Family Party

[poliphilo]

I was at a family party last night- a party of three generations. The middle generation- who were all funny little kids when I married into the family- are grown up now. Nick has a husband and stepson, Jenny is in marketing and Matt is shortly off to Brunel with a doctorate under his belt.

You know the Large Hadron Collider at Geneva-  they're about to switch it on and have it replay the Big Bang? Well, Matt is going out to Cern when he's done his initial stint at Brunel. He's going to be a part of all that.

Provided, of course, that the Collider doesn't generate lots on mini black holes (as some fear it will)  which then proceed to eat the world from the inside- like weevils.

We only glimpsed him last night- blurring past the living room door on a brief visit to the kitchen. Sunday is the night he captains an international World of Warcraft team- than which nothing is more important.

It's a great little family. It accomodates eccentricity. I find I fit in.

The food's good too. Keith and Ruth are serious about food.  And Nick had brought along a fabulous orange cheescake with a ginger biscuit base.

Comments

[nostoi.livejournal.com]

You know the Large Hadron Collider at Geneva- they're about to switch it on and have it replay the Big Bang? Well, Matt is going out to Cern when he's done his initial stint at Oxford. He's going to be a part of all that.

Wow! How exciting. My husband will be so jealous. And the party sounded just the right kind of get together :) No "sitting on ceremony" and all that faff.

[mummm.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you have a fabulous family!

[ibid.livejournal.com]

mad families are rather wonderful!

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

How nice for you to be able to fit in with family like that! They must be wonderful people (of course they are, they are Ailz's, right?)
Also, they sound like fun.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I think it would be fascinating if we woke up with a big black hole in the sky.

What would we do?

I suppose Sarah Palin, the hockey mom who thinks God is on our side in this holy war, would shut down the collider as being "against God's will."

She tried to ban books in Alaska, I hear.

I guess we'll get her. She's cute. That's all we deserve these days, as we are idiots.

Remember the study done with monkeys who were offered their favorite cherry juice as a reward for a task OR the opportunity to gaze at photographs of their alpha monkeys in their group?

They LOVED cherry juice, but they always chose the photographs to gaze at.

We're doomed: we get old Alpha John McCain and his gun-toting sidekick.

I am grinding my teeth here. I've turned off the TV and stopped reading Newsweek and Time, because she's on the covers and I simply can't stand what she stands for.

I CHOOSE CHERRY JUICE, PLEASE!!

Sorry, Tony, for going off-topic. I am--distracted.

Jackie