And Relax

Thursday - Friday
Unsuprisingly, worked all day. Went into the computing labs in the Geography department to work later-on and ended up pulling an all nighter (first time I've ever done that). The geo department is an old hospital, which made the whole thing rather creepy, especially when the security men came around and turned off all the lights except in the lab! Didn't help that I was by this point having hallucinations due to sleep deprivation! But got the work done, printed, bound and handed in on time, so that's all that really counts. Also got a call from the producer at classic fm asking if I wanted to make a request on-air (I had emailed the day before asking to hear the Anvil Chorus), so I did that too, which was pretty damn cool :) Then went to the pub; met Dave and Nick D. there, but they both had to head away fairly quickly. Was soon joined by Alison, so we had dinner and a nice chat before Chris arrived. Lou joined us after, and we ended up playing Monopoly which was fun except for the fact that Chris thrashed the rest of us :( so we called him a Fat Capitalist Pie. Lou disappeared cause she's still working on her dissertation, so Alison Chris and I hung around for a while longer. By this point I was past tiredness and into the manic phase, which is always fun, but seriously concidering going to bed when I got a call from Maya saying that she, Jay, Doug, Gareth, Anna and a friend of Gareth's were on their way over, so the evening was extended. Had a nice time and chatted to Doug about his newly aquired job at Google - delighted for him and also utterly jealous, but he deserves it having worked so hard. Decided that hallucinations were really getting quite bad so went home.

Saturday
woke up around midday. Still shattered and couldn't move for love nor money, and spent a considerable time crying cause I felt so weak! Think it was a combination of sleep deprivation then having slept a lot, lack of adrenalin, and the lack of deadlines - but whatever it was I was a wreck. Managed to pull self together enough to get up and see a friend's production of The Tempest - was very high standard inspite of the fact that the lead man could not appear for personal reasons. Instead they did a show-case of the rest of the scenes and a Q and A session to fill in the gaps at the end. Set was great given the space avaliable, costume was great (especially for Ariel who they painted blue). Then went for a walk in the sunshine which was lovely. Spent the evening with Chris watching Boston Legal.

Today
Another late start. Read I Capture the Castle again (forgot how much I love it). Came back to the flat (also forgot what a State I left it in). Going to Sainsbury's in a bit, then possibly on a Ghost Tour with Maya and Jay.