Fractionals

So last night I spent part of the evening (after spending far too long writing my second Plato paper, which I finished off today) with my lovely fellow MA Seminar students. We just sort of informally decided to get the nine of us together and have a pot luck, which was easily the best one I've ever attended (in terms of food). I had assumed we'd be ending things pretty early, but things were so entertaining I didn't get in until around 4. The menu, of which everything was astoundingly delicious:

Greek salad
Chicken and vegetable and almond and mushroom curry (this was me)
Pesto with tofu, sundried tomatos, artichokes and mushrooms
Homemade pizza
Non-homemade pizza with fancier stuff on it
Macaroni and cheese
Scalloped potatoes

and for dessert:

Chocolate shells filled with mousse (chocolate or vanilla), covered in ice cream and with Bailey's and chocolate liqueur poured over it
More ice cream

I had a couple of beers with dinner, but it was about 1 am after a couple of the guys had left when Nate, our host, broke out the bottle of port which we subsequently polished off that I figured I'd just stay until everybody left. I am extraordinarily lucky in terms of who's in the program with me this year; they're an exceptional bunch, a hell of a lot of fun to hang out with, and I think I'm having them all over to my place next week.

(and if you're on Facebook, there are some pictures here)