Aber - your friendly alternative to sanity

I've just had about the wierdest 48 hours in quite a long time. It all started yesterday (saturday) went out for a drink with some friends, went to a couple of pubs, but people I was with were not all that interested on carrying on, gave matt a ring, and ended going up the hill with him and a few others. Got to the union, and it was really bizarre to realise that I knew so many people, ended up trying pints with blue aftershock in - had about 4, learned that things that taste nice at the time usually have implications in the morning :| I think we randomly ended up in someones house in the early hours, no idea who they were, and I also have vague memories of us sitting in our kitchen with some random girls from town.

After a fairly quiet day, just about managing to get a bit of food from the shops, the randomness continued today as Bug, si and I were stood in si's room and somehow we managed to get onto the topic of nuclear war, and things like civil defence and stuff, just as we were talking about if we would want to survive or not, there was a shaking and a clatter noise as bug fell onto a table, the house was shaking! Cor, I just experienced my first earthquake, yes, an earthquake, in good old britain too! After a couple of seconds, I realised what was happening, and simply said "earthquake", after it had finished, we just stood there and looked at each other, quite, quite bizarre. We then went outside to see what was going on, (and to get out of what we thought was a nice secure, stable building) and started having a chat with matt accrross the road about what had just happened. I then came back in the house and went into protect and survive mode, grabbed coat, torch and then logged on to #aber to see if anyone else had experienced it and others had too, all over the country.

I then went back outside, only to find bug chatting to some random guys who seemed a little "under the influence" then to my horror noticed that one of them was carrying a gun! I wasn't quite sure what to do, and this guy was pointing it everywhere so it took me a few seconds to realise that it was in fact a BB gun - phew, but I did notice the guys who were leaning out of the window over the road dissapeared back inside very quickly! I now really can see why the police have to treat every situation as if it does involve real firearms, because in lots of situations, it is very hard to tell exactly what is and what isn't real, especially in less than ideal conditions.

I must say it took a good half hour before it had any mention of the quake on the radio, or indeed BBCi or even BBC news 24, initial reports off radio five said a while ago that it was 4.8 magnitude, and epicentre somewhere near Birmingham, freaky.

There is just an uncomfirmed report now of a bomb going off near US embassy in indonesia, fucking madness unfolding on the world, and I have to remove a pile of clothes from the bed before I can sleep. Who ever said that nothing ever happens in aber eh?