne
13:46 / 01.02.02
No. no! It's me being stupid - it's Cheshire. At least I think so! Anyway - it's the only cheesy pub in the street.
 
 
sleazenation
13:55 / 01.02.02
So I was probably right the first time -- cheshire cheese - anyhoo- it is the cheesy one on fleet st this map should show the rough area (between new fetter lane and farringdon) http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?x=531250&y=181250&zoom=1&isp=187&ism=500&arrow=y?181,111

[ 01-02-2002: Message edited by: sleazenation ]
 
 
alas
14:10 / 01.02.02
yay--given where I have to be on the strand (royal courts of justice) it's perfect in terms of location... and I think 6ish should be fine. i will post again closer to the time, i fly away from my u.s. nest on the 16th, so i will remind folks on the 15thish, and perhaps be able to stop into a cyber-cafe type place to check in again once i'm in londonium. cheers again, all...
 
 
Ariadne
14:13 / 01.02.02
You're coming here to go to court, alas??
 
 
alas
14:21 / 01.02.02
well, it's quite a long story, but, yes. i'm not in any trouble, really--just live a complicated life...
 
 
pantone 292
15:20 / 01.02.02
yeah i'll be up for another meet, alas, esp since i'm going to be too wiped tomorrow to come out...partying tonight in celebration of passing my phd viva finalement
 
 
alas
18:28 / 01.02.02
congrats bluestocking!!!! my phd often feels like a pyrrhic victory, but completing it is STILL a great reason to party...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:38 / 01.02.02
So let me get this straight... cheese... pub... 20th Feb... gotcha.
 
 
Bill Posters
07:46 / 02.02.02
I look 4wd to it.

Alas - I hope the legal thing goes okay.

Alas and Bluestocking: congratulations!

<and, feeling mildly jealous but deeply inspired by the success of the others, gets his butt off the board and back to his PhD which has yet to be got>
 
 
alas
13:14 / 13.02.02
<still feeling sheepish>just a friendly reminder...gosh am i nervous....Cheshire cat, next wednesday, the, ummm, 20th, around 6ish...</sheepish>

looking forward to meeting anyone who cares to show up...

and thanks for the good thoughts on my court stuff--my life is a bit crazy right now. Good karma, prayer, happy thoughts, etc., all welcome....

alas...
 
 
sleazenation
13:26 / 13.02.02
CHEESE it is the chesire cheese not cat (the cheese bit was the one thing ariadne and i could agree on, despite drinkiing there the night before)

But anyway, yes we will see you there with bundles of posative energy.
 
 
Ariadne
13:33 / 13.02.02
I think the drinking of the night before was the very reason we were so confused.

See you there, alas!
 
 
alas
14:01 / 13.02.02
right right i leave a cheshire CAT smile behind just thinking about cheshire cheese.
(i seem to need some kind of mnemonic device now... cheesy cheshire catty smiley...)

(whew: just now I thought I had lost a pile of important papers that other people would be very upset if i lost. Ransacked office. Decided I was either losing my mind or had been burgled, which I wouldn't know because my office always looks vaguely post-burgled-ish...

anyway, they were locked away in a safe drawer by the department secretary....
whew. so my mind is still, seemingly, here, for now.)
 
 
grant
14:16 / 13.02.02
Cheshire Cheese is nice - on the side of the road away from the river, if I remember right. Fleet Street? Very old.

Wish I could be there too.
 
 
sleazenation
14:25 / 13.02.02
thats the one grant
 
  

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