My day started all nice with that song below. It’s finished with me feeling more like the following song.

Vicki’s being a spaz. She’s going to end up getting back with her ex-boyfriend because she’s a small-minded little girl who doesn’t know what she’s doing at the moment. It wouldn’t be such a big deal if she’d just tell me the fucking truth about it. Instead she keeps all quiet, ignores the couple of messages I’ve bothered sending her. Avoids seeing me when possible, and avoids talking to me when she sees me.

This got me in a really bad mood, which in turn made me fuck things up with Lizi. I’ve given up waiting for Vicki, a long time ago. Lizi is absolutely awesome, and I’m so pissed off that Vicki’s got to me as much as she has done. I was supposed to see Lizi today, but then she changed her mind because I was going to be going to the quiz at The Talbot. She didn’t want me to buy her drinks. She also didn’t want me to cancel going to the quiz, even though I genuinely offered. So we ended up arguing (because I was in a bad mood already) and now she’s ignoring my messages too.

We had sort of arranged to meet up tomorrow instead of tonight, but I’m fairly sure that’s not going to happen now. I’ve totally managed to fuck over the only chance I had at getting someone I want. I can’t stand crap like this. It’s all just a storm in a tea-cup really, but it’ll take days to sort out, even if I apologise profusely. I don’t know what I can do to patch things up with Lizi, and I don’t have a clue what to do about Vicki. She sometimes tries to be friends, but then doesn’t bother for a really long time. Usually when she fucking wants something from me. She obviously did like me, but I really don’t think she knows what she wants now. I don’t want to wait around like a fool to find out. It’s just a shame it’s all gone this way.

I went to The Talbot quiz with Dave last night. We bumped into Laura and Stacey in there, because they apparently live there now. Weirdly we also bumped into Adam. Very unusual.

Between us we got 52 out of 60 on the quiz. There were a couple of cheating episodes, but blah. There was a lot of controversy over one of the answers. “VS, a kind of cake.” Everyone in the pub put Victoria Sponge, and the answer he had was Victoria Sandwich, and he wouldn’t fold either. There was booing, heckling, the lot! 😀

We tied for second place (first got 53) and then lost in the tie-breaker because we didn’t realise Eric Cantona had 47 caps for France. We put 23 and the other team put 27. Oh well.

I got up nice and late this morning because Mondays are awesome. 😀 This song is how I feel about Monday mornings.

Yesterday at work I had a bit of a joke around with a girl in college with ginger hair. She got quite annoyed at one point, so I stopped and helped her with her work for a little bit. She left seeming totally fine. 5 minutes later 2 teachers came down to see me. I got sat down in the library for a bit of a chat. Apparently the girl had been crying, and had to be excused from doing some work because she was in such a state. She’d even called her mum and told her. Uh-oh!

I went upstairs with the teachers and they collected the girl. We sat down in a room where I apologised. She said she was sorry too, because she’d been giving it (almost) as good as she’d been getting it. Then it was all over. That was a bit too close for my liking. I’m going to have to keep my mouth closed to people who I don’t know can _definitely_ handle it.

After work Adam and I went to play football with some more people from work on the pitch at the back of college. It was a really good game. I scored a hat trick before anyone else on my team scored a goal. I ran all over the place, slide tackled people, and it was a lot of fun. Adam had an excellent header into the net from lying on the ground. 😀

After football we went for our habitual drink at The Rushley before Adam dropped me off so he could go and get ready to go out.

I got showered and changed and then waited for him to come back. Dave called just before Adam arrived and asked if I wanted to go into town. I said I was already going, so I’d let him know when I got somewhere.

Adam and I went to Burger King and I tried the Angus, which I had in America all the time, but is new-ish to England. It’s nowhere near as good… But still better than some boring burger! 🙂

We headed to Riley’s from there and met up with the Emmas, AJ, and Ellis (AJ’s cousin). Dave arrived after a little while, shortly followed by Harley, Will, and some massive guy who looks like a white Mr. T (mohawk and all) who I didn’t get the name of.

We played a lot of games of pool. Adam claims he won all 22 games he played. I know I didn’t beat him once, so it’s entirely possible.

I walked around for most of the night with two green stickers on my face because Emma C stuck them there for no reason. I kept forgetting they were there until I caught people staring at me. 😐

“A few more pictures here”:http://essteeyou.com/media/photos/main.php?g2_itemId=35158&g2_highlightId=35181.

