I love college..But I love Drinking..

A good start to the week – Just got pretty messed up, Thursday I started my budget period – which will last until the 5th of June. Hopefully by then I will have saved up enough cash to fund my trip to spain.

Monday – Got up about 1130. Had some breakfast(no milk so not a very good breakfast..more like a banana or spaghetti or something). Phone job 12-6. All good, starting to get the hang of it I reckon..I just hope it gives me some money for doing it. Finished at 6, quick shower and off to the Biddy’s staff night out. On leaving the flat, I realised that I couldn’t walk because I was so stiff from Paintballing the day before! I bought a packet of Mcoy’s and a Milky bar kid bar for my tea. Probably not the best idea. San Miguel and Vodka mixer’s were free while we were at Biddy’s. Got there pretty much bang on 7, I figured just drink San Miguel(albeit quickly) while we were there. By 7.40.. everyone was drinking double vodka kick’s(cheap red bull). Ah fuck it! I think that may be the earliest I have ever drunk vodka in that quantity. Must have had about 3 doubles by the time we left. We were doing some sort of treasure hunt or something.. for starters we had to make a poster with our team name on it. I cant remember what it was, but our poster was fucking ace! It had boobs! We had Me, Sean(girl), Shaun(Boy), Kate and Jenni on our team. Next step was to swap clothes with a member of the opposite sex in our team. Thus I spent most of the night wearing a girls blouse. Our team was shit. We took ages to go anywhere or decide on anything! Still we had fun. Singing ‘I’m a little Tea Pot short and stout, Here is my handle here is my spout’ How does the rest of the song go? I was convinced it was “Incey Wincey spider dad a dad a dada.” Apparently not though. I’ve still to really see photos from the night.. but a LOT were taken. We went into Oz bar and had to get a kiss off a girl.. unfortunately the girl I picked had already been asked by the 8 other teams! All the teams ended up in three sisters and this is where things get pretty hazy! Swapped back clothes with Kate and then just drank loadsof vodka. Me and Kim(apparently) thought that they would give us the doubles in wee tiny glasses(like in the hive), so we bought 2 at a time and they came in big massive things. This is what I’m told.. I’m not too sure what was going on. There was some kind of awards ceremony in the courtyard, then I vaguely remember getting in a taxi, but that’s about it.

Tuesday – Woke up properly fucked, covered in so many bruises that I could barely walk. Like I had a limp for 3 days. I had a massive bruise on my hip, bruise’s on both my elbows and bruises on the palms of my hands. What the hell happened. I got a text from Sean later being like ‘You got carried out of Lulu, you are my hero’. I was in Lulu?? Apparently we all went to Lulu, and one after the other we all got chucked out. I don’t remember any of this, but it’s all good. I just wish I knew where these bruises came from! Went over to Santans and bought a Haggis Pizza, Chocolate Buttons yoghurt and a bottle of orange juice(even though i had orange juice in the flat already). Cooked my pizza and started working at the phones. Quite hungover.. I went down to Pizza Corner, John met me there. I got a doner, he got a chicken. Pretty tasty stuff. Went up to the flat and played a bit of guitar hero. We were planning to be at sam’s by about 730. We left the flat at maybe 830/840. John somehow convinced me to go to Chloes. John managed to doorknob me a fucker. The bad thing is that he went easy on me.. in my crippled state I was in no condition to push past him to a doorknow(which btw, chloe has none of). Stayed there for half an hour then made a move to Sam’s. Stopped off at Scotmid for a couple tins of Tyskie and a bottle of wine. Got to Sam’s door and there was some girl there. We were like ‘you going to Sam’s?’ she said yeah. John introduced himself and she was like ‘I’m amy’. But she completely ignored me, so I went ‘Yeah, and I’m Crusher’. She was like “yeah.. I know you”. Where from? When from? “Well, for one thing.. You got chucked out of Luluz last night! And the other, I went out with John McGee 4 years ago.” Turns out she had been working on the cash desk in Lulu. Apparently I hadn’t been carried out. She saw me just kindof standing there in a daze, not really moving, and then the bouncer just kindof guided me out. It still doesn’t explain the bruising! So we went up and got to Sam’s door. She was like ‘this isn’t where Sam lives’..yes it is.. ‘no..’ yes.. wait, is Sam a boy or a girl ‘a girl!’ oh.. different Sam!. So she went upstairs, and we went in to the real Sam’s flat. We were greeted by Jo singing me my drunken song “I went to the doctors guess what he told me? He said ‘girl you gotta try and have fun no matter what you do’.. He’s a fool!” Went into Stalk’s room and the whole of the 1f1 boys were KO’d on his bed, Liam was getting in his dressing gown just about to go to sleep. Went through to the kitchen and there was this fucking weird boy sitting on a stool playing guitar, singing in falsetto... damn did he love college. Noone knew who he was or spoke to him. Oh, did I mention it was Sam’s birthday – everyone had been in the meadows drinking/smoking since 1030am.. hence was absolutely cunted. Amy and the girl Sam came down after a couple of minutes.. turns out they were Sam’s hot neighbours. Steel was absolutely baked, so I talked with him about bass for like 40 minutes. What do I think of him as a player, what does he think of me, what do we think of other people, what other people do we hate, isn’t bass the best instrument, having so many jobs stops me from progressing with me instrument. Etcetc. We’ve had this conversation a million times. I love drinking..and i love girls.. but damn do we love college. John had worked his way through the second bottle of wine, and thus started putting people in headlocks. I had only brought 2 cans with me, and so I ran out pretty quick. John took an absolute stinker of a shite which meant no one could go in to the toilet. I waited a few minutes then went in brandishing an incense candle which cancelled out the poo. Everyone in the flat sang Sinead ‘O’ connor for a while, before moving onto the fact that we all love college, drinking and girls. Daisy arrived at some stage. We planned to go to the hive, and we did. Everyone was wanting to walk.. It would have literally taken me an hour to walk to the hive, so i jumped in a taxi with the girls. Caitlin forgot everything, so girl Sam lent her money. Got into the hive, some guy started chanting at me in the toilet.. weird. Went round and had a jagerbomb with the girls. There goes me taking it easy right out of the window. The rest of the walking crew arrived. More jager. Ramage was there, spoke with him for a bit. The legend of a barman was there, so I drinking ‘the usual’. Pretty good. Loadsof other people came, Fraser, Cav, Fergus, others.. I got drunk after a while.. I think Barry was there too! Fraser tells me he has become a semi-professional poker player since I last seen him. He apparently won £2000 in a week. Bloody dick. I found out that one of the barstaff at the hive lives next door to me! Waay. John was trying to get me to go to Mulan Rouge..na. It was carries birthday, i wanted to go to stereo with them.. but I had already spent all of my money. And stereo ain’t free. I did a jager bomb(or more than one), then things get hazy again. I remember seeing Robbie, and I’m sure I spent a lot of time dancing with him and some girls.. They were familiar but I can’t think where from(probably the hive..since I’m there all the time!).

