Hectic weekend just gone. Yesterday I drove down to Oxford for hilarityallen's birthday party; partied, stayed overnight in a B&B, then next day drove the remaining group out to Uffington White Horse where we did a six-mile walk. Just come back to Cambridge.

Put like that, it doesn't sound too hectic, does it? Well, it gets a lot more so when you're transporting a different passenger in each direction of the journey, several other people have entrusted luggage to you that would have been more hassle to take on the train/bicycle, that luggage is again different in each direction of the journey, and you couldn't be bothered to travel light so you threw everything into the car and reckoned you'd sort it out when you got there. The logistics alone were as much effort as anything else in the whole weekend :-)

Made a welcome change from the week just past, though, in which I've mostly been spending my evenings at home sulking. (In principle what I was doing was avoiding the beerfest because I couldn't be bothered with the crowds and chaos, but in practice I think ‘sulking’ is a much better word for what it felt like.) I spent a lot of time working out some general annoyance on the GameCube, until Friday evening when the GameCube made worrying-sounding noises and then crashed. This didn't help my mood either! So it was just as well to get away from absolutely everything and have a weekend somewhere completely different. Now I'll see if I can start being usefully sociable again…