Excellent. My party just ended, and everybody seemed to be in high spirits. It was a pretty decently varied crowd. One dude was jamming on my guitar playing a lot of classic stuff, like The Doors and Beethoven. Another fellow was showing off the XBLA game he's been working hard on for the past several months (it's called "gingerbread holiday" -- it's very physics based, involving decorating gingerbread houses, fun and very enjoyable for content creation types, though the controls feel a bit off putting). One of my regulars was mixing an Old Fashioned while telling people the history of the cocktail, and I was passing out the miracle fruit for folks who wanted to suck on lemons for a while. There were even a couple people who came in after hearing about the party via couchsurfing.org.
I was hoping that more people would cook stuff, as people were doing that last year, and the theme of the party involved making novel things, but it was still an overall success. Next time around, I will likely try that outdoors themed tent sort of thing, as I have a couple people from this party who seem likely to participate.
Also, pretty good overal drink haul. Two full bottles of vodka, a lot of wine, a little bit of whiskey, some coffee liqueur, and so on. Crazy amounts of soft drinks, too. The hard drinks will come in useful at the Sci-Fi convention next weekend.
Hm. I have a midterm tomorrow, but it's one of those dealies where I don't think that studying will particularly help. Getting a lot of sleep will be pretty important there.