Giving up

[indigo_rose99]

When is the appropriate time to give up on previously discussed social engagements?

Today (Friday) is Robert Burns Day in Glasgow.  There have been signs about it for days now.  thereisnomagic encouraged me to ask my students about their plans.  I did, and one of them is hosting an out-of-town work guest this week.  She offered to have me join them tonight, going out. I accepted, getting the feeling that this was a more-the-merrier situation.  That was Tuesday.

I did not hear from her on Wednesday.  Or Thursday.  Or at any time today.  I left a note for her before I left work today, telling her my hotel and room number and encouraging her to call with plans.  I got back to my hotel by about 4:30pm.  I have no active cell phone.

By 5:30pm I was bored.

At 6pm, I shrugged and decided to go out for a walk.  I walked about town and picked up a few food items for dinner.  I was half expecting there to be a message for me when I returned to my hotel room.

But when I returned at 7:30pm, no message.

So now I'm eating my dinner, drinking from the bottle of wine thereisnomagic helped me find and thinking...  When should I have given up?  Europeans tend to eat later than I am comfortable.  I am not even sure where the Texan line is on this point.  My gut says that if she calls after 8pm, that is rude of her.  Is that really true?  Perhaps there is some knowledge about Robert Burns Day that I lack.  Checking websites....  Nope.  Nothing time-wise I can determine.   And now that I read them, the website descriptions of Burns Night sound pretty awesome!  I'm really regretting missing them.

Comments

[reedrover]

I'm very sorry for you missing out. Is there any chance you can find a public one? Or is the day already over for you there?

[indigo-rose99.livejournal.com]

Pretty much over. 10pm. In my wandering I didn't actually see a venue I would feel comfortable going in alone. *sad face*

[steelgoh.livejournal.com]

I think you gave a more-than-perfectly-fine amount of slack. Especially for a dinner reservation/plan I think that info needs to come in before 6pm in any case. It doesn't matter what time dinner is.

I like the avatar. The likeness is quite good, though it doesn't do justice to your very pretty eyes. Also, I don't really associate you with eyeglasses. Do you wear them often these days? I thought it was fun to make an avatar. What site did you use?

[indigo-rose99.livejournal.com]

On slack: Good, thank you. You have a finer feel for these things than I do.

On avatar: I was wearing eyeglasses when I made it. And I wear them a lot when I am working, so I have worn them a lot these past two weeks. Fine print and computer screens really require them these days. So I guess I could have gone either way and just defaulted to wearing them in the avatar. *shrug*

Anyway, it is a site called Portrait Illustrator Maker: http://illustmaker.abi-station.com/index_en.shtml
I have been eyeing ovrclokd's avatars with jealousy. And I kept seeing other people with ones made by the same "artist," so I figured it had to be available somewhere. Rather than search for it using the perfectly available name on ovrclokd's blog or even ask her, I used the long route and searched for it myself. *shrug* I will warn you that I encountered a degree of randomness to their site, and their first language does not seem to be English. In spite of that, it was fun.