Good Weekend: Friday

It was a good weekend.
Friday began with some Good Work News, and proceeded with a healthy dose of Spending Damon’s Money, a bout of Coffee With Friend, and finished with something I’d been looking forward to for some time: The Whisky. Frank, Jarratt, Matt M and myself gathered at Jarratt & Evie’s place and drank many kinds of whisky and chatted in a civilised fashion, and it was bloody marvellous. Frank writes well of The Whisky on his LJ, here, giving due respect to the ancient and revered ThisWayThatWay system and the wonders of the Sicilian Horn.
But before I departed to The Whisky, there was one more big positive. I received an email from Edinburgh, alerting me to a bunch of short movies available for my downloading and viewing pleasure. Hardly able to believe my eyes, I watched as the title rolled up on the main feature, a 6 minute short entitled: Rumpus 06: The Edinburgh Footage. I watched as my dear friends in my other home town made their contribution to the Rumpus, with the balancing, the giggling, the catatonia, the toilet, the dubious BMI information, the arranging and the rearranging and, and, and…
Seriously, I just about cried, from the laughter and also the sheer amount of missingness going on. And I just watched it all again and almost cried again. (My name was even written how I like to write it. No-one else has ever put the line on the o before.) I was completely stunned. I still am, actually.
It was awful to leave my friends in Edinburgh behind. If I’d been going anywhere but here I don’t think I could have done it. It’s one of the curses of the traveller – if you do it right, you condemn yourself to sadness for the rest of your life, because you can never be in all the places you want to be.
But, hell, to have such people in my life as I have, it’s worth it.
Thanks, Gregor, Malc, Cat, John, Steve. I miss you incredible. You made my week, and considering how good the rest of my week was, that’s really saying something.
So that was Friday. Saturday… it was time for the rumpus. That’s the next post.