Categories: uncategorized
Tags: London, shipmeet, friends, Glasgow, food
Date: 21 March 2009 18:54:36
This afternoon we had a meet-up of Glasgow-and-environs-based folk from Ship of Fools. We went to a Spanish tapas restaurant up in town called La Tasca and I must say the food was very nice indeed, though I am still experiencing something of a garlicky aftertaste (this is not a bad thing, because I like garlic, and as the only person I am intending to snog is probably similarly afflicted we can cancel each other out). Mostly people I knew already, but we had one new person (who is also doing a PhD in my faculty, and who has to mark essays by the same students!), a new baby and an imminent bump-soon-to-be-baby as well. Had a very useful chat with one shipmate who is a nurse as I need to get my act together about getting work for when the money runs out, it was also fun to share our colleagues-and-nursing-students horror stories as it is always reassuring to know that it's not just me that attracts the weird/useless/clueless ones.
No photos unfortunately, you'll just have to take my word for it that we all looked great!
Now I'm back I need to pack for tomorrow's adventure. I'm off to London till Monday night - staying with friends in sarf London tomorrow night so am really really looking forward to catching up with them, and then on Monday I'm going to a study day at the British Library. I've never been there before, and having looked at the various collections on-line am wondering how much of it I can sneak out of so I can look at the illuminated manuscripts and music scores and maps and stuff, as that will probably be more interesting than the stuff I'm meant to be going there for. Actually that's not true, I'll be speaking with the area subject librarians who know about Romania and stuff, so with any luck it will be really useful. I'm just a bit concerned as their online Romania collection mainly seems to be quite ancient - I hope it's not a wasted journey. Well, it won't be wasted from the social point of view, but it would be good if I can actually learn something as well while I'm there.