Categories: uncategorized
Date: 13 May 2007 02:35:22
A conversation I regularly have with one of my colleagues on Friday afternoons:
Colleague: "Have you got anything planned for this weekend, Ste?"
Me: "Not really, I think it's just going to be a quiet one."
Colleague: "Well, you say that, but you always seem to end up getting an invitation from one of your friends and doing something interesting, don't you?"
She's absolutely right. For all the weekends where I have nothing much planned, something big comes up in about three quarters of them. Take tonight for instance. I was expecting to spend my evening witnessing the undoubted horror of Eurovision. But around 6.00, my plans changed...
My extremely musically talented housemate has been part of the band playing in the local uni's production of 'A Chorus Line' all week, and owing to several nights out this week I didn't expect I would make it to see the production. But then I found out he was getting tickets for some friends, and the invitation was extended to me to join them for that and then go for a curry afterwards. Bang goes another quiet Saturday night in then...
Not really knowing anything about 'A Chorus Line' except that it was a musical and probably involved a chorus line of some sort, I really enjoyed watching the action unfold with no idea of what was going to happen. For those who are similarly unfamiliar with it, it's about dancers auditioning for a Broadway show; at the request of the show's director, each one relates their life story and tells of how they got into dancing and what they expect will happen to them after their careers finish. The cast were fantastic, and really kept your attention (no mean feat in a show which largely takes place on a bare set without costume changes etc), and the band were pretty good too.
Then we headed to what I consider to be the best curry house around here, although I don't tend to go there that often as there's a perfectly decent one just round the corner from my house. Anyway, as they weren't too busy the staff took a lot of time chatting to us and kindly gave us some free onion bhajis, causing them to go up even further in my estimation. We had a great time talking together and laughing rather a lot, and I realised how much I'm going to miss these guys - they've been studying in the UK since the autumn, and are going back to the US in a little over a week. They're amazing and lovely people, and it seems like I've always known them; I just wish I'd spent as much time hanging out with them as my housemate has.
So, I have another interesting tale of unexpected adventures to tell my colleague on Monday morning. And I'm sure she won't be in the least bit surprised. After all, this kind of thing always happens when I'm having a quiet one...