Glob dreath,
Last night was the annual law society dinner, which I paid rather extortionate amounts of money for, got dressed up, went to and came home after three hours. I don't know whether I was being silly and not giving it a chance but I just felt it was utterly pointless and I wasn't having any fun. My friend Vicky and I were on a table with a bunch of people I didn't know at all (and Vicky had heard of one of them, but never met them), while everyone else we knew was on a table together. So that wasn't a great start.
I was just looking through the photos from the night, and I think I've figured out what my problem with it was, and why I hated it so much compared to a very similar dinner on Tuesday. Aside from not knowing people, it all just felt a bit pointless. The Varsity dinner was to celebrate the ice hockey season and have fun after losing the most important matches of the year (and celebrate the one team who won). The Law Soc dinner's purpose seemed to be to take as many photos as possible showing you having lots of fun, which basically involved posing for photos. Everyone was incredibly drunk and it was really, really noisy. Also no one had told me it was black tie; I just about got away with it but I felt really awkward.
So yeah. Would drinking have helped me enjoy this? I really don't spend a lot of time with lawyers, except Vicky who sometimes comes round to chat (but we never go anywhere together) and my college mum, who wasn't even there. It's a really cliquey subject and I'm not part of the clique. Law social life seems to revolve around alcohol so that obviously isn't really my thing.
Never mind! Tonight I have a dinner with my church group people and then an ice hockey game; tomorrow I have a posh (hopefully not black tie) dinner with the ballet club. Both will be more fun because I'll know people and we have stuff in common. Yay!