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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.

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 it’s 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.

Got out of work Saturday night and got to sleep at gone 6am due to having problems sleeping. I then got woken up at about 10:30 by the sound of drilling. Awesome. So working on about 4 hours sleep I spent my time going round Argos and Tesco picking up garden furniture for Rationalist Week - I now have 12 plastic stacking chairs and 3 flat pack round tables in my bedroom and there is more to come.

I then went to work at 2pm for unit classes before my normal 5-close. Evil. Unit classes ended up running for 5 hours so I got to do nothing for the first 2 hours of my close plus as soon as I walked into the kitchen at 7 I got sent on my break. To be fair though I was on a really long shift and little sleep so I don’t feel too bad about spending 5 hours sitting around. Plus I past all the test so I should have three stars on their way.

Liz (the shift runner) turned up and was promptly sent home sick so Jay ran the shift who was supposed to be part of the closing team, hence we were down a closer and resulted in me being by myself in the kitchen from 9pm onwards. Again evil. We got out at about 2:30 though due to the fact the kitchen was left in a somewhat shocking state (by my standards anyway, that would be a normal close for some people and by some people I mean Rich lol).

I ended up going back to Amanda for a bit and we ended up watching the first half of Hot Shots. I then headed home and got to bed at like 5 or something. I intended to get up at 2 but kept going back to sleep and ended up getting up at 5:40. Had some dinner at home and then headed back to uni to join everyone in The Terrace.

End result, day one of my coursework blitz so no coursework get done. But to be fair, I was expecting most of today to be a write-off. Let’s home tomorrow is a bit more successful.