At about 5am Adam and I decided it was time to leave. It was absolutely freezing outside so we ran the first part to get our temperatures up a bit. It wasn’t a bad walk really. I almost got into bed without removing the green stickers. :\

I decided to do a bit more proofreading for Project Gutenberg today. Only a couple of pages, but I came across this gem of a sentence:

bq. It was pitiful to watch the crew’s
morale sag. The miasmal taint of the
ominously proliferating vegetation
was soon pervading the ship, spreading
demoralization everywhere.

Who thinks like that? Apparently “Frank Belknap Long”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Belknap_Long does, in The Sky Trap. Probably not many others though.

Check out the post below this one, motoring along there with 26 comments! 🙂

I just bought my “Download”:http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/home/index.aspx ticket. 😀 An entire weekend of camping while listening to some awesome bands. I can’t fricking wait! 😀

I was out on Friday night with Adam to start with. He went home before too long though. I’d bumped into a couple of people (Paul and Mike) I met through Vicki though, so I stayed out with them. After a couple of pubs I met up with the Emmas from college. We had yet more drinks and then headed into Liquid where I met a few students from college who were out for a birthday celebration. Stayed in there drinking until they closed, then headed over to Riley’s with the Emmas, Paul and Mike to play pool because it’s the only place still open. Everyone got tired after a few games and people got taxis home. I got back at about half past 5 and collapsed on the bed.

I got woken up 7 hours later by my phone. I spent the first few hours of the day on the phone to a couple of people, then decided I should shower and get ready. Ready to do absolutely nothing for the remainder of the day. 🙂 I watched 3 or 4 episodes of Lost, a bunch of episodes of 24, and Life On Mars too. I also watched the first episode of a show I’d never heard of. It’s called “Carnivale”:http://www.tv.com/carnivale/show/11443/summary.html. It’s pretty good so far. I know it’s been cancelled after only one season, but I’m hoping it’ll be cool for the 20 or so episodes that exist.

I got to sleep at about 2am and managed to be awake at 7am for no good reason. I sent a text message and then went back to sleep until 10. Dave came over after an hour or two. We watched a large portion of “Blades Of Glory”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445934/ before he went to his niece’s birthday party.

Since then I’ve watched the rest of the movie, had a shower, and sent a text message. A wonderfully easy couple of days. All it needs is Chinese food or pizza and it’ll be perfect.

I’ve spent around £100 over the last 2 days. All of that has been spent in pubs and clubs. That’s quite a lot of alcohol!

Wednesday night was spent with Dave in The Talbot. Bumped into some students and chatted with them for a bunch of the time. Then bumped into someone Dave used to work with and one of her friends. So we sat with them for the rest of the night.

Last night I was out in town with some college people. I tried to get Len to come out, but failed. I saw a lot of people that I know and had a nice time. I got home at around half past three, or something. On the way back I decided that I should really leave Vicki a 7 minute long answering machine message. So that was fun. I can only imagine it was quite interesting to listen to.

Vicki’s back in Mansfield today, but I don’t think I’ll get a chance to see her, same as last weekend… It sucks, but there’s nothing I can seem to do about it anyway, so I’ll just complain about it (yes, Leanne, like everything else). :\

Work is really quite difficult today because I’ve not had much sleep. I’ve also got football outside to look forward to later on. It should be an interesting experience.

There have been two big stories in the papers this week. The first is the killing of a bunch of college kids in America, again. The other is that Prince William and his girlfriend broke up… The fact that these two events have received near-identical coverage in England so far is more than a bit worrying.

No offence to Prince William–one of my most regular readers–but I don’t really care who you’ve broken up with recently. Even if, one day, you’ll be the king and she (or _he_! Imagine a royal gay wedding. The only thing more extravagant than Elton John.) will be the queen.

I have things happening in my own life that occupy more than enough of my time, thank you very much!

I have just seen the funniest most random video I’ve seen for a looooong time!

That’s it.

I was just about to pick up my jacket on my way out of the house this afternoon and it was really sunny and warm outside. I asked my mum if she thought I should take my jacket or not. She said no, so I didn’t… *_Now_* it’s raining.

Literally the first time I didn’t bring a jacket all year, and it backfires _completely_.