Bits and pieces, the penultimate episode.

Well I am basically blogging through lack of anything to do, all my flatmates have gone home and I’m only here to go to my hockey social this evening. Most of my stuff has already been taken home, so I’m left with a couple of sets of clothes, my computer, a book, a sleeping bag, wash stuff and half a bottle of wine. Granted the last of those could make any of the previous items seem distinctly more fun, but if I start drinking now, I’ll actually die tomorrow morning when trying to get the train home.

So anyway, what have I been up to since I arrived back in good ol’ Shottingham? Well Friday night was Hannah’s last night in Nottingham so naturally we had to go out and get very drunk. Hannah has become one of my best friends here this year, I met her through hockey but we’ve been out so many times without the hockey lot, there has been endless trouble. But she’s going to China for the year next year, and unless I do a fourth year (which in fairness I probably will) I won’t get to see her often again! So as it was Friday naturally we went to Ocean, Nottingham’s only 100% student nightclub! Unfortunately it was also the last day of exams, so the queue was huuuuge. We got there at about quarter past nine knowing it was busy and it was already queuing along the front wall, in front of the burger van, then again up the other side of the pavement, that being said it moved quite quickly. We were in there just after ten so can’t complain, and it didn’t seem like a long wait either. It was a classic Ocean Friday, the same amount of cheese, the same amount of drink, just ten times the amount of sweat, it was so packed! That being said it did stick out in the memory a bit more than most Ocean’s tend to, in that I indirectly gave a guy a blood nose, as Matty so delightfully referred to in his own blog. I was with this guy, who for your information was HOT. Anyway then this other dude comes up and started dancing with me, but only in like a friendly way so I was messing around too. Then before I knew it, I was talking to Hannah at the moment of impact, the guy I’d been with was streaming blood from his nose. Men fighting over me, fancy that!

Anyway on Saturday it was the Summer Party, which was an absolutely amazing day. I have to say though, they definitely mucked up the line up. Lethal Bizzle was on at about five o’clock but easily had a bigger and more active audience than anyone (except maybe Goldie Lookin Chain) until The Maccabees at half past nine. And in fact, I enjoyed some of the acts prior to Lethal Bizzle, most notably, The Franks (http://www.myspace.com/thefranksuk), (the lead guitarist was HOT) and Bipolar Bear, much more than some of the ones that followed, The Courteeners for example, didn’t live up to my hopes. But no seriously a really good day, Lethal Bizzle was brilliant, GLC were as entertaining as ever and told us all to start taking drugs and give three cheers for Red Tube, The Maccabees were pretty awesome, but one of the most uncool looking bands out there, and the fat old drummer from Fun Loving Criminals did a stage dive, I’m surprised he wasn’t hurt, I’d have leapt out of the way.

Good day all round although I was exhausted by the end, but seriously if nothing else check out The Franks on myspace they’re brilliant. ‘Take you r hands off me, I don’t know where they’ve been, I don’t know what they mean’.

Then on Sunday pretty much all my family descended on Nottingham for my Dad’s 50^th birthday. I t was a bit weird I have to be honest, I kind of felt like they were invading my university life. We weren’t in Nottingham proper for that long at least, as the restaurant we were in was a bit of Nottingham. The food was good actually and the conversation was just plain bizarre. It ranged from my cousin’s Yorkshire pudding looking like Stalin, to building tunnels out of books for Germans, kissing deer and marketing tumbleweed. Still I had a good enough day in the end, I’m not complain at free food, wine and champagne, oh and cake.

Anyhow since that I’ve been bumming around and waiting for tonight. Watched the I’d Do Anything final on iPlayer, I’m not surprised Jodie won, she had a huge popular following, I just feel a bit cheated that in the end it was the stereotypical Nancy that won. And I’ve also been watching a couple of episodes of Skins as I never finished the second series as something distracted me. Just seen episode six, so you never know, might finish it before I go to America. Who am I kidding?