08/12/05

As several of you will know, on Tuesday, I got locked out of my house. As it happened, neither of my flatmates were coming home that evening, so ... I was pretty upset. It just hit home suddenly how alone I am in this city. I'm used to being within walking distance of a friends house, and there wasn't anyone. I only had the phone number of one of my work mates, and they lived the furthest away (not walkable, put it like that). Fortunately, I was meeting up with some people from work that evening, so I wasn't totally stuck. As it happened, I ended up with six people all staggering round my house trying pretty hard to break in. In fact, one of them did get into my housemates bedroom through a top window - but then his bedroom door was locked, so he couldn't actually get downstairs to let us in. We gave up in the end, and I ended up sleeping round one of their houses. I managed to get in the next night (one of my housemates was back home) but an interesting evening...

Otherwise, things have been okay. I've been learning how to do proper engineering drawings, which has been good. Have also bought the Firefly DVDs with Gerard to fill that ugly Joss Whedon shaped hole in my life, and went to Avebury to eat some reeeeally nice food (but walking back to the car park was a bit tricky as some idiot had left all these big rocks in the way). Am currently awaiting the arrival of the Ultimate and Only Amna tomorrow evening - my first proper guest in my new home (the Gerard doesn't count). I'm hoping that I will manage to retain my keys at least until she arrives.