Yesterday was so much fun. Me and Katie went to Broadstairs with Jen, who had no idea that our plan was to keep her away from Canterbury, her house and her boyfriend Paul as he organised her house 'wild west' stylee so that we could all surprise her with a Wild West Texas style barbecue for her birthday! Poor Jen was getting homesick for Texas, so Paul thought it would be a great idea... and so did everyone else!

So we decided to take Jen to Broadstairs for the day, as it was Dicken's holiday home (fun for Jen and Katie: doing their MA in Dickens studies!) and a really nice place: providing the sun is shining. Yesterday, the sun was not shining - it was windy and raining, but Katie and I were determined to keep Jen entertained until the train back at 18.45. We had lunch in 'The Dickens' Pub, and went to The Dickens museum, went for coffee and cake in Morellis - a suoper cool kitsch ice cream parlour, with groovy cream and pink tables, and ice cream cone shaped wall lamps - and all the time we were there, Katie and I were all excited for the evening ahead - and Jen had no clue... despite us walking round and round Broadstairs long after everyone else had given up and sought warmth!

It was a really lovely day too - good times with friends that i'm really gonna miss when they go home - Katie in about 10 days, Jen in January. The party was fun, and nerve-wracking at times - the surprise had to wait while Jen used the bathroom, with 20 people hiding in costume in the front room, and Jen oblivious to all the planning!

It was also one of the last times that I'm gonna get to party with certain people - Little Matt and Rachel, who will also be leaving Canterbury for bigger and better things in the next few days. I'm really sad that they are going, but so proud to have met them, and to be their friends! Of course no party would be complete without a kerfuffle over one (really quite undesirable) man, but hey - all is fair in love and war, right?

So today i'm really tired (and yes... that includes hungover) but it was a really great day, with a fantastic bunch of mates, who I'm gonna miss hugely...

My tooth is leaking antiseptic today, cos I spent an hour and a half on the bus going to the dentists, just so I could sit in a chair for five minutes while the scary guy made my mouth taste yucky...

And I also don't want to work today because living in halls is a bitch... especially when people decide to have fights outside my bedroom at 2.30 am, and not shut up until 5 am! I suppose it beats the time that the fire alarm was set off three times in four nights... but only by a bit.

Some might say that I am procrastinating about finishing my work... and yes, they would be right... but at least I finished off my letter to National Express, complaining about my coach journey on Monday, when the stupid coach driver refused to drop me off at the University, and made me walk for half an hour.

I still have four days left before i hit my mid twenties... not that it's a sore point or anything... but this site is saying i'm there already!

that's not fair!

Myspace: you owe me four days

damn you

so, i've had my last tae kwondo lesson for a while, left my oh so loved (yeah right) job as a barmaid, and have looked after the kids for the very last time, and it's just  beginning to sink in that it's really hard to move on, to move away from people that i adore - and a lifestyle that i've become settled in, all to become a penniless student again

very strange!

i'm starting to feel quite grown up

can't have that

terrible!

that's my new title, and sincerely, i'm proud to be labelled a dissident.  it's all within the politics of pub work, but still, it shows that i have potential to be a real dissident when i grow up

i'm gonna love my next challege: setting up a trade union for wetherspooons employees!!!!

i can't wait to see the look on my managers face

HAHA

i've finally realised that being nice gets you nowhere  

so i'm gonna be really horrible from now on

and see where that gets me