rjw57's Journal: *yawn* -- again

It was Girton Spring Ball last night. Yet again I am reminded that I am an old man and much prefer eating early, having fun and chatting with random people whilst sitting down to partying all night, dancing 'til I'm sick or drinking so much I turn into super-prat.

It was fairly good. All the food was in one place which seemed a Silly Thing (TM) but the ents were OK. The stand-up comedy was mixed. Basically the compere guy was trotting out the same routinge for the n'th time and the comedians themselves were often one trick ponies. One of these ponies also triggered my pet hate. Asian comics that just make 'I'm Asian and people are racist to me jokes'. Yes, OK, they are funny and yes it is probably very good for the sufferers of racism to turn it around into something positive like comedy but I couldn't help feeling that if he were to wake up tomorrow a WASP then he would totally run out of material. That troubled me...

On the plus side, looks like there might be a random comedy gig on tonight. Lots of Catholic, and probably catholic Catholic people which should necessitate a little decorum on my part. However I'm going to end up doing at least one thing that offends -- I can feel it in my water.

Finally on today's TODO list is also auditioning for Pirates for Robinson's may ball. To be honest I don't really want to get in since my experience of working at balls has been less than stellar, as has my ability to stak awake. I think I'll be using it as a practice for tonight's activities though so I think I'll be a very comedic pirate....