{"id":762,"date":"2004-11-09T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-09T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/762"},"modified":"2004-11-09T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-09T13:26:00","slug":"my-first-dinner-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/762","title":{"rendered":"My First Dinner Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, very unofficially and off-the-cuff, I appear to have hostess-ed my first dinner party Chez Justin and Moira last night. <lj user=\"cluseau\"> and Cait, <lj user=\"sarcasma\"> and <lj user=\"sanity_clause\"> came by with some red wine, I cooked pasta and chicken with cheesy biscuits for everyone, and then a whole lot of videogaming and geeking out ensued. We made a decent stab at civilized conversation for an hour or so, but then the pull of the swords and lightsaber and XBox was too strong, and we relented. A very nice evening was had by all. I&#8217;m just sad that C&#038;C didn&#8217;t stay the night, since my pull-out guest bed and newly-purchased-by-Mummy heart-shaped pancake mould, both remain sadly unused. Another time, I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<p>Back to work this morning. Reeeeally looking forward to having Thursday off. Planning to stay home, read comics, write some reviews, read some Graham Greene, drink a lot of tea, and maybe have a bath if I&#8217;m feeling decadent enough. Watching a silly amount of bad, melodramatic television on DVD is a time-frittering standard that barely warrants mentioning. This may be the last time I see the TV being used for anything but Halo2 for a long, long while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, very unofficially and off-the-cuff, I appear to have hostess-ed my first dinner party Chez Justin and Moira last night. and Cait, and came by with some red wine, I cooked pasta and chicken with cheesy biscuits for everyone, and then a whole lot of videogaming and geeking out ensued. We made a decent stab <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/762\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}