Wednesday – I woke up.. I don’t know how I got home, but I did! I was meant to be doing the phone job, but my internet was being a dick so I couldn’t. I spent over an hour fucking about with connections etc but still no luck. Did anyone else in Polwarth experience this? Bloody bastards. Went up to my parents – It took me an hour and a half to walk because of my limp!! What the hell. I bumped into Sam and Caitlin who were eating sushi in a church(surely that’s some kind of sin! We had some chat about the night before, then I went on my way. I had some tea(Felicity made Carbonara) I slept a fair amount, and I had a bath. Which felt great considering all my bruises. Eventually I got out of bed and jumped on a bus down to Leith for a Music Foundry meeting. We discussed ways to get myself more business, and ideas for a summer school we are hoping to run. It was good to meet with the other tutor(guitar – he’s stealing all the students). We had quite a good chat, some promising ideas – It actually gave me a lot more hope for my future with this company – that they are actually trying to get me business, rather than just ignoring me! I was hungry on the way home, I considered buying a naan bread or something. In the end I settled with a nice Donner from Pizza Corner – Laura – What have you done! You’ve left me and now I cant stop eating kebabs!! Damn you. I am going to try and make a sustained effort to eat better and budget from this day forth.

Thursday – Finally, I am no longer hungover. YES! That’s how it works. I went to teach Ben – I really need to properly organise my teaching stuff, get some CD’s and backing tracks made etc. Next week! Met Hazel on the bus back, she’s like me – working loadsof days – but she’s at uni too. She refuses to have a pool party because she doesn’t have the key or something! Damn her. Dropped my stuff off, played Craig at a quick game of Fifa(quick 3 games) I beat him of course. We decided to go crap teams – I went Sampdoria and they were alright like. After that I walked up to my folks – It didn’t take and hour and a half this time, more like 40mins, which is a bit more respectable, although still not great. I had a bath and some tea etc. Chili con carne which was actually very nice, although I was still pretty starving after it! I had a bath, watched some family guy then went to bed!

Friday – Got up, quite lazy. Had a total pig out on some food. Cornflakes for breakfast. Followed quickly by loadsof chicken then a pizza(the pizza smelt like vomit unfortunately). I then walked down the road. Went to Tesco for a shop. I bought a load of crap. It’s so hard. Can a nutritionist please accompany me next time I go. Got home, watched some Smallville then went to work. Apparently I had been fucked on Monday – but you know how the rumour mill spreads, and apparently I not only got thrown out of Luluz.. but I passed out and had to be carried out by the bouncers. This did not happen. I have had the benefit of speaking with the only sober girl of the night(amy-who works at luluz), and she said I was on my feet. Apparently there was no scandal, just a lot of drunkenness. I had some scampi for my tea! The shift was shit. The dj had the music on SOO loud, I could not hear a thing and my ears got absolutely pummelled. I was also stressing out and coming close to punching people who decided that while standing next to the speaker, the best way for me to hear what they wanted was by whispering. Fucking twats. Especially this Irish stag party.. I almost never served one of them cos he was pissing me off so much. The night just dragged and dragged. Veitch came in to visit me, although I didn’t get to chat to him much because the place was so damned busy. He has had a lot more tattoos done on his arm – looked pretty cool! Joanna also came into visit me. I think that’s the first time I’ve seen her when she’s not jumped on me and then ignored me a few minutes later.. I served some dick(mini hulk Hogan) and he walked off before I gave him his change. 5 minutes later he came back and started screaming at me for his change. I was like mate. Fuck off, I’l get to you in a minute. You can’t have access to your change whenever the fuck you want, you get it when you buy the drinks or you get it later. Fucking dick. I was glad to get home. I think I probably watched an episode of Smallville when I got in too. Reaching the end of the series, serious..I don’t even know why I watch it, its not that good.

