I just burned 550 calories at the gym. I’m dead. Even before we got back the others were talking about getting chocolate :hmm: I just wanted to change into something more comfortable and less sweaty, and have lots of water. Swimming is the only thing that makes me hungry, and even that doesn’t seem to have the same effect on me anymore (mainly because I eat an hour or two before I go I think).

Last night was the first formal dinner at our hall. All I have to say about that is that the kitchen staff clearly can cook when they try – the food was absolutely amazing. Even though there were things I don’t really like, such as pumpkin soup, they were edible and even nice, the quality was so good. After that we went on to a bar called The Coco Lounge, which was very chilled. I talked to lots of new people, several of which came from my home city, and then hung out with the girls and a few guys until it closed. It was quite amusing because the bar staff came to tell the room they were closing, and no one at our table heard…then about 15 mins later, someone’s all, ‘Hey, where’s everybody gone?!’ Very funny lol. Lord only knows how about 50 people managed to walk downstairs, into the main room and out of the door without any of us noticing, but we didn’t lol. It was kinda creepy walking down into the main room, which had been fairly crowded all night, completely empty and silent. I got a taxi back with Nika and Richard. It was a black cab, so Richard sat on one of those pull-down seats with his bacvk to the driver. He was kinda drunk I think, and when we went around a sharp corner, he tried to keep his balance..fell off the seat, tried to grab the handle on the wall between the two seats, grabbed on to it, span around suprisingly elegantly for one so drunk, and fell on the floor. It was absolutely hilarious, I nearly pissed myself :) I’m laughing just typing this, but it was probably one of those ‘you had to be there’ situations.

Nika took pictures of the formal and uploaded them to her MSN space thing. You can view them here. I hav no idea why my eyes are red in practically all of them, I’m going to have to Photoshop them I think.

Tomorrow I have nothing planned, I’ll see what happens :) I’m going to try and get some work done I think, I have American Lit. coursework to do for 15th November, and I’ve not even planned it yet. Then Sunday I’m going swimming with Jenni in the morning, my family is coming to visit around lunchtime and we’re going to go shopping/to the castle (hopefully), then Nika and I are going to meet Tom at the train station in the evening. He’s staying until Tuesday, yay! It’s going to be so much fun, I really miss all my old friends :(

On a random note: you can’t beat good old-fashioned attraction. The suspense, the worry…it’s all good in the end ;)