The World According To Me

I am going to dinner tonight to say farewell to friend (K) who is off overseas to do some very noble work in a developing country for a year.

The dinner is being held at the home of friends of hers (M & T).

I saw M & T at K's house a few weeks ago for Yum Cha which K made all by herself because she is Far More Clever at cooking than anyone who is not on tele with their own cooking show or in a restaurant and getting paid for it should actually be. It was on a Sunday and I happened to be deathly hungover so I spent most of my time in the K's loungroom with other Hungover People and had cold sweats and sooked about how hungover I was which was met with no sympathy because we were all in the same predicament.

That's not the point of my story.

The point is that M & T and another couple were there and they greeted me in a very friendly manner and called me by name immediately and therefore I was not introduced to them as in "Kymmy, this is M & T and Other Couple, M & T and Other Couple, this is Kymmy" presumably because K already thought I knew them and thus no introductions were necessary. WRONG. I do not know, out of M & T and Other Couple, who M & T actually are and who the Other Couple actually are. M & T and Other Couple are, at this stage in my mind, pretty much indistinguishable from eachother. The girls are both little with jaunty haircuts and pretty faces. The boys were average height, average build and both had brown hair. And I do not exactly know how they know my name and why they spoke to me with such familiarity. This worries me because it means that I have probably been "champagne friends" with them at some function and then promptly erased them from my mind once my BAC lowered to normal levels. This is not because I did not like them but rather than between 2002-mid 2005 I was pretty much pissed more than I was sober. The Party Years. I lived in a house with two boys for a couple of years and there were a lot of parties and goings on which are mostly a blur.

So I got an invitation by e-mail from M to come to this farewell dinner which is very lovely and I am going because I want to say goodbye to K and also it is always nice when someone else cooks for you.

This evening will hopefully not be problematic UNLESS;