First Australian meetup for 2009? December 20, 2008 8:15 PM   Subscribe

I'm back in Sydney for early January. Beer?

I'm in Sydney between December 30 and January 3 or 4, back from the frozen realm known as the USA. Who's up for a meetup?

Somewhere in Newtown/Camperdown would be good, but I'm flexible.
posted by zamboni to MetaFilter Gatherings at 8:15 PM (21 comments total)

I'm actually visiting the 31st to the 2nd and have no concrete plans at all...
posted by drjimmy11 at 9:09 PM on December 20, 2008


Yay! *gets ready to add two temp neighbors*
posted by tellurian at 11:27 PM on December 20, 2008


Hmm, well I leave for New Zealand the 24th.

If something does end up happening, can someone email me at the gmail in my profile?

thanks!
posted by drjimmy11 at 2:08 PM on December 22, 2008


I should be around, and definitely up for a inner west meet up.
posted by arha at 3:33 PM on December 23, 2008


The afternoon/evening of the 2nd looks workable. (4 o'clock or so?)

Pub:
a) the Duck and Swan, in Chippendale,
b) the Courthouse, in Newtown,
c) the standard Alfred.
d) other.
posted by zamboni at 3:29 PM on December 29, 2008


There are 2 votes for the courthouse (arha and I).
posted by tellurian at 11:34 PM on December 30, 2008


I'll send out a Sydney members email to see if we can scare up some more.
posted by tellurian at 11:44 PM on December 30, 2008


Thanks for the heads-up, tellurian. (Man, I feel out of the MeFi loop. I haven't touched the site much in the past few months.) I can do afternoon/evening on the 2nd. Chippo is preferred just because it's three blocks from my house and I'm lazy, but anywhere in Newtown is fine too.

Oooh, and I can tell you all the exciting story of how I got retrenched the week before Christmas! Lest you think it's merely a ploy to get you to buy me all beers, I'll add that I managed to get hired by my former company's competitors 48 hours later. Still, it kinda sucked at first...
posted by web-goddess at 11:49 PM on December 30, 2008


Tragically, Angela and I are in Chicago these days. We should have met on this side of the pond, zamboni.

Hopefully a meetup will go off without a hitch and we'll be there in spirit.

P.s. Glad the drama on getting retrenched worked out well, weg-goddess. I found out recently that my old group was also made redundant last month. Good thing I left for school before they could fire me!
posted by qwip at 8:03 AM on December 31, 2008


Equally tragically, I'm no longer in oz. These days I call Mexico home.

Happy New Year!
posted by dhruva at 10:06 AM on December 31, 2008


So, Courthouse, Newtown, 4pm Friday 2nd. Any objections?
posted by arha at 11:44 AM on December 31, 2008


All systems go. See you there!
posted by zamboni at 6:18 PM on December 31, 2008


Tragically, Angela and I are in Chicago these days.
Yes, I used the old mailing list and I haven't cleaned it up in some time. Happy to hear you missed a retrenching.
Equally tragically, I'm no longer in oz.
Now that one is a surprise. I saw on your blog that you were in Mexico but I thought it was just a field trip. Buena suerte with the post doc.
posted by tellurian at 7:35 PM on January 1, 2009


Awww, crap. I had pop-in guests and couldn't get away before now. Sorry to have missed it! Hope you guys had a good time, and you weren't in the beer garden. (Dude, it suddenly got COLD.)
posted by web-goddess at 10:52 PM on January 1, 2009


S'okay goddess. You were very much missed and talked about (in a good way) if that's any consolation. arha had some redundancy stories along the same lines. zamboni too, about his situation in the US.
Dude, we were on the half-in-half-out balcony, it was FINE.
posted by tellurian at 8:15 AM on January 2, 2009


I forgot to mention that I've cunningly disguised myself as someone without a moustache, which impeded the rendezvous. That, and I'd forgotten what tellurian looked like. We found each other eventually, so it all worked out! Too bad you couldn't make it, goddess - it would have been lovely to see you.

qwip: If I'm in Chicago, I'll let you know.

(Dude, it suddenly got COLD.)
I'm still 30-odd degrees Celsius warmer than when I left, so I'm calling it a win.
posted by zamboni at 10:49 PM on January 2, 2009


d'oh! i was in myitkyina, about as far north as one can go in burma as a tourist. and to think that the courty is my local. hope the friendly barstaff treated you well; well, at least those who haven't defected to the US or Mexico, that is ;P
posted by UbuRoivas at 2:44 AM on January 3, 2009


Ah fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck thud.
posted by peacay at 4:52 AM on January 4, 2009 [1 favorite]


Dammit people a little more warning please for next time! Would have been there to say hello had this been on the cards for more than just one week.
posted by nudar at 2:12 AM on January 6, 2009


nudar, with all due respect - posted December 21, then confirmed and consummated. It would have been nice to have you there but fuckfuck thud as others please.
I just checked my Sydney MetaFilter meetup address list and you're not on it. Do you want to be added?
posted by tellurian at 4:48 AM on January 6, 2009


--confirmed and consummated--

Well. If I'd known religious molestation was in the offing, I'd have clicked on the email link earlier and found out in time.
posted by peacay at 10:02 PM on January 6, 2009


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