Palfrey's life

23. It's past 9:13pm local time, the point at which I was born now. Ok, it won't be then properly (GMT) for another 15 minutes, but fuck it. It's close enough. Thanks to everyone who said "happy birthday" to me (the wish is nice, even if the reality sucks a lot), and to those who either noticed my assorted pissed off MSN nicks, or that I ranted to last night. This day hasn't exactly gone well. The whole "bad things come in 3's" has happened all today:

1. 2 hours this morn spent supervising a dutch-language CS exam, which has an error in it, with people asking *me* questions about the dutch words, and the only bits I can read are the maths and the acronyms. With no supporting other people. Did I mention the 5 hours of sleep, no caffeine and walking out of the house when it's still dark enough to be night time?


2. Failing the Dutch language module entrance exam. Score needed: 75%. Score got: 54%. Much suckiness. Gotta wait another month-and-a-half or so and then try again. That sucks


3. I got the NGE box set for my birthday, and my fucking DVD-ROM drive won't read them. Fuckwit. Will have to try them out on the laptop at the weekend

*Sigh*. I've got a few ideas about how to snap myself out of this. I'm gonna email some ppl after this and see if I can organise some drinking this w/e, and I'm gonna visit this shop in town on Sat that looks like some sort of small games workshop from the outside (but a bit less corporate), and see If they know where my kind are. Failing that, I'm gonna bring home the laptop, watch NGE eps and fire up a few FPS's and shoot the shit out of things until I'm less stressed. Want the Xbox and Mechassault back.....

I'm sticking with it for the meanwhile, I think mostly because I'm too tied into too many things, and that I'd have to piss off a whole lotta people to get out. Admittedly, if I was gonna exit, then I'd be unlikely to see any of them again, but I'm still gonna play nice for now.

Spoke to parents earlier (bday call) and I ended up explaining to my dad that I'm a bit down right now. Not all the stuff I've said on LJ even, but it still feels odd to tell my parents about a level of my life that I normally keep well away from them. That whole convo got me even further down, I was almost crying by the end. Shit I need a drink. But that's drinks with friends, drinking alone would be a) really fucking pointless and b) be further fucking with my value sets at a point where they're pretty fragile already. Right, time to email ppl and get something like that sorted.