Awesome night.
Wow, I just had an awesome night :)
As you may have deduced by my final exam being this morning, my exams for this semester are over! Initially, I was left with a stranded, empty feeling... When you lose such a strong focus so suddenly, it does odd things to one's psyche.
The perfect solution, however, was to go out and have some fun! Yes, I know what you're thinking... 'Go... OUT?!?' - But that I did. I was invited to go bowling with Chris and his friends. Understand that I've never met his friends before, and I'm not usually one for meeting new people, or even going out. My mood at that point was still depressed, and I was in one of those states of minds where you'd agree to anything (much like I was when I decided to start going to London), just to be doing something - so I agreed. I started to regret it soon after. "I've no idea who these people are!" I thought. The potential to get molested is always higher when you involve more people.
The night wore on. It opened well, I got a strike, a 9, then two strikes! My best run ever - My play deteriorated soon after, but I finished with a not too disrespectable 92 (given my initial score however, that was of course terrible). The bowling game was a little uncomfortable - Chris' friend and his two flat-mates were the other participants. Chris' friend was excellent. He just WAS Andrew (Whyton). I immediately liked him, if anything for the resemblence, but the fact that he acted in almost the exact same way only made it better :) However, the other two flat-mates were very anti-social... Which just made it a bit hard, given that I didn't have much of a hook into Mike (the Andrew look-alike) and I couldn't talk to them... Things were soon to get better though.
We were about to drive back to The Hobbit, but I decided to walk because I wasn't feeling great (I stupidly decided to have some beer - didn't even finish my pint :p) - And so I walked to The Hobbit. The walk invigorated me and not only did I feel better physically, but it improved my mood somewhat too (although by then, I had already cheered up a little). When we got to The Hobbit, I found them sitting at a table upstairs (usually a hard place to secure) with two new girls (the two anti-social ones had left and gone to The Dungeon - hurray!). I introduced myself and we all had a bit of a chat and it was nice :)
We progressed out to the beer garden, where there were more new people! I introduced myself to a couple, but we were still two seperate groups at that point, so not much happened. At this point, I got to know Mike a little better - he does Politics, and he's a very no-nonsense kinda chap. At the same time though, he's charming and quite a laugh - JUST like Andrew, it's uncanny... So me, Mike, Chris and a new girl, Sarah, were all chatting a bit... And out of nowhere, my friend (and Chris') Mat turns around! Mat's always a good laugh, so that livened things up a bit right there
To make a long and not-so-interesting story short, the rest of the night was just pleasant conversation, a dildo (bought as a joke from the women's toilets for this guy - That was Mat's group that did that though, not ours), meeting more new people (theatre people, James! You'd have loved them...) and a nice atmosphere :)
I think tonight has gone some way to curing me of my slight fear of going out and social occassions... All three of us are a bit hermit-like, but I'd say I was the worst of us before today...
Anyway, as you may be able to tell, I'm in a good mood!
The exam didn't go particularly well (not as well as any of the others anyway, except maybe compiler engineering...), but I don't care :)
As you may have deduced by my final exam being this morning, my exams for this semester are over! Initially, I was left with a stranded, empty feeling... When you lose such a strong focus so suddenly, it does odd things to one's psyche.
The perfect solution, however, was to go out and have some fun! Yes, I know what you're thinking... 'Go... OUT?!?' - But that I did. I was invited to go bowling with Chris and his friends. Understand that I've never met his friends before, and I'm not usually one for meeting new people, or even going out. My mood at that point was still depressed, and I was in one of those states of minds where you'd agree to anything (much like I was when I decided to start going to London), just to be doing something - so I agreed. I started to regret it soon after. "I've no idea who these people are!" I thought. The potential to get molested is always higher when you involve more people.
The night wore on. It opened well, I got a strike, a 9, then two strikes! My best run ever - My play deteriorated soon after, but I finished with a not too disrespectable 92 (given my initial score however, that was of course terrible). The bowling game was a little uncomfortable - Chris' friend and his two flat-mates were the other participants. Chris' friend was excellent. He just WAS Andrew (Whyton). I immediately liked him, if anything for the resemblence, but the fact that he acted in almost the exact same way only made it better :) However, the other two flat-mates were very anti-social... Which just made it a bit hard, given that I didn't have much of a hook into Mike (the Andrew look-alike) and I couldn't talk to them... Things were soon to get better though.
We were about to drive back to The Hobbit, but I decided to walk because I wasn't feeling great (I stupidly decided to have some beer - didn't even finish my pint :p) - And so I walked to The Hobbit. The walk invigorated me and not only did I feel better physically, but it improved my mood somewhat too (although by then, I had already cheered up a little). When we got to The Hobbit, I found them sitting at a table upstairs (usually a hard place to secure) with two new girls (the two anti-social ones had left and gone to The Dungeon - hurray!). I introduced myself and we all had a bit of a chat and it was nice :)
We progressed out to the beer garden, where there were more new people! I introduced myself to a couple, but we were still two seperate groups at that point, so not much happened. At this point, I got to know Mike a little better - he does Politics, and he's a very no-nonsense kinda chap. At the same time though, he's charming and quite a laugh - JUST like Andrew, it's uncanny... So me, Mike, Chris and a new girl, Sarah, were all chatting a bit... And out of nowhere, my friend (and Chris') Mat turns around! Mat's always a good laugh, so that livened things up a bit right there
To make a long and not-so-interesting story short, the rest of the night was just pleasant conversation, a dildo (bought as a joke from the women's toilets for this guy - That was Mat's group that did that though, not ours), meeting more new people (theatre people, James! You'd have loved them...) and a nice atmosphere :)
I think tonight has gone some way to curing me of my slight fear of going out and social occassions... All three of us are a bit hermit-like, but I'd say I was the worst of us before today...
Anyway, as you may be able to tell, I'm in a good mood!
The exam didn't go particularly well (not as well as any of the others anyway, except maybe compiler engineering...), but I don't care :)
posted by Chris at 2:12 am