Saturday – Spent the whole day in bed, - pretty bad, considering it looked gorgeous outside! On the other hand, I did get myself completely up to date with Smallville. That had better not be the end of the series cos it was a shit ending. I actually had tickets to go and see Frightened Rabbit tonight in Sneaky Petes. I had been planning all week to pull a sicky and go to it. But this morning my conscience(and the fact that Sneaky Pete’s is right next to biddys and i would almost definitely get seen by someone) got the better of me, and I didn’t go. I’ve seen them before, and I’ll see them again. But still...... Gutting. I sold one of my tickets to Andy’s friend. Gutting. Went into work, and I was in a surprisingly good mood. I had a nice juicy burger with bacon and cheese on it for my tea, and quite a good night – The dj wasn’t playing too loud Not long after she started I was gonna ask her to play Calvin harris at some stage. She played it twice! Legend. She also played the Subways! Legend. She was getting a bit ridiculous with Poker Face though.. 4 times throughout the night!! There was a couple of random power surges throughout the night – A legendary moment was during journey. The power cut out but everyone kept singing. Fucking great. I was chatting to this girl, she used the phrase ‘my friend thinks your barry’ while her friend was standing next to her blushing. Haha, amazing. What a phrase. Also a group of (hot) Irish girls declared me as the best thing to happen in their night(because I told them they could get student discount..they were students). This really hot girl though.. I know her from somewhere, I just cant think where. Kindof strange since she lives in Ireland. Oh infact, it might just be that she looks like that bird on Something for the weekend. At the end, John had chucked some Italian builders out(who had actually been staying at the Hotel for over a year!) because he thought they stole a bottle of corona. Radek was helping me bring the furniture down from upstairs, and these (6) Italians came bursting through the door, wanting to speak to security. I was like na guys were shut, yet they came through. Fair enough.. I want to get home.. I don’t want to get my head kicked in by some Italian builders. Someone else can deal with it. Came down the lift and all I could hear was lots of shouting(bastardo, Mario etc). Shaun(who wasn’t even working) was stuck in the middle the Italians trying to calm them down. Next time I came down, they were all shouting at John and he was speaking in Italian, telling them to fuck off cos he was Scottish or something. That’s what all good pastry chefs do. Next time I came down they were all apologising to each other. Crisis averted. Had a quick pint and home.

Sunday – Got out of bed about 145, I had a quick shower. Aidan and Dom came up. Time to book Spain holiday. We managed to get a flight to Malaga for £50 no problem. Aidan was incharge of the computer. We then were looking for a homeward bound flight. Aidan spent ages and had no luck. He then went to the toilet. Within 30 seconds of him going, I had found us a flight from Alicante for free! Once tax and stuff got included it was £40.. but still! We’re going to spain! Me, Craig, Aid and Dom. Gonna be fucking brilliant. We also used this opportunity to plan out the whole of June. 5th,6th,7th – Take the campervan away somewhere with Kara’s campervan(but she’s turning into a frog and so isn’t coming)- Still hopefully do that. 10th June – Flat party to celebrate my birthday(Biannual Polwarth Garden’s party too). 11th June – Some sort of food with my folks, then probably go see DMH at Cab vol. Since they are my best mates and if I don’t go with them then I wont have any friends for my birthday. 12th June – We fly to Malaga. 24th June – We Fly home from Alicante. 25th June – The Marvels, DMH and Boycotts at Sneaky Petes. A bit of rest, then T in the park. An issue with all of this is money. I then went back to bed, got up and went to work. My teeth have been hurting a little bit.. not that sore, but its a bit of an annoyance! I had a steak sandwich for tea. It was alright likes. Hurt my teeth a wee bit. Not a bad shift, that Irish band were playing.. They were ok. I was on the front bar for most of the night, So I didn’t need any earplugs. That group of Irish Girls were in. Good girls. It was dead for most of the night, but then at 12 a load of people came in. Got finished up.. I was considering(strongly) going to cappadoccia, but I managed to resist and I got a taxi home. Super noodles – then bed.

Next week – Work, work, work. I’m not spending any money until june. I can’t afford to. Gig on the Monday, radio on the Tuesday, work work work.