Tamsin and Rob
Me
Peter Alice Tamsin
Clue one: I almost completely only drank
one thing. Can you believe I even considered perhaps not drinking anything,
because I felt such a sense of responsibility to my revelling acquaintances.
That would have been so stupid and such a betrayal of everyone's expectations.
OK. So I drank whisky and soda and it went really well. Sometimes I just drank
soda. Once I was offered a drink and asked for soda and was given cider but
that was really good too and I don't think cider really counts as a drink to
interfere with your main drink, it's a complement to everything. Late, late in
the night I drank some claret. (Yes, I know people tend to say red wine these
days but shit man this was CLARET). Otherwise I was on the whisky 'n' soda, a
delightful drink though rumour has it it sometimes makes me verbally
aggressive. How foolish.
Clue two: I waved to people and often
got their names right. It makes you feel like royalty! I can't believe how
great that was.
Clue three: I invited all kinds of
people from all over the place. Strangest and biggest success was an old, old
schoolfriend I hadn't seen for 27 years. He had even changed his name, and I
don't know how I remembered that or even knew about it, but I did. By the time
he showed up I was reasonably drunk and effusive. It was great. My mother was
even more pleased to see him. I was amazed that he seemed so cool. In fact I
have a slight horror that I committed a terrible faux pas with another
schoolfriend who had been there, then left, then come back: I told him who'd
been there in his absence and said 'he's cooler than you AND me!' as though,
you know, it'd be easy to be cooler than you but can you imagine he's even
cooler than me. But that might just be how I remember saying that. You can't
ask someone if you spoke that way, can you, because they are unlikely to
remember you having done so unless you remind them. And additionally I would
reveal just how incredibly uncool I was (if it hadn't already been obvious) by
indicating that I'd been fretting over this uncool statement.
Clue four: introduce people to other
people regardless. I'd never thought this would work before, but it does. I
forget how social people are. I expect people to act like dogs in each other's
company, but they don't often, and that's great.
Clue five: have incredibly good bands
playing. New Estate, Origami and Pink Stainless Tail. It really was outasight.
Clue six: That's all I have time for
now. I want my afternoon tea. It's been a harrowing day correcting a journal
article, worrying over content of a seminar, trying to figure out essay marking
etc, and now I am going to an art opening in town.
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