I had one of those nights last night. You know the ones - where you think it might be weird, but fun, and it turns out to be a lot more weird and a lot more fun than you had intended?
Yeah, one of those.
On Wednesday R, a member of my thesis committee, successfully defended his doctoral thesis. He's a very popular dude in the department, and so everyone was there. He did a very good job. Last night, he had a party, and, because of his unique status as both teacher and student in the department, he invited both faculty and grads to his shindig. That is bound to be a little awkward, having drinks with all your professors around. And it's a VERY small department, with a grand total of grads and profs probably coming to about 30, so everyone knows everybody else.
It turned out to be a lot of fun, though seeing Eeyore drunk was a little peculiar. I've never seen him smile so much. And he actually put his arm around Andy at one point, which he thought a might peculiar.
The weirdness started when Andy said, I think I just saw my geography prof. And he was right. Apparently R and she are very good friends, so we talked to her for a while. I think she was just as surprised as Andy was to see him there.
Then, towards the end of the night, when I'd already started yawning and had completely lost my voice from talking over the noise, I got sucked into a theoretical debate (after 6 beers) with K, the prof I TA for, and S, a prof with whom I have never spoken. I think we talked for about 2 hours and I ended up coming out of it okay. Basically I felt like I defended my life thesis and won, which is nice. Plus I think that having explained it in detail to two of the seven profs in the department is a good thing. I think most of them think I'm a little crazy because I don't want to become another product of the professor machine. But I definitely felt good about that conversation. Though I was more than a little drunk so you never know how it actually turned out. I guess I'll find out the next time I'm in the department and I run into somebody . . .
But it was a fun night. I don't usually hang around too much at school so I don't get to talk to the other grads as much as I would like, and last night was a good opportunity. Andy and I made arrangements with D and C to hang out on Wednesday, and R, whom I didn't really get to talk to much (as he was the host), asked me to get together at some point and talk about stuff. So that's something to look forward to.
I pretty much wrote off today, though. I can't drink like I used to. I wasn't hungover or anything, just that sort of tired that makes me not want to do anything other than watch crappy movies on TV. As a result, I'm slightly behind on both my cupcake making and my comps schedule, but I can make up for that another day.
Posted by Ally at April 19, 2009 08:45 PMFlunlivaelova
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