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Happy New Year to you all!

Party with Jörg's ex-co-students was surprisingly enjoyable. I had been rather worried that I'd feel bored and out of place between all the 40-something chemistry Ph.D.s - grown-up, non-nerdy company, ewww!
The grown-up, non-nerdy 40-something scientists spent most of the meal (fondue, mmmmmmh) talking about Firefly, Indiana Jones, Highlander, the Thursday Next books, and whether or not there is chemistry between Luke Skywalker and Han Solo. Also, one of them is writing a werewolf novel and has two SciFi novels published (that refuse to sell, but oh well.).
Go figure.

After the meal we went to the Cathedral to watch some fireworks (amazingly enough, nobody managed to smash the huge windows with their fireworks, though certainly not for lack of trying); after the fireworks we played SuperMario Kart and CloneWars: Lightsaber Duels on the host's Wii.
(There are few things more humiliating than seven grown-up people sitting around a TV set waving their Wii-motes in avid concentration. Can't look dignified while you're having fun...)

Somehow I'd thought grown-up, non-nerdy scientist company would be more difficult to socialise with.

Hope you all had a good party, or, if you live in some timezone in which it's still 2008, have a nice party ahead of you!








Date: 2009-01-01 03:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lene-de.livejournal.com
Frohes Neues Jahr auch für dich.

Date: 2009-01-01 04:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eliathanis.livejournal.com
Tooolle Fotos! War bestimmt sehr voll oder?

Frohes Neues! *knuddel*

Date: 2009-01-01 12:31 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] oloriel.livejournal.com
Geht so - die Domplatte selbst war leer, drum herum standen natürlich viele Grüppchen, aber nicht so viele, dass man sich nicht bequem hätte bewegen können. Man musste nur aufpassen, keine Raketen an den Kopf zu kriegen, weil mehrere Idioten meinten, die könne man doch auch prima in der Hand halten beim Start, und nicht bedacht haben, dass man die Hand eben nie ganz ruhig hält, schon gar nicht, wenn kurz davor ein Zündkörper startet... *augenroll*
Aber es war relativ wenig Feuerwerk - aber vielleicht wirkte das auch nur zwischen den Häuserschluchten so. Vom Dach aus hatte man ja immer einen guten Überblick ;)

Date: 2009-01-01 12:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vout.livejournal.com
Aber es war relativ wenig Feuerwerk - aber vielleicht wirkte das auch nur zwischen den Häuserschluchten so
Also ich dachte ja, wir sehen nur nicht mehr vom Feuerwerk wegen der ganzen Rauchentwicklung, aber gemeinhin war bei uns auch die Meinung, dass es relativ wenig was.

Date: 2009-01-01 12:45 pm (UTC)
ext_45018: (heavenly creatures)
From: [identity profile] oloriel.livejournal.com
Hm. Macht sich da doch die Wirtschaftskrise bemerkbar? Oder die chinesische Produktionspause?

Date: 2009-01-01 12:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gaharr.livejournal.com
Klingt nach einem netten Abend in netter Gesellschaft.

Frohes neues.

Date: 2009-01-01 12:32 pm (UTC)
ext_45018: (42)
From: [identity profile] oloriel.livejournal.com
Jo, war es - aber den hattet ihr doch sicher auch ;)

Dir ebenfalls!

Date: 2009-01-01 02:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eruannath.livejournal.com
Happy New Year to you too! :D
The pics are beautiful. Fireworks by a Cathedral? That must be a nice thing to watch.

Date: 2009-01-01 02:29 pm (UTC)
ext_45018: (joy!)
From: [identity profile] oloriel.livejournal.com
Especially by that cathedral, which is a gigantic beautiful thing if you are into soaring Gothic architecture. :D

Although there were more fireworks in past years - and it's actually even nicer to watch them from a certain distance (a roof nearby, say, or one of the bridges over the river Rhine) so you can see all the fireworks around the central city and cathedral, not just the bit that gets shot up right in front of the building ;)

Thank you!

Date: 2009-01-01 02:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fuchs.livejournal.com
Uih, tolle Fotos! Dir auch ein Frohes Neues!!

Date: 2009-01-01 02:36 pm (UTC)
ext_45018: (joy!)
From: [identity profile] oloriel.livejournal.com
Danke und danke ^___^

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