Relieved! I opted out of a conference dinner for the first time in almost 30 years of conferences. They are expensive, service is slow, I never make any useful extra contacts during the meal, and I always leave first of all. I look forward to a really good kebab instead. (I am also massively bored at parties and mostly spend them collecting dishes for washup.)
@mrundkvist throwback to a conference dinner where the starter was literally a bread roll, and a slice of cheese on top of half a big tomato. I don't like tomatoes, so I put the cheese in the roll and ate it as a sandwich 😅
@alicemcalicepants At the 1996 EAA in Riga, we had all paid for a banquet, but it turned out to be a small table of cold cuts and two cubic metres of vodka. It was a bad scene. I fled to a night café and had a decadent custard pastry.
For the small but vocal contingent of insane people who take an interest in my personality, I should explain that I am neither autistic nor an introvert. I am a loud used-car salesman type and the hub of a large social circle of nerds. I love spending activity-based time with my friends. Let's go hiking, then play boardgames! Just not sit down passively for hours with drinks. I can do that if everybody reads a book.
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