Thursday, September 16, 2004
Dramatic Cambridge Finale
So I spent the weekend in Cambridge and crashed into a hell of a crazy Friday.
Started off meeting the new Magdalene MBAs: Jason, Martin & Colin. Fine chaps; along with Robert I'm sure they'll make a good impression with the Magdalene lot. I was supposed to spend half an hour chatting; instead I took two hours to run through a list of 40 points which represented the accumulated wisdom of my year here. I wish I had that kind of thing when I started. i hope it gets them off to a good start.
I then just caught the IT guy and spent an hour installing my new web collaboration software that I recently developed, called CollaMBA, on the Judge servers and finished just in time to rush to my long-overdue meeting with the careers advisor. That lasted for two hours and I think we can safely say her foot met my backside a number of times.
I had parlour dinner pretty soon after that. What do you know, I had forgotten my suit, tie, the works, but I managed to borrow one from Nate and rushed off to formal, arriving half way through the starter. Well, we had a fine meal and the port flowed pretty freely afterwards, I can tell you. Martin and Colin turned up afterwards to meet the MCR and I introduced them around; they took to it like ducks to water.
I spent the next couple of nights at a friends and on Sunday we had the semi-finals and finals of the Magdalene croquet tournament. My partner James could't play, so I made arrangements with Donal at Friday dinner. But he couldn't make it in the end so I grabbed Simon and we played Andy and his partner and all was well again.
Well, we got off to a slow start and to be honest never quite recovered, especially against Andy's many hours of practice. However, Simon and I decided to give the crowd a few treats and we went for some dramatic shots, which certainly got the crowd going and got the opposition pretty upset. In the end it wasn't enough, and we lost honourably, it has to be said. The only consolation is that Andy and co. went on to beat the porters in te final, which took some doing, as they put in a lot of practice.
Well, a lovely weekend in Cambridge, among friends, good food, decent weather and lots of laughs. Exactly how much better does it get?
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Started off meeting the new Magdalene MBAs: Jason, Martin & Colin. Fine chaps; along with Robert I'm sure they'll make a good impression with the Magdalene lot. I was supposed to spend half an hour chatting; instead I took two hours to run through a list of 40 points which represented the accumulated wisdom of my year here. I wish I had that kind of thing when I started. i hope it gets them off to a good start.
I then just caught the IT guy and spent an hour installing my new web collaboration software that I recently developed, called CollaMBA, on the Judge servers and finished just in time to rush to my long-overdue meeting with the careers advisor. That lasted for two hours and I think we can safely say her foot met my backside a number of times.
I had parlour dinner pretty soon after that. What do you know, I had forgotten my suit, tie, the works, but I managed to borrow one from Nate and rushed off to formal, arriving half way through the starter. Well, we had a fine meal and the port flowed pretty freely afterwards, I can tell you. Martin and Colin turned up afterwards to meet the MCR and I introduced them around; they took to it like ducks to water.
I spent the next couple of nights at a friends and on Sunday we had the semi-finals and finals of the Magdalene croquet tournament. My partner James could't play, so I made arrangements with Donal at Friday dinner. But he couldn't make it in the end so I grabbed Simon and we played Andy and his partner and all was well again.
Well, we got off to a slow start and to be honest never quite recovered, especially against Andy's many hours of practice. However, Simon and I decided to give the crowd a few treats and we went for some dramatic shots, which certainly got the crowd going and got the opposition pretty upset. In the end it wasn't enough, and we lost honourably, it has to be said. The only consolation is that Andy and co. went on to beat the porters in te final, which took some doing, as they put in a lot of practice.
Well, a lovely weekend in Cambridge, among friends, good food, decent weather and lots of laughs. Exactly how much better does it get?
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