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Something strange is going on. My laptop thought it was May. This might be something to do with the time syncronisation as the same thing happened with my desktop. Strange.

Anyway, I last blogged on Thursday morning. Afterwards I went home and slept before getting up ready for my next all-nighter on SE24. In between getting up and coding I went down to a nice French restaurant in town which I haven’t a hope of spelling for dinner. I wore a shirt and everything, how fancy is that? It was well expensive although the food was fairly nice (not amazing though).

I then spent the night in Eniac and we finally got it finished about 8:30 or something and then headed off to lectures. I finally got to bed just after 3. That evening I crawled out of bed at about 10:30, went to the pub for a few hours and then crawled back into bed and slept some more. It was a facinating insight into what B’s life must be like :D. It’s a really good system to be honest, I might have to try it on a more regular basis.

It’s well past 8 am and I’m still in DEC-10. Myself, Gaz and Kieran have just spent all night working on GI21 coursework 2 which is due in, in about 37 minutes. Fortunately I’ve now submitted my coursework so I don’t have to worry about it anymore. Time to go home and get some sleep before tonight’s all nighter on SE24 I think.

I had my 8 month performance review at work yesterday. It’s depressing to think I’ve worked there for 8 months already but on the plus side I scored another 5 (aka “outstanding”). Suck on that Neil. More importantly though Martin told me to start the application process to get promoted to Training Squad.

It’s ironic really that such a promotion is going to look fantastic on my CV especially when I word it as “I am responsible for staff training in the restaurant and upkeep of procedures” given that my CV is a document I hope never to have to use again. But at least on the short term it will result in a bit more money (providing they get it through before I hit 21, which is again depressing).

I’ve just compiled my exam timetable and it’s not nice. I have exams on the Tuesday and Friday of the first week and then the Tuesday, Thursday and Friday of the second week. 4 out of my 6 exams are in the morning and get this – I have an exam on 1 June, the very last day of the three week exam period. Nobody else I know in computing has any exams that late.

Even more annoying is the fact that I have an exam on the morning of Thursday 24th. Which is really bad timing given I have an all-night party to go to on the night before. I’m not amused.

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.