Tuesday, June 10
What A Day
What a fucking day! I've barely stopped all day, been doing something almost every waking minute.
A bad start was having to wake up at 7.15am to take my roommate to the airport so he could fly home. I'd forgotten 7.15am exsited! I was in a daze for the first ten minutes after I woke up but soon sorted myself out. The state of the kitchen on our floor kinda woke me up. It was in such an unbelievable mess it wasn't even funny. Therefore I skipped breakfast...
The day got even worse once I got to Heathrow Airport itself. I pulled into the car park, and was sat in a queue of traffic a couple of levels up. I decided to turn into a different section and go up another level to make finding a space easier. Unfortunately I somehow misjudged the turn, and ended up banging my car quite severely into another one, already parked. It caused the front corner of my bumper to come off, as you can see in this picture, and I was dumbstruck. I jumped out of the car immediately to see what damage had been done, and I swear that I've never sworn so loudly and frequently in a public place before. See, it's not my car. It's my Mum's, but I've got it with me in London for the rest of the week, then I'll load it up with all of my stuff and drive it home on Friday night. My Mum warned me not to have an accident in it because by putting me on her insurance, her excess went up to £500, meaning we have to pay the first £500 of any claim, rather than the £50 that it is usually. I was upset slightly, because it was my first accident in the 2 years + that I've been driving. What makes me feel even worse is that I forgot / neglected to leave a note for the other car explaining what had happened and offering to pay for any paintwork touch-ups that needed doing. I feel really, really bad about that.
I said goodbye to my roommate in a weird stupor, still dulled by the accident. It's going to be weird without him, I've got used to him being around. Thankfully there weren't any tears, just a proper manly hug. My room is half-emtpy now, and there's another week to go yet before I go home. Oh well, I guess that's another chapter closed in my life...
I finally plucked up the courage to ring my parents and tell them about the accident around 12.30. That was a surreal experience too, especially since my Dad had apparently had a few problems with work, causing my Mum to be fairly upset already. I didn't speak to my Dad, thank God, because he was in such a bad mood that he would have bitten my head off. I still reckon that I'm going to get lynched when I go home this Friday. I emailed them a picture of the damage as well, and my Mum got hold of a local garage, who reckoned a new bumper would cost around £60. This was a relief, I was expecting at least 3 figures to get a new one.
Once that was all over and done with, I went down to Regent's Park with a few friends. We sat around for a bit, then got a game of rounders going. Rounders is the British version of Baseball, but better, especially since we were playing with a little kiddies-type set: foam ball and foam padded bat. Girls v Guys is always fun, and it got better because we were uncertain of the rules, meaning they were kind of made up on the fly. Guys won, of course. Me and Liz messed around with some plastic tennis racquets and another foam ball for a while, which was a laugh, then me and Chris started getting a few rallys going, complete with over-extravagant shots and leaps into the air. All good fun.
Whilst on the subject of Liz, I think I've come to the conclusion that she is into me in some way. She seems to have got really friendly over the past few weeks, a lot more so than usual. I'm not quite sure if I've read this right or what, because I'm the worst person ever at spotting this kind of sign from a girl. And seeing as we've only got a few more days before we all go home, I can't see anything major coming from it. Which is a shame, because as you can see in her photo, she's stunning, plus she's also just a really nice girl, a genuine friendly person. Unfortunately a smoker, but I can make an exception. Don't hold your breath waiting for a result though...
koRn - Blind
koRn - Tear Me Down
Masterminds - Memories
Ian van Dahl - Castles In The Sky (Remix)
