9/26/2005 11:54:00 AM|||James O'Malley|||

Something interesting has happend - by which I mean, it would be interesting if it didn't happen to me and I didn't have to endure it in real time, but it turns out that I hate student culture!

What do I mean by this? I'm talking about the "going out in the evening, drinking heavily, being rowdy, and essentially doing the opposite of what I like doing". I went to the Student's Union last night, for what turned out to be like a big disco. Earlier in the day, we were given vouchers for a free drink to the value of two pounds... when we arrived at the Union, the same Union we'd been inside for free earlier, we had to pay two pounds to get in!

Needless to say, it wasn't my cup of tea... hundreds of people I don't know, drinking alcohol, with loud pop music and a "DJ" encouraging "party games". Needless to say, I'd swam into the deep end, and there wasn't a novelty island-themed inflatable for me to grab on to. It was a lot like work, in that everyone else wern't below me they're just different, to me. Or as my Harborian friend Matt put it, I'm not normal.

In the end I did the most sensible possible thing- walked alone through a big city at night to get back to my halls.

I actually had a half decent evening after that- I sat online, which was speeding along at 5 megabit, because everyone else was down at the Union, I watched Space Race from the other week, and read a few more chapters of John Simpson's The Wars Against Saddam: Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad.

Yeah, look at me! I'm doing all the studenty things!

So, who's for sweepstakes on whether or not I'll still be here tomorrow tonight?

|||112773340667497691|||Out of my depth!