[302] Bad night September 28th, 2002 – 12:32pm Posted in Bad Things, Events No comments

I originally wrote this as a post on the forum at about three last morning, but this is probably a better place for it.

Well I’ve just had my first unpleasant experience here in Preston and in the absence of any real friends here yet I’ve only got you lot to turn to and I’m feeling a bit lonely at this time of the morning so I hope I’m not intruding on you by whinging for a bit. Stop reading if you don’t like these kind of self-indulgent posts because it is one of those self-indulgent posts.

Deciding to go out to watch the United game tonight was a bad idea in hindsight. It started OK having a few drinks with Roland who is the guy who lives with me but after the game he persuaded me to go to the union bar which I’d found to be quite shite and full …read more.

[81] “Sponsored by” adverts September 28th, 2002 – 5:48am Posted in Bad Things, Daft No comments

The mini-adverts at the beginning and end of advert breaks sponsoring particular programmes – Cadbury’s and Coronation Street, for example – that have spread like SARS in a whorehouse. These started, I seem to recall, during Euro 2000 with some excruciatingly wanky Vauxhall adverts. If all a job in advertising seems to be is coming up with achingly patronising, cliched naff (which incidentally comes from the gay term “not available for fucking”) fuck-slogans like these, I think I’ll go into it when I leave uni. If I hear that Coke tune on The Goal Rush one more time…

[303] First few days at uni September 20th, 2002 – 12:33pm Posted in Events No comments

Things have been going really well so far at uni; I’ve been very surprised. I’m living in a nice room in an okay house with two decent lads, all the course crap sounds easy enough, I’ve been meeting people… it’s going better than I could have hoped. Amazingly most of this has been done without drink, ’cause I’ve been a bit rough this week and only been out a couple of times.

I’ve been impressed with the house; it’s big enough for three of us, and Roland and Ryan are alright. I’ve been spending more time with Roland than anyone ’cause Ryan doesn’t drink very often and I’ve only been to a couple of course meetings so it’s been a bit slow meeting other people. I got a bit disillusioned last night when I was on my first night out for three days and was ready to go to the Warehouse …read more.

[304] Camping it up in Wales September 6th, 2002 – 12:34pm Posted in Events No comments

Got back from camping in Wales yesterday, and although I’m aching like a bitch I’ve got to say it turned out really well. It was great, in fact. I think we were all very impressed with the woodland, and I had a lot of fun. A few great drinking games were played and after those, well, we were guaranteed to have a good time. Sarah was the Sarah we know and love, Steven cooked a cracking chilli and Simon was, well, Simon. And I, well, I was having a great time and was so distracted I completely forgot about being ill for two days and only started to feel pain again on the way home.

The first night was quite sedate but there was a quite interesting discussion in the pitch black in which we discovered Sarah is 90% sex. After fannying about during the day, on the second night we …read more.

[305] Redesigned the site September 3rd, 2002 – 12:35pm Posted in Events No comments

I gave the site a new look, ’cause I was bored and can’t drink. Hope you like it. The Ladies page in particular is now a little more serious.

My mystery illness has been worse over the last week or two and it’s really starting to annoy me. I’ve gotten so used to just going for a drink when I want, with working and having money and all, that it’s been dificuly trying to cut down. I’ve managed it a few times but given in equally as often. For the next few days I’m going to try my best to detox and just not drink at all; it’ll be the first weekend I haven’t had a drink for the last three years, but it’ll be worth it if it means I feel good when we go camping next Monday. Which is something to brighten the horizons; as absurd as it …read more.