Its just the way that her hair fell down around her face, and I recall my fall from grace

Dayum, I need a job. Lately I've been playing a lot of Oblivion. Perhaps too much. For example, when i went downstairs yesterday to grab something to eat, my dad complained about me jacking apricots. I immediatly though he was going to alert the guards, and though I had better get my sword out and silence him. Then I realised I was back in the real world. Nick tells me a similar story of how when walking down the road, he saw a plant and wondered what he could harvest from it. Oblivion does link to the reason why i need a job, 'cause my computer, something which is central to my life, needs upgrading, badly. Out of the orginal components in my computer, I think only my proccesor, my floppy drive and one of my CD drives are the only ones that remain. However, I do need to improve a lot of things. I need more RAM so that games such as oblivion run more smoothly, and I need a proccesor and new graphics card for the same reason. I also need a new hard drive, as mine is pretty much full. A new motherboard is probaly needed in order to support these upgrades. In order to get all these things, I'm looking in something in the region of about £500 or £600 quid. This is money I really don't have. I'm currently in debt by about £60, plus I want to get a new mp3 player as my iPod is slowly dying, and thats like another £200 quid I don't have. So if anyone who reads this knows where I can get a job (not that anyone really does) please tell me. Anyway, on to the events of the past week. School, as usual, was boring. However, thanks to the fact that i have dropped geography, I now have a lot more free periods, meaning I can take tuesday and wednesday morning off. Thursday was an awful day, as me and mike got refused entry to the Koko when we went to see Hope of The States, as it was over 18s only. So we wasted like £16 on a gig we didn't get into. Friday was kates party, where yet again myself saul mike dean and innes showed how much of a bunch of alcoholics our year is, drinking easily twice as much as the other people there. Mr Innes (hes a real person really) ended up throwing up, and I ended up sleeping over, which wasn't in the original plan. Certain other things happened, but I don't particuarly want to mention them here. On saturday me mike and nick saw art garfunkel in kenwood house, which was awesome, if amazingly posh. The golden circle was an area full of deck chairs, and in the main area people were sitting around with picnic baskets and sipping champagne. Instead of beer and burgers being on sale, there was Pimms, coffee wine, deck chairs and varios M&S products, as they were sponsoring the event. In the spirit of it, me and nick bought a bottle of wine, but we had to get mike to finish it, as my stomach was still a bit iffy after the alcohol consumption from the night before. That and it wasn't exactly great wine. Garfunkel played a great set, with all the big hits except "I am a rock", and we all went home happy. Sunday I did nothing except play oblivion and a tiny bit of work. Monday morning I played oblivion, went into school where I discovered my lesson was cancelled, meaning I had only one lesson. And today i had one lesson so I stayed at home to sleep and play oblivion. And now I'm looking at custom PCs costing upwards of a grand and praying.

