Well, I've just awoken rediculously early after my final night in aber. According to my contract I have to be out of halls by 10am... Almost everything is packed now, just a few bits in the kitchen remain to be sorted out, so all I have to do is tidy them up and then clean out my room.
Dad came on wednesday to pick up a car load of stuff, it seems that he has himself a nice new car as the last one finally gave up after doing 300,000 miles or something. I have to ask myself if the new one knows what it has coming for itself.
On thursday I met up with a few friends from the house last year for lunch, it was great to see them again, however our food didn't turn up and Jaz had to go for an interview at 2.30. All credit to varsity, they gave us a refund, however, it was cut very fine, and we ended up getting her to the door of the place where her interview was with three minutes to go - close!
To be honest, the last week or so has been a near-constant stream of goodbyes, I don't like goodbyes (I've been thinking of them as the start of everything else), but needless to say I've met many really great people over my last few years hear at Aber, and its certainly a shame that they won't be just 10 minutes walk away ever again. I might formulate a goodbye blog at some point, but stalkers would have a field day with that one.
I've had a good few nights out over the last week, being me, all with several different groups of people, but I've managed to get a pint in with most people. The union on friday was indeed very strange, there were a lot of tears shed, lots of hugging, and lots of borderline music followed by the downright depressing goodbye sort of tunes. So perhaps all in all a good "last" night out, again, I saw and said goodbye to many many people.
However, last night aber threw a complete surprise at me. I went for a drink with Nermal and Lowey and we ended up going to Bar Essential initially just for a few quiet ones. However, the pub was packed, and strangely with only one other student-looking person in sight, while we were having our pint, there were a few good songs being played and it was really good sort of club-like mixes of some older stuff mixed with new, but after our pint we did actually walk out the door. However, they started playing a remix of Eminem - without me (Drunken Munkey - E) and it was quite loud, so we stood just outside the doorway while we decided where to go next and pondered. It turns out that all three of us actually liked this song, so it prompted us to stay, and we went back in and had another drink, where we were eventually treated to a dance remix of the old favourite "popcorn". This arrangement sounded like a single album, so I decided to ask what it was... The guy (i think the landlord) said it was Clubland 4 but it was on the third "bonus" CD. In a few hours when woolworths opens I'm going to go and try and buy it for the journey home :).
That's the first time that the music alone has got me to walk back into a pub I was leaving, and certainly the first time it's happened in aber - there's just not enough dance played in this town unfortunately, even in the pier, which is just a cheesefest these days. All this and it's my last day in Aber. Typical.
Tasks for this week when I get home:
- Continue with new website
- Reduce amount of clutter - parents are moving house so need to be minimal
- Sort out hard disc - I've got an "unsorted" folder that's been unsorted for three years now
That's far too much for this time of morning - I'm off for a bit of kip!
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