MCM

I did not sleep well the night before MCM. I woke up at about 3am, I'd been rubbing my eyes in my sleep as they were very itchy and sore. I got up, went to the loo, went back into my room and turned on my light. I looked in the mirror to see my eyes were bloodshot which made me very worried as I wondered whether I would be able to wear contact lenses later that day. Looking in the mirror and the bright light suddenly made me feel hot, sick and dizzy so I rushed to turn off the light and went back to bed. I avoided touching my eyes and hoped I would be better in the morning. When I did get up the next morning my eyes were fine but I still felt sick. I really don't know why, I ate, I drank but still felt a bit dodgy. I prayed for it to pass, I mean, of all days why did I have to feel bad today! I think it was some sort of weird excited-nervousness that made me feel ill but once I'd been up an hour I felt much better. The sore eyes at 3am? Probably caused by the fact George the uni halls cat had been sleeping on my bed and I am very so slightly allergic to cats, the hair must have got in my eyes and irritated them but luckily these things wear off.

I soon recieved a text from Matt starting: "Jill. Captain Wesker here..." which made me laugh and realise we would be calling each other by our character names for most of the day! The boys arrived in under an hour, Alex got changed at mine whilst I chatted to my flatmate Ellie in the hallway and then we all set off to Argos to get Alex some kneepads and a back-pack from a camping shop. Once Chris was finally equipt we set off to the station...

On one of the trains on the way to excel we bumped into Martyn which was lucky! We must have been on the same train as him without realising it. Alex spotted him and we got the train together to MCM which was lucky because Martyn didn't know the trains to excel were actually running now! When we got there it was 10 minutes before 12 which was good timing on our part! We stopped on the bridge and waited for Martyn to change into his Red Dead cowboy outfit (he was wearing two pairs of jeans don't worry!). Once he was changed we met up with the others who had started walking towards where we were. I said hi to everyone with a hug though I didn't quite expect Craig to pick me up! Iain, Holly and Rich were running late so we didn't meet up with them until a couple of hours later at the resident evil photoshoot.

The Resi photoshoot was great fun. We met a couple dressed as Chris and Jill who snapped with me and Alex as we were in the same costumes as each other! They were lovely people as were all the many people in Resi costumes! It was so cool to meet people who were as big as fans as us! Once it had got too cold and wet the photoshoot moved indoors. We did not follow though as Agent 47, Richie and Holly had arrived! As soon as I saw Iain I yelled "Agent 47!" and ran up to hug him. I was closely followed by Alex and Matt which crushed me into Bossman! Hope he didn't get too squished by us! We said hello to Holly and Richie too before finally making our way inside the expo. There wasn't much in there this year but there were some awesome wrestlers, some robots, the A team and Mystery machine vans along with a few exclusive playable demos.

Being in costume made the day. It's a strangly good feeling to have people coming up to you and asking to have their photo taken with you as well as a few "Hey! It's Jill Valentine!". A very sweet little girl who didn't talk at all wanted a picture of me, Matt and Alex so we happily posed for her and she thanked us all with a hug and ran off! She didn't say a word! It was so sweet.

Later on after a little aggrovation and a lot of walking we ended up outside a bar at MCM. It was very cold and I ended up being kept warm by Alex and Martyn, twas very kind of them! Once we'd rested our feet and were fed up with the cold we went inside until me, Alex, Matt and Martyn had to head home. It was a shame because from what I heard the others had a great time getting merry together! Wish I could have stayed but I had to get home as I was going back to Portsmouth the next day. The day was so much fun though and it was great to meet Rich, Rhys and Michael off the OPM group as well as see the lovely minions again. <3

Long time no write

Well, well, well. Hello old friends (if anyone still reads this), I haven't blogged in a long time which is really bad because I should be writing every day according to my creative writing teacher. But then again, I'm a writer, I don't have rules so fuck that. Anyway, the point I was getting to is now I have no excuse not to write so here I am.

Uni has officially come to an end for me, I've handed in all my work and not had lectures for weeks now. In fact the only reason I ended up in Kingston staying here for longer was the convenience of going from here to MCM in London this Saturday. Plus instead of travelling alone I am going with Alex and Matt again which is always a laugh. It's going to be even cooler this time (or possibly hotter in this weather) because we'll be a resi trio! I'm going as Resi 3 Jill Valentine, Alex is going as Resi 5 Chris and Matt is now going as S.T.A.R.S Wesker! I actually can't wait because it's going to be such a laugh, I've missed the minions and I'll be meeting some new people off to OPM group! Good times all round! I just hope it doesn't rain as I am planning to straighten my hair...

Last night was an odd night indeed. Matt really wanted to see Joe as did me and Rach so we decided to meet up with him after work. We met up at the fighting cocks but we had to leave because I'd forgotten my ID and you have to have ID there to even sit down there. So we went to weatherspoons instead and I stuck to a coke whilst everyone else drank stupid amounts of alcohol because Matt and Joe kept buying rounds. I wasn't bothered about drinking so it didn't phase me but when we got to leaving, which was some time past 12 when it closed, Rach was very drunk and Matt felt ill. We went next door and got some food to eat but soon enough a fight broke out between Rach and Joe. I could see it coming a mile off. Rach is already quick to anger without the aid of alcohol and to be fair, I would have snapped at Joe if I was Rachel.

Although he's just kidding and probably doesn't realise he's doing it, he's a little bit too insulting to Rach. He says he acts around me and Matt the same way, at which point I said "fuck off, I'm not getting involved" because I wasn't in the mood for people to get arsey with me, it was too hot and there was no way I was going to take sides. But personally, he's much nicer to me and Matt than Rach and that's probably because he feels closer to Rach so he can get away with it but Rach doesn't like it and I can understand why. Even I have snapped at Lewis and Matt over the most stupid things but sometimes people don't realise they're pissing you off until it's too late. So anyway, they started fighting and Joe attempted to calm her down, he signaled to me and Matt they wanted a private talk so we walked on until we got to the traffic lights. We stood there waiting until they caught up. We spent the time talking, Matt was getting emotional again, he really shouldn't drink as that's what it does to him, so I spent my time trying to talk to him and make him feel better, we had a good chat when we walked home and he appreciated it which was nice. I was surprisingly in a good mood but got really freaked out while we were stood there waiting for Rach and Joe.

A car stopped at the traffic lights, it was packed full of men and the driver and the guy in the back seat wouldn't stop staring at me. As in, their glance, at not point, broke away from me. It frightened me a lot and I just wanted to get home. So Matt and I walked back over to Joe and Rach and said we were heading home but they should come back to B block after, mainly because Rach had left her phone at mine. So we walked home and left them to it because they really did have a really long chat which is good, hope things got sorted out between them. When we got home Matt spent his time throwing up whilst I cleared up my room and we waited for Joe and Rach. Eventually Rach came over to pick up her phone and some left-over booze and went home (whilst drinking another alcopop). Sigh. Then Matt finally went home to bed. He feels awful today because he's at work and still feels unwell. I doubt Rachel has crawled out of bed either. It's they're own fault, as much as I like a drink I currently hate this obsession with drinking and getting drunk. It's not very fun being sober and trying to manage drunken behaviour.

I'm very apprehensive about going to this gay pub this wednesday night because it's not really my thing, it's London so it will be expensive but I feel like I kind of have to go now. It probably won't be as bad as I'm expecting and I'm sure it will be a laugh, I just wish Lewis or Ellie could come too.