Friday night

[David]

On the London list we have been discussing the possibility of a get-
together on the night of Friday 20th.  I have decided not to 
participate, partly for a variety of practical reasons to do with 
transport and the need not to be too tired on Saturday.

But even without these practical constraints, I don't think I'd want 
to do it.  Basically, I want to go into a bookshop, get the book, 
take it home and then read it when I can.  I think I have a marginal 
preference for doing that in the daytime, but if I went at midnight 
I'd still ignore all the other customers in the shop and hope they'd 
ignore me.

After I've read the book I'll discuss online and offline, of course.

Does that make me hopelessly anti-social?  I mean, there's all this 
hoopla with muari (or is it mauri) which loads of people want to do, 
and I wondered if I was abnormal here.  Or are there others like me?

David