a night with the kings

i've been waiting since like, last may, for the premiere of lost and i was really excited because it was supposed to run on friday nights here beginning last week. i had big plans to stay in friday night and watch it. wrong! two things curtailed my tv viewing extravaganza:

1) my tv was not working (window dudes messed everything up in my room).
2) lost apparently runs on "fancy" cable here (similar to HBO), which of course i don't have.

boo. luckily Ly is almost as obsessed as i am with the show and steals it free from someone in his office who hacks it from the states. however, he wasn't sure he could get it for me until saturday. what to do...

i actually ended up working until almost 8 pm and was contemplating just going home. but, a few of my co-workers were at the kings as sort of a send-off party for themselves. yes, the boys in my office were leaving for amsterdam the next day and decided to get proper pissed before heading out. ha.

even so, i only planned to stay for a drink. but people just kept buying beer! and then shots of jaeger appeared and so on and so forth. :-) these guys are always fun to hang out with but it was especially amusing to guess which one of them was going to wind up in a dutch prison over the weekend. (almost certainly one of them would) we laughed so hard that one dude spit a mouthful of beer all over the rest of us AND an innocent bystander. so gross but it was hilarious and quite the visual, all the liquid spraying out in slow motion. i have only ever seen that happen on tv. :-)

speaking of tv, i woke up a bit delicate the next morning and all i wanted to do was watch crap on BBC4. but alas it still wasn't working. the dude finally came to fix it at 4 pm and i was still in my jammies. doh. even better, it turned out that the tv wasn't actually broken, all the plugs were just loose. thought i had checked everything, but we all know that jen and electronics just don't mix. i'm sure he thought i was a dumb blonde and i really can't say i blame him! he was very nice though and by the time he left, my 1980's tv was back in business...and so was i.