Got up at about 11:45, and contemplated what