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To catch the last possible September afternoon, next weekend we'll be in the garden of the Green Dragon down by the river from about 1pm-5pm.

The pub opens from 12pm including Lebanese street food so some people may arrive earlier.

Everyone is welcome, including partners and children if you think they'd enjoy it. If you're not in Cambridge, you're very welcome but I don't expect you, we'll make time any time you are here! :)

I have had the call

Sep. 17th, 2025 05:17 pm
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Or rather the text message to book my covid & flu vaccinations. "For 75+ and immunosuppressed". I just double-checked and "have had a blood cancer" is still top of the NHS list of qualifying conditions, so that's my armour when the GP surgery gatekeepers are like, you're too young and you might be DEPRIVING someone of this vaccine who NEEDS it. (This has been the conversation the last three times I got invited to get vaccinated, sigh, and then they get a manager to look at my medical record, and then they grudgingly admit that maybe I can has jabs.)

Date is the Saturday when all the Cambridge undergraduates arrive, so just in time. I'll mostly be avoiding students for the first couple weeks of term to let the freshers flu play out, but I will be playing ice hockey so not entirely. Also getting in and out of the city centre that day may be entertaining, probably best done on foot.

hello rabbitholes

Sep. 15th, 2025 08:00 am
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The Kpop Demon Hunters situation has progressed past "watch a second time", through "listen to soundtrack on repeat" and is now at "find and listen to as many covers and remixes of my favourite tracks as I can".

Milestone

Sep. 14th, 2025 02:28 pm
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Cambridge Kodiaks B played our first WNIHL game yesterday, against Invicta Dynamics in Gillingham. We had seven players making their WNIHL debut, including me. As team manager I'm delighted, as newbie player I had pre-game nerves for the first time in months, and the biggest smile on my face afterwards.

We lost, but that's almost not the point. Here's a team I didn't even think would exist three months ago, and we've made it happen, creating opportunities for players to grow and develop. One game down, 19 to go (and a playoff game against the North division next May to aim for ...)

Friday Five.... Armpit edition???

Sep. 13th, 2025 09:38 am
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From [community profile] thefridayfive:

1. What is your favourite fruit?

I love stone fruits like nectarines, peaches, Ranier cherries.

2. What is the last book you read?

I just finished How to Survive in a Chaotic Climate, which is a decent book with recommendations for how to come to terms with the fact that humans are destroying everything, and even if you mean well, you probably can't extricate yourself from the systems that feed it.

3. Do you like any of your school photos?

I had one good photo my senior year that was taken with the rest of the tennis team, and an individual player photo. But the latter needed a retake due to something I can't remember, and the guy who came out to retake it positioned me facing the sun, squinting, on a windy day so my hair was blowing around my face and taking off like a witch in flight and into my braces as I smiled.... thus resulted my most hated photo that my mother STILL passed out to family members. If I could claw them all back I would.

4. Do you ever blowdry your armpits to get the deodorant to dry quicker?

WHAT IS THIS QUESTION??!? What deodorant are we using that is so wet??!? The answer is no.

5. What was the last film you watched?

Probably Sinners? Which was decently good although some of the special effects were questionable.

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