Well, one thing I’d been thinking about on and off while I was away was the idea of going back to St. Andrew’s and seeing some of my old teachers. See who survived the purging of the Fairbairn regime and just generally see what kind of changes had been wrought in the last five or so years. As it turns out, I managed to see a whole lot of people! I started off with just a quick visit, seeing Mrs. Long and Mr. Farmer. Today I went back and saw a whole raft of people, former teachers of mine – directly or indirectly. I didn’t spend as much time with some as I’d like, mostly I just got to have brief conversations with people. I also managed to somehow become a guest spot in Mr. Brittenden’s year 13 design class, fielding a few questions about how the class helped me and dishing out a few bits of advice about what not to do (i.e. don’t procrastinate) during his design class.

Earlier this evening, I then went out to town to Fat Eddies, where Hera was having a gig. As I hadn’t seen her live in concert for a very long time, it was great to kick back at a little table with a Lemon, Lime and Bitters and listen to her music. I got to say hi to her and so on, although I didn’t manage to catch up with her after the gig as I had originally planned, since I ended up talking to some people sitting behind me. Turns out one of them actually was a student at StAC (would have been in 4th form when I was a prefect there), and that a friend of theirs who came and sat with us… was Warwick, formerly of Boulevard Systems, whom I had met while working at E-caf and done a little bit of work for. Very much a “Christchurch moment” – it’s a small, small world.