Feb. 22nd, 2008

Update

Feb. 22nd, 2008 08:36 am
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I realise I haven't updated in a while...boo on me.

Monday through Wednesday at work were pretty forgettable. I cleaned up my email and basically waited to be released. Everyone was polite and some were very complimentary. Tuesday evening we went to Tate Britain to the private showing of the Camden Town Group exhibition. (Walter Sickert is probably the best known of the bunch). I enjoyed it--my criteria for an exhibitions I like is whether I find paintings I'd like to hang in our house. We had dinner beforehand at the local Witherspoon's pub--before the smoking ban we would not have even considered it. I had a steak (kind of tough) and HWMBO had salmon (which he liked). He had coffee and I had Diet Pepsi. So a very wholesome day indeed.

Wednesday night I had a disagreeable meeting at the Diocese--not because of the participants, because of the occasion. I was a panel member of an appeal tribunal against dismissal of an employee. I can't say anything about it, but I do hope that it doesn't happen very often or ever.

Yesterday and today I'm working at home. Last night we went to dinner with my former boss from the Big Investment Bank and his partner; they are also a mixed-race gay couple, Caucasian/Chinese. His partner is from Taiwan, and has been here a few years longer than I have. He is a musician and teacher, and all four of us had a rousing conversation that went on from about 7:30 until 10:30 at a Chinese restaurant on Gerrard Street in Chinatown. The food was good (I ordered stuffed tofu which was fabulous, along with hot and sour soup which was very good). We got through two bottles of Chateauneuf de Pape, which was surprising. We walked to Tottenham Court Road afterwards, us for the number 1 bus, they for the Central Line. We will be meeting again, and I think that out of the wreckage of our involvement with the BIB project, we have salvaged a new friendship, which is always a good thing.

Tonight we're going out with [livejournal.com profile] trawnapanda and [livejournal.com profile] dangtri, thus forming what soc.motsseurs will refer to as a "three Chris .con". Pictures will ensue. [livejournal.com profile] trawnapanda is visiting from Toronto; he participated in a meeting around detailing successful engagement between the Church and lesbian and gay organisations and people. He was accompanied by an archdeacon and an archbishop (retired). Such august company.
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For the soc.motsseurs among us, there was an extremely rare event this evening: a three Chris .con. Chris A, [livejournal.com profile] trawnapanda, was in town for an Anglican meeting, and Chris W, [livejournal.com profile] dangtri, who lives in town, joined me for the first Three Chris .con. Pictures were taken, and here are two:



and, with Chris W. moving to the other side of the camera, two Chrisses and an HWMBO:



There was much quotation from Douglas Adams and Monty Python, and we nearly closed the restaurant.

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