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Happy Gilmore on DVD for £2.97 – that is what I’m talking about.

Anyway, yeah, I made it! Came down ill that day and only just hauled my ass into work but I got through it eventually. Long night though, didn’t start feeling alright until I had finished work and I’m still not feeling great now. Now I just have to survive till payday.

It’s here! Yay!

Before I start, yeah! I well only have one more close to do. Tomorrow is day nine baby. Then the real world begins lol. Anyway yeah, back to my story, it’s here! My PA system has finally arrived. I only had a very brief period to set it up and play with it but it’s awesome. I woke up this morning (late) to find it filling up most of my hallway. Photos will follow once I can get decent ones but at the moment it’s all crammed in my room so I have no floor space left.

The speakers are massive, probably bigger than the ones I ordered (they upgraded me to these for free because they couldn’t get hold of the ones I wanted), it seems to go fairly loud though my dad was dubious (this was with 4 of the 6 volume settings on like 50% though so it can go a lot louder than what we got it). It sucks that it’s 4am now as I can’t really start belting out music on them :D.

I got dragged away from playing with the kid to go back to uni though. I had to meet Paul who delivered some more stuff before I headed off to Roger Stevens to plaster every single lecture theatre and then headed down to media services to pick up the posters which was a bit worrying when they couldn’t find them but I was later informed that Claire had already picked them up.

Work was a fairly late one tonight, we got out at like 2:45 and headed down to Tesco. I really miss the post-work Tesco visits, I probably won’t get another one for a while given that they aren’t open Saturday or Sunday nights which is the shifts I work during term time. Anyways, I need to sleep so I can get up early, pick up the generator and fiddle around with the kit for a few hours before heading off for my final shift of Easter. So long.

Last night we had four closers rather than the usual week day. A benefit perhaps until you see who the closers actually were. Hence why we clocked out at 3. Fun.

It’s starting to kick a bit now. I drank a litre of Red Bull last night. That can’t be healthy. Only two more days to go though. Then the real work starts :p.

I thought tonight was going to be an early night. Guess I was wrong about that, it’s 5:30, I’m only half an hour away from going to bed the same time as last night.

Back at work again, it was well dead tonight but then we had no staff so it all worked out. By 7:30 we had only one person on who wasn’t part of the fairly small closing team after James Peat decided not to come in (or you know, let us know he wouldn’t be). Afterwards we ended up at Tesco having another rather deep conversation, or at least as deep as they get at The D. Found out some interesting stuff too.

“Push harder,” Sarann begs. George moans.

I am of course describing the actions of George pushing Sarann’s trolley round Tesco.

A day off seems a novelty at the moment though while I’m only working for a slightly extended two weeks it feels like a long time. I spent a good bit of time sleeping even after getting woken up at 9am by HSS and headed over to the A-Soc meeting. Afterwards we went to Pepperann’s for dinner which was cool as I’ve eaten nothing but D meals for like a week.

Once most people had cleared out and we were clearing up we ended up on the subject of food and decided to take a trip to Tesco given I had been planning to make use of the 24 hour opening anyway. So at 3am we hit Tesco Seacroft. They do major restocking on a night at that Tesco (more so than Tesco Garforth which I went to tonight) so it’s a bit of an obsticle course. I walked out with another 4 litres of Red Bull which should keep me going a while given I walked out with two litres a few days before that.

It was one of those evenings where you have really good talks with people. I don’t know whether it was because we haven’t seen each other that much over Easter or whether it was just generally one of those nights but I had some quality discussion with Sarann and George which was ace.

I found a place so safe, not a single tear
The first time in my life and now it’s so clear
Feel calm I belong, I’m so happy here
It’s so strong and now I let myself be sincere
I wouldn’t change a thing about it
This is the best feeling

Why am I still alone? Is it because my 80’s rock legend hair is unappealing to everyone other than myself? Is it because I work at The D? Is it because I’m a New Atheist? Is it because my holier than thou attitude leads me to turn down those that are interested in me? These are all great reasons.

Somehow, it doesn’t seem to make it fair though. Relating back to my earlier post I think it’s rubbing it in that I’m spending my time driving around in a big family car and parking it at my big family house.

