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This has got me thinking of the Lostpropets song by a similar title now. Anyway, something do DC just happened!

Got back from home at about 10ish or something and everyone from Grant House (well not everyone but there was like 70-80% of us there or something) was just sat out back, sitting around drinking, BBQing, playing guitar and singing along, we’ve only just finished now (gathering got broken up by the night porter guy).

It was so cool, we were just sat round in t-shirts, shorts, etc at like 11:30 pm and singing aand such. And it was dark so I wasn’t out in direct sunlight :p. Score!

Speaking to a friend recently who started telling this story of a guy he once walked up to uni on a Sunday with from Clarance Dock where they were both staying last year. We got on to the subject by talking about the internet, internet dating, etc.

Anyway, this person was dating some girl in America. They were in love and had been going out for years. Hmm I thought, I’m sure I know someone who is in that sort of relationship. The story then went on to explain how he basically socialised online and never came out to the pub. He even got his shopping online so he never really needed to leave his room (a nerds dream!). Wow, this is starting to sound really familar.

A theory started to form in my mind. “Was he wearing a leather jacket?” The thing that finally clinched it, beyond the fact he was moving into a house with his friend next year (now this year, the friend I worked out was Jay) was when the story went on to role playing soc. It was Jimmy! How cool is that? A story comes out in a conversation about someone this guy had only met once and it turned out to be Jimmy. That’s just soooo cool.

Just got back from the first committee dinner party for film making society. We had our first official meeting today. I booked us in to meeting room 7, the union put us in meeting room 2 so that wasted 15 minutes of the meeting but we didn’t need it anyway. We finished at 6 even though we had a room booked for two hours.

We have so many plans too. I took minutes at the meeting which is like half a side of bullet points plus I have another, longer list that I wrote down this evening. The dinner party itself was great, the good was excellent and we came up with so, so many plans!

This year is going to be year of the film making society!

A little short on time so I might expand on this later. Went to Bondi last night with Fonze, John, Claire, Maths Chris and an expanded social circle. I was hoping Sophie and Lunn would turn up too. They didn’t but we still had 9 of us.

It was a pretty good night but the bouncer was giving Fonze trouble because he hadn’t got his NUS card sorted. He said it was the last week he would be allowed in without one which is BS as that was the 5th Monday in a row we had been at Bondi (Fonze actually missed last week but I was still there with people), why do they have to be such assholes?

I mean, I’ve been coming solidly for over a month and I’ve been several times before then too plus I brought no less than 9 people including myself last night, that’s £90 for them and it wasn’t exactly packed. And we still get treated like dirt. I’m seriously thinking of moving my custom elsewhere.

Been at uni almost a year now (well in uni years, the uni year is almost over, it won’t be a linear year until September) and I’ve just checked a book out of the library for the first time :p. Ok, I’m not that bad though, I’ve used the library several times before it’s just that I have never checked one out of the library before, I always just read it in there. But yeah, I just checked one out. Go me!

Got to bed around 1:30, maybe later as I just stuck an episode of the X-Files on and started watching that before drifting off. Slept until nearly 6. Still, looking forward to more sleep tonight. I should probably eat something.

I can’t believe the weekend has already gone. This was going to be my catch-up weekend when I had lots of free time to do things like videos for my websites, getting on top of my emails and so forth. I also need to sort my room out again and get some washing done.

Wow, I didn’t post yesterday. Busy day though. Got up at 11 (after getting back from Sarann’s about 3) and went down to the market where we bought loads of meat and such for a BBQ in Hyde Park. Finally got that going about 2 and didn’t finish until 6. Guessing we’re going to have to streamline that if we want to do it in a lunch hour :D.

Then last night was Oblivion. It was just in one room, Mine, so it wasn’t multiple musical options but the music was good. Wasn’t the perfect set I was looking for but still probably one of the best playlists I have heard since coming to uni. We got to the Old Bar at like 8 and starting drinking there then went in just before 10.

Originally it was myself, Fonze, Claire, Michelle and Tony plus Sophie and Sarann eventually joined us. Everyone except myself and Fonze left about 1 though. We were still going as we had been drinking (and continued lol) red bulls all night :D.

Fonze’s confidence is going up. He went up and asked a girl to dance (who indeed accepted) and the girl that I mentioned was dancing in Mutate (Mine) at the last Wendy House was there so we had a dance. She’s called Laura and seems to share my view that Wendy House is unmissable.

It finished at 2:34 and we bussed it back to mine and spent the night watching horror movies :p. We managed to get through Halloween, The Faculty, Free Enterprise and an episode of Futurama before Fonze went to get the bus home at 9. Since then I’ve spent like 40 minutes in the shower (which is quite short, I thought I was in there for like an hour) and watched some more Futurama. I’m sure I’ll get around to sleeping eventually :D.

Finished my DB11 coursework and headed to the bus stop about 4:45. Didn’t get a bus until 5:15 or something (these times might be a little closer but it was still a long time to be waiting for a bus that in theory runs every 10 minutes and you’ll see why it’s even worse as I go on). I was waiting for a 95, I ended up getting a 1. To be more specific, the 4th number 1. 4th! In between me arriving and me getting on the 1 I got on, there were 3 number 1’s, 3 97A’s and 2 96’s – an no 95s! That’s just stupid. Did I like miss every 95 in existence?

Still, it wasn’t a bad thing. Claire turned up while I was waiting so I had a good chat with her about recent events and indeed times to come (Oblivion on Saturday and Bondi on Monday). I also got the bus home with Janine who is also still hyper after seeing Gary Numan on Monday.

Tonights plans involve going to the Rock Soc social which is basically just people gathering in a pub. Still, shound be fun. Would have been must grander plans but Fonze can’t get out as his parents are going out.

Is it a hate crime to beat up a racist?

Why am I blogging my post night out round-up at just gone midnight you ask? Well it was a fairly short nice. To put it simply, the bouncer wouldn’t net us into Bondi because we were wearing trainers. We toyed with the idea of going elsewhere but in the end Fonze decided to bus it home. But that’s beside the point, this is such f***ing bulls***! I’m now going to deliver a lengthy lecture on why that is.

It’s Thursday
The most obvious point is – it’s Thursday! It’s not even the weekend. I can accept that they have a dress code on the weekend when everyone is in town but there simply aren’t that many people out clubbing on a Thursday. Beggers can’t be choosers (well they can but they probably shouldn’t be) and that place was desserted, it was nearly 11 when we arrived and not only was no queue or anyone following us also heading to there.

Firstly, it’s Bondi
This isn’t your uber-trendy nightclub like Gatecrasher or Oceania. It’s Bondi. It’s a beach bar! Hardy the Ritz is it. It’s all about girls in bikinis serving drinks, as much as I love it, it’s not a classy place.

Plus they don’t seem to enforce this dress code randomly. When we went for Fonze’s birthday they turned Andy away because he had stealies on (as I’ve mentioned in a previous post) but were quite happy to let the rest of us and I know for a fact that myself and Fonze were wearing trainers. It may have been over the holidays but it’s still totally double standards.

It’s Leeds
I disagree with dress codes most of the time anyway. Students make up 10% of the population in Leeds and we all dress casual. Not 10% of the clubbing population, but 10% of the entire population. We single handidly keep these places alive through the weekdays and indeed to a degree the weekends too. They should cut is a break, especially on a Thursday! How many non-students are even going to be out on a Thursday night?