Day 2

My first night at uni was not a great one, sleeping wise. My room was freezing due to the radiator not working and my window being broken so a slight breeze came through. It also means I can hear every drunken idiot outside at night, great. I got to sleep eventually though and didn't wake up too late either.

I got up at a rather early 10am, though the guy next door always seems to get up alot earlier! Crazy guy! Unless he had to for enrolment maybe. I should stop calling him the guy next door, his name is John lol. Anyway, last night I realised I'd forgotten a toothbrush so I decided it was vital to go and buy one! I walked down to the shops, sorted out some savings account stuff, found the Sainsburys, huzzah! And then I went into Boots and brought a toothbrush for a quid. Can't go wrong really! I had to use one of those stupid self checkouts, I really do not like them. It's like, what's the point in replacing humans with machines? And they still have to have staff there in case someone doesn't know how to use them or whatever. Utterly pointless if you ask me. Anyway, some Asian woman was helping me out and then said I had a special receipt meaning I could enter a prize draw of £1000 if I rung up this free number and said she provided good service. Pah! Special customer my arse. She wrote her name on the receipt so I could say what great service she'd given me *cough*. I wasn't going to ring the number, even if it was free phone my mobile still may have charged me, didn't want to risk it.

Walked home, realised how godamn lonely I was again, got home and cried. Pathetic I know but I just miss being around people. When you're around your family every single day it's weird when they're suddenly not there! I know I'll get used to it but I just felt awful. I think speaking to my parents on facebook has made it worse, makes me tearful every time I speak to them but at the same time I can't not speak to them! Argh! Dilemmas.

I spent the rest of the afternoon on the computer, talking to various people, trying to feel better about things. Had a banana for lunch as I wasn't really that hungry and it was healthy at least. Then I decided to play my psp in the kitchen for a bit incase I bumped into John. The plan sort of worked, as I was heading back to my room I bumped into him, said hi, asked how he was, etc. He mentioned last night "I knocked on your door but you didn't come out". I said I had a friend round so I couldn't really come out, I asked if I missed much, he said only 10 of them came out and it was really awkward. So in a way I'm glad I saw Alex instead of go out with them if it was that lame! Alex liked my room, was amazed at how big it was I think! Though directing him here was a bit of a kerfuffle! He also dropped me off a load of geeky DVDs to watch when I'm bored one day/night. Woop! I also lent him the resident evil animation on DVD because I thought it was really good, hopefully he enjoys it.

Anyway I was super excited because John said they might all be going out again tonight so I told him to give me a knock, he said he would and he went off out to see his mate. Spent some more time on the comp before heading out to get enroled. I asked reception which was the quickest way to get to the campus, was told of a new way to go that would take me to the back of it. Found the building I needed to go easily as I'd seen it on open day. I was amazed at how long the queue was, unfortunatly the people standing next to me in the queue weren't very talkable, there was one guy stood infront of me on his phone and behind me were two girls taking in Chinese to each other, fail. Had a brief word with some of the other people I met, had to queue several times for things. The whole process took about 50 minutes but it didn't seem that long. Got my ID card in the end, I look so tired in the picture but oh well!

Walked back to my room, made dinner of beans on toast (I know, I know, was going to have pasta but I had no sauce, failcats.). I need to buy some sauce for my chicken breasts today! Will eat one today and freeze the other one before it goes off. If I can ever be arsed to go out :/. I need to otherwise dinner will consist of nothing much tonight :P.

I waited around talking on msn and such, no knock on my door, was thinking I was never going to go out. Then I heard someone knocking on my corridor door (which is a locked door from the outside), so I opened the door and there were two girls there. "Freshers Angels" who were inviting people out, as I was desperate to go out I of course said yes. They said 20 minutes in the carpark. So I got ready and went outside, there was a group of people in the middle of the carpark. I saw John and asked if this was everyone who was going out, it was and there was a lot of them. A lot more than 10 anyway! Got talking to some of Johns' friends, found out they all knew each other before uni, so that's where he's been going all this time! Made me feel better as he only had friends because he already knew them! Later on when in the student pub just down the road from our halls, I got talking to some much nicer people. A guy called Matthew (possible PS3 gaming buddy!) who hung out with a load of girls, hannah and bianca were the ones I spoke to the most though, they were really nice.

The first pub we were at, drink were dirt cheap, rum and coke for £1.60! Even Matthew brought me a drink, was nice of him, I returned the favour when we moved onto a better student pub though. That one was crawling with students, absoutly packed, amazed me how anyone managed to play pool in there! Drinks were still cheap, yay! Will be going there in future, might go there during the day too if the others invite me. We left quite early because some people had to get up early tomorrow to meet parents and Matthew had had a few too many and he didn't want to be ill again so I walked home with Matt, hannah and bianca. We went back to Matthews halls and sat in the kitchen for a bit just chatting. It was about 00:20 when Bianca said she was heading upstairs to bed, I said I had better go too as I was knackered and my body really was starting to ache. So I said goodbye to everyone, nice to meet you, etc and I walked back to my halls which were next door. Got home, text Alex and was on the phone to him until stupid o'clock. What a day! Feel so much better about everything now :).