drinkathon #2

yesterday we had our Genome Centre (the building i work in) Christmas party.. this time the party started at lunchtime 12:30 pm. it was a really good laugh.. lots of food n drink.. we sat on mother and father Christmas' laps (aka two of the lab heads who were very impressively dressed up) to recieve presents.. there was a quiz where our team (who were sad enough to call ourselves the "phd massive word up"!) proudly came last and won a jar of marmite! there were the lab-head games (very funny watching our bosses embarass themselves!), karoake (embarassing for us all.. somehow i got roped into singing "its raining men" and the spice girls song "stop".. dont ask.. =p)

Augustus (obviously dying to get his present) jumping on an unsuspecting mother Christmas...

one of the lab-head games - trying to put a 15ml falcon tube (that we use for experiments in the lab) dangled from their butts into a beer bottle!

our in-house rockstars playing cardboard guitars and singing karoake! (incidentally, we do have a REAL rockstar in our lab - adam, he's taken time out from his postdoc to go tour with this rock band!)

and wot else? hmm.. well there was excessive drinking going on.. i think i went a bit OTT yesterday, mixed so much alcohol, from gin to wine to brandy and who knows wot else.. periodically i remember going upstairs to the lab where a few of my drunken workmates were attempting to finish their experiments they started earlier (i think it was a futile attempt!) and i also remember my friend rachel and i tried to photocopy ourselves in the photocopier! (i found a picture of the side of our faces in my locker today!) apparently, so i was told by Cong my workmate today, we tried to do it several times but the first few times it didnt work cos all u could see in the photocopy was our white teeth!! i cant believe we did that.. -_-;;

the party finished around 10pm (another long haul!) and a couple of us who were left went into town to a pub called the Druids.. had more drinks til closing time then went to a club called the Gloucester. ive been there once before when i hated it, and last nite was the same! i felt quite ill by that time so i left soon after by myself.. tried to find my way home and eventually got a taxi.. and when i got home i couldnt really sleep cos i jus felt so sick! this morning i felt awful, but then my housemate gave me lemon water to cure the hangover and it was brilliant!! totally recommend it ^^ felt completely normal after that! tho i do seriously regret last nite, my worse drinking all term.. *sigh* kept apologising to everyone i saw today..

edgar in the pub *lol*