an effort at seriousness

i finally hauled myself to the university yesterday and even managed to go to a class! amazing, isn't it? i would like to be able to do such things more often, but given my work shedule it is almost impossible....and i do have to eat after all...
the professor was really nice...although i was not overly impressed with the other students in the class. there seemed to be more regurgitation that analysis coming from them.
afterwards i met justin for some food and shopping, and i owe him a big thanks for introducing me to UNIQLO. so i now have some very basic, but i imagine useful, items so that i can look at least somewhat decent for work.
afterwards i met gabor in the phd lab. we had a gossip and then went to the departments postgrad welcome party. what a nightmare that was....well gabor and i decided to at least exploit the moment to the fullest and proceeded to (over)indulge on the free wine and crisps....actually we left when the free wine finished, which we realised was tacky....but there was really no other reason to stay in an overpriced pub with people we didnt really want to be talking to. the other postgrads are boring and overly serious. they all saw me and gabor as exotics who had fallen in front of them. we retreated to a corner...then some professor who clearly adhered to the roksandic approach of professor-student relations came over and started to talk to me and the girl who was next to me, ignoring gabor. when we left the party we saw the same professor chatting up a tall blond, i guess he was trying to seduce her with the mysteries of....medieval poland?the programme director wandered over to talk to us as well. when he established that i was in fact the daughter of his old leningrad state university dorm mate, he started to ask questions about my dad. i said that he had retired, to which my illustrious programme director respond "gosh i didnt realise he was so much older than i am" i dont think my father would b terribly happy to hear such news, especially as i dont think the age difference is in fact so great....so the wine finished and gabor and i beat a quick retreat....