Gareth’s blog

Sunday, December 21, 2003

Nearly Christmas

I've had a great few days. Finished college on Friday with a good morning, starting with a nice suprise. Whilst in my P3 and P4 mocks I've just scraped B's I reached 100 UMS on my M2, 58/60. Rather pleased, although slightly discouraged as I didn't feel I had done well in the exam and my intuition is generally very good. Anyway, certainly not complaining but I've got some work to do on P3 and P4 over the holidays, which is what I was expecting.

Went shopping on Friday afternoon with Simon, sorted out most of Christmas presents now, and picked up my suit too. In the evening Friday club was great, went to Laserquest after a quiz. I think it was Simon's last, which is a bit of a shame as he is rather groovy, he's moving to Scotland. Hopefully his replacement will be just as cool.

At work on Saturday, being the last weekend before Christmas I'd assumed we would be flooded with customers. Evidently this is what the store had assumed; for much of the day there were 5, 6 or 7 on the counter. As we were overstaffed I was lent to other departments so spent time on fruit and veg, then later on pre-packed meat. Not really the most exciting of jobs but at least I had something to do.

In the evening I went to the YFC "Fire and ice" ball with *brilliant* Helen. Simon was working and so came later. Whilst I wasn't too enthusiastic about going, mainly because I was so tired after the day at work and getting up so early. Yet as Helen commented earlier it really was the "night of the year" - absolutely great fun! Lou from CU and quite a few others from college came so was much better than the last axiom. The event had been really well organised, a buffet and a few games and three rooms of music; live bands, a really good cheesy dj and another playing dance stuff.

I took a few photos, and they are online in the "photos" section, although I didn't take many photos. If you have any please e-mail them to me! I'm off to sleep now, going to go into town with Will tomorrow to get a few presents and return my suit. Happy Christmas!!