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Date: 05 May 2008 22:56:50
I've had a few days off work.
On Thursday, I voted, and then in the evening I went bowling and had a curry with some of the lads from the youth group. Aside from that, I pretty much did nothing.
On Friday, I pretty much did nothing.
On Saturday, I pretty much did nothing.
On Sunday, I went to church in the morning and went to church in the evening, and inbetween pretty much did nothing.
Feeling that I'd kind of wasted my days off and my weekend, I decided I should do something today, even if it was something fairly minor like, say, going to the cinema. So I asked around some folks at church yesterday and had a little gang of people who said they might be interested. I arranged everything around what times most people were free and what film most people wanted to see.
It wasn't until I was on the train, on my way to the cinema, that I realised nobody else was coming apart from me.
Now I don't have a problem with going to see a film on my own, I've done it several times before and actually quite enjoy it. But by the time I got there this afternoon, I just wasn't in the mood. Of the six people who might have been coming, one was busy writing an essay for their course, one was just back from a trip to London and too tired, one was seeing their friend off who'd been visiting over the weekend, one had been working today and needed to get some things done at home, one had decided not to come because they didn't want to see the chosen film, and one had decided they would rather watch the snooker.
How rubbish.
So I spent some time umming and aahing about whether to go see the movie by myself or not, and eventually decided not to. So I wandered into town and quickly realised that, being a bank holiday, a lot of places were closed and the ones that were open were soon to close early. A bit bored, I figured I might as well come home; not fancying the walk from the train station, I got on a bus.
Then my friend K texted me to ask if there were any plans for after the movie, as she was free now. So I told her no one else had showed up and I was on my way home, and we hatched a plan to hang out and have a cup of tea. That then expanded into tea and Chinese takeaway and many laughs. It was nice because a little irrational part of my brain had been nagging at me earlier over the fact that no one had wanted to hang out with me (I know, most of the reasons given were perfectly adequate, though if I'm honest I'm a little pissed off at the snooker one), so it was really great to finish the weekend on a high note.
The other good thing about it was that it took my mind off tomorrow morning. In the three days I was at work last week, I worked my butt off to try to ensure everything that needed sorting out had been sorted out, and nothing had been missed. However, the last couple of times I've had a few days off, I've come back on my first morning to find my manager listing things that I've overlooked / not done / messed up etc, and I'm really hoping that this time I might actually have remembered everything and can go in and just pick up where I left off last week.
Also, before work tomorrow morning the holiday beard has to be removed. These days I tend to shave about two or three times a week, but since last Tuesday I haven't really seen much point. Now I'm very itchy and keen to have a smooth face again. It may not sound like a big thing, but in my head it easily becomes one.
But let's end on a positive - according to the five-day weather forecast, the rest of the week is going to be sunny and over 20 degrees. Enjoy it while you can - a week is about as much as we usually get for "British Summer Time".