Emo rant over. 4th close in a row tonight. I ended up doing dive for the first time in quite a while and while we were fairly dead we didn’t get out until 2:24 due to people not being particularly focused and we only got out then because we decided we were done and clocked out, much to the annoyance of Gary it seemed but there is more to it than that, details which I’m not going ro discuss here but ask me if for some reason you are interested (other than if you work there I can’t see why).

Need to be up at a decent time tomorrow for the final Rationalist Week planning meeting before the week itself. The PA system is still not on its way and it’s suddenly dawned on me I have less than a week to sort out 9 speeches. On top of that Debate Soc may be pulling out of the debate and HSS haven’t called me to sort out the generator. Add to all this my impending coursework deadlines and another marathon line-up of shirts starting after my day off, oh I also need to race over to uni to pick the posters up from Media Services on Friday which is a complete mission with the slip roads closed and I haven’t really spoken to Claire about all the plans because she’s in Japan. You’ve gotta love it.

Why is finding a blank CD so hard?

I wanted to burn a CD so I could play it in my car – all my CD-Rs at home have disappeared though. So I got up and raced down to Sainsbury’s before my shift to grab one. It was closed (it was supposed to be open 11-5, I got there at 4:30). Ben suggested it was because of Easter Sunday though all the Tesco’s were doing regular Sunday hours so I presumed Sainbury’s would be, the info isn’t on their website. Ben said Tesco was closed as well though (Tesco specifically said they would be open so I don’t know what was going on there).

So on my break I raced over to the petrol station at Sainbury’s but they didn’t sell any. So I headed over to Texaco who didn’t sell any either. Then this evening I decided to head over to uni to get one. I found the 24 hour BP on the way and checked there, they didn’t sell any either. So I eventually ended up back at uni where I found one. One! Where have all my CD-R’s gone?

Wow, how can it only be day two?

I started the day by eventually getting up and deciding to head down to Crossgates to buy some stuff I needed. However as I was about to walk out of the door I realised I had totally blanked on my alarm code. It took me 30 minutes to eventually work it out. That is so not normal. I’m worried about what’s happening to my mind.

Turned up to work to find we were a closer down and given I had no kitchen staff it was like 10pm when we filtered and we didn’t get out until going on 2:30. Still not a bad time given our staffing levels. It was really dead for the last hour or two though. After that we headed back to Camelot for the usual general chat and slut jokes at Kayleigh’s expense.

Only 7 more days to go. This time next week I will be free, mu ha ha ha ha ha.

Well, day one of my nine day work marathon is over. This is before my hell week of running Rationalist Week and then just when I should get a chance to sleep I have Wendy (which is of course unmissable) and will no doubt be at work the day after. Then I have another hell week with all the coursework deadlines. Finish that with another weekend at work and I can finally sleep as it will be the revision period so no lectures, no commitments for a week. I’m counting down the days. I plan to sleep right through April 30th. Only 24 days to go!

Working on more short term goals however, only 7 more closes to go. Tonight’s close went quite well, we had kitchen done for 12:50 due to some serious (and literal I should add) running around and the whole thing was sorted about 15 minutes later. We were clocked out before 1:30. Still disappointing though, I was hoping to have everything complete for 1. Still, it was a bank holiday so time and a half until midnight suited me quite well. It’s actually a decent page rate when you do that with the numbers. Bit of a con though in that they calculate our time and a half before adding on our post-midnight bonus rather than adding the bonus on and making it all time and a half. That’s corporations for you though. Anyway, sleep time.

After feeling ill on Wednesday night I went to bed at 10 and got a decent night’s sleep in though I did have to get up at 6:30 for work. Work itself was alright, I saw the “day shift” for the first time since Chrismukka which will likely be the only time between now and summer that I will see them unless their is a company social or whatever.

Then in the evening I headed back to town to meet Michelle and Rosie before we headed down to Bourbon to meet Phil and eventually Sarann (who turned up about an hour and a half late). It was cool to actually talk to Rosie given she has been up for a week and the only time I’ve seen her is for like an hour in Walkabout on Saturday. You can tell she is Michelle’s sister (or at least from Jersey) in the fact that she thought my job was really cool because I get to wear a hat.

Now I’m back home once again and due at work. I’m quite liking home at the moment though, my parents went on holiday yesterday and my sister doesn’t get back until today so for the night I had the house to myself which I enjoy, it seems somewhat removed from the pressures of uni. While coursework and Rationalist Week are still playing on my mind hear, I do at least have cable TV to attempt to drown it out with.