This blog has passed through fire and death, and has now been sent back, until its task is done. The blog is finally (mostly) up and running, and all kinds of
stuff will be posted here. As a welcome and introduction, I’ll let our SoCo,
Catriona, take the reins:
Hello all!
Thanks so much for stopping by our table
today, and doing us the honour of either becoming a member or joining our
mailing list. I really do hope you drop by some of our events, or come see us
in our Club Room, which is SUB 125E. This is on the same floor as Bernoulli's
Bagels and Pi R Squared Pizza, and I have attached a handy map so that
hopefully you will be able to find us. We are the red square in the upper right
corner, and the red arrows point to the easiest entrances to use to get to the
club room.
I would also like to point you in the
direction of our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/groups/272446642837859/).
That aside, here's a little update on
what's going on in the club for the next couple of weeks.
This Friday we will be hosting our
traditional Movie Night! Come to Buchanan B215 at 5:30ish to join
in us for an evening of Human Mishaps in Space: Thank Goodness There Are Kind
Souls Around To Save Ours.
This will involve Wall-E and Planet 51,
two animated films that perhaps answer the question of why first contact has
not been made: really, why would anyone out there want to talk with us?
That matter aside, Wall-E postulates a
future in which humanity has entirely managed to destroy the earth, piling it
high in garbage and fleeing for the stars. Our titular hero is a diligent
garbage disposal robot, whose merry little world is blown wide open by the
arrival of strange visitors from the sky... Planet 51, meanwhile, takes place
on a world where life is ticking along fairly happily, at least until the
unexpected arrival of a human astronaut, who promptly proceeds to make
everything terribly complicated.
The first film will probably kick off at
6ish, and we will have a 30-45 minute break between films for people to scout
out food.
Secondly, next Friday (the 26th) will be
the SFS Welcome Icebreaker! There will be food, games (of varying
levels of daftness), a great deal of getting to know each other and possibly a
film to cap the evening off. So please do come along! If those of you on the
mailing list should come along to an event and decide we are actually worth
joining (we do hope you will!) we will have sign-up sheets and such at all of
these events.
In the upcoming weeks we also have a
Treasure Hunt planned, a plethora of vaguely Halloween-ish films for Friday
nights in October, and we'll shortly be sending out a poll to everyone to get
some feedback on what you would actually like to see from us. But to get
kickstarted on that one, if you have any Suggestions or Comments for
films, activities, things you'd like us to do and so on, please do send them
in!
Well, if you've read through all of my
ramblings you probably deserve a medal, so I shall sign off here.
I hope to see you around, and if I do, I look
forward to getting to know you,
Catriona
Your Friendly Neighbourhood SoCo
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