A Long-Expected Party

So anyway, that Very Special Birthday Party I mentioned a while ago?

It's John Cleese's.

See, I signed up to the "please tell me when your website will launch" mailing list, and three weeks ago I found a special invitation in my inbox asking me to "join us for coffee, pastries, laughs and a very special ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate Mr. Cleese's assault on cyberspace!" They've randomly selected a small number of people to invite and I happened to be one of them. Which is nice.

I'm allowed to bring a guest on condition that we both wear silly hats, so I gave Kevin the task of finding two silly hats. I've apparently opted for a baseball cap with a stuffed seagull on the top, though I've never seen it. Don't worry, you'll get pictures :-)

The only downside is that it's in London on Wednesday morning, so I'll have to spend 3 or 4 hours on buses and trains on Tuesday evening, get up fairly early to attend the launch party, and then do the 3 or 4 hours back the other way, and hopefully get back before it's too dark. And bring enough books for the journey, and hope that my iPod battery lasts.

Wednesday is also the day that our first programming coursework is due in (the classic robot-in-a-maze) and we have to go in for an 'interview' with the marker to answer questions about the code and so on. So I've asked to do that on Tuesday morning instead, which just gives me a little less time to complete it...

On the plus side though, I'm going to John Cleese's 65th birthday party :-)