You can't buy us with your dollar bills

I have 30 brusies about my person. But it was so worth it. But I'm getting ahead of myself, first comes mikes party on friday. After some serious last minute organising of people to come get alcy, I headed off to sainsburys to be met by saul paul and ardy. We got alcohol, and went over to mikes, arriving at about 7. Mikes neighbours were standing outside at the time, as they were for everyone else arriving. Problem is that mike was only allowed 3 people over. So he may be a dead man. Anyway, We started drinking straight away pretty much, and just sat down and talked for a bit at first, while everyone got a bit merry. People eventually started moving around into the kitchen, upstairs, especially when there was a gamers charge to mikes room in order to check out Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, which turned out to be amazing. Unfortunately, I don't have space on my hard drive for it right now. Time for a defragmentation, and also buying a new hard drive. I ended up getting fairly drunk, chatted outside with gareth for a bit, held gemmas hair as she threw up the vodka I had bought for her, and generally did the whole drunken party thing, except with a lot more beer bongs. I crashed out on mikes bed at about 4 in the morning, waking up again around 6, laying there for a few hours before mike came in to inform he would shortly be leaving for music school. Me nick and ardy hung around and cleaned up for a bit, and I left mike a couple of presents for when he got back, but generally I was a good boy, and even locked up when I left at about 10. I then went home, ate, played some Guild Wars, had a lay down, then went to adams t around 4:30. Most of the time there was spent in the pool, where we messed around for an hour or so before playing water polo for a good few hours, which was great fun. Though generally adam annoys me, I often feel sorry for him, and sometimes he can be pretty cool, and thankfully he was being pretty cool yesterday. After going in the pool we had a BBQ, which was tasty. I went home at about 8, but failed at getting an early night 'cause I played Guild Wars. Next morning at 8 quirke called on me, and we headed over to hillingdon station, where TomoG picked us up, and we headed off to paintballing. The day was pretty effectively awesome, even if I did spend about 25 quid on extra paintballs. But all of us did really. We played 8 different games of 4 different fields, as we played one game then swapped ends of swapped from attack to defence. You got points and stuff for doing different things. I ended up switching teams halfway through, as most of the people doing it had booked only 6 games, and pauls brothers friends chose me to come onto their team. Maybe I should have sucked more then I wouldn't have been chosen to change onto the opposite team. Another bad thing about the kids finishing before us was that they unloaded all their bullets early. And at one point I got it unloaded on me, being hit 7 times in the back. I did get us a ton of points though. But the little shits should have stopped firing when they got me once. As mentioned earlier, I have a total of about 30 bruises. This is partly because I ran forward a lot, and therefore got shot a lot, and also 'cause half the time the bullets didn't explode. I see no point in hanging back, its no fun. So I say the more bruises you got, the more awesome time you had. And on that logic, my day rocked. Which it did. And now I need to sleep before I fall asleep and get QWERTY imprinted on my face. Its happened before.

May have gone almost 3 weeks without posting. Woops. However, in my defence, most of that time was during exams, when pretty much nothing at all happened. On the saturday of half term I went to siobhans for a BBQ, and that was pretty much my total social interaction for the half term. History and politics went better than I expected, so I'm pretty much safe for straight B's at the very least, or so I hope. The saturday after the exams was the end of AS party at mine. I begain drinking at 2, while having a few people over to watch the football. Despite the fact that I have totally no interestin football, I figured it was better than do nothing. And also an excuse to start drinking. My 'rents eventually left at around half 3, at which point richy c pilch and innes were sent off to get alcy. People started arriving from about 4, and soon after the alcohol arrive. A lot of alcohol.

That much alcohol, to be exact. About 8 crates of beer, 5 crates of alcopops and other random crap. Needlesses to say, it was a most excellent evening with numerous drunk people. Both the sams threw up, with sam kear throwing up on my living room floor, which wasn't too pleasant. Sam the Yob mainly stayed outside. Other events of the evening included ben going absolutely mental for some reason, resulting in about five of us having to hold him back. Lots of people used the pool (hench why I've spent the last few days changing the filter 'cause its so damn dirty) and a few people went down the end of the road to egg kents house, which was just classic. Oh, and matt persuaded me to hit a bong. I went from semi fucked to totally fucked in one hit, as this photo shows. Taken just after said bong.Don't I just look totally and utterly stupid?

Eventually at about 4AM I threw som sleeping bags downstairs and went to sleep for a couple of hours. The next day I spent limping around and tidying up, thanks to the fact that I totally messed up my ankle at some points of the evening. Thankfully matt danni duncan and richy c stayed around to help, with special thanks going to danni for doing a ton to help, and ben and abbie for helping in the morning while I was still sleeping. Unfortunately there was holes in the trampoline from fag butts or something, my pool had gone totally murky, and the area of grass beside my pool had become a marsh. My 'rents came home about 11:30, and they wern't best pleased, saying that it was the last party I would be having while they're away. Now I've been enjoying my first few days back at school. Not. Off to mikes tonight, and then paintballing on sunday. You better watch your back paul, or your a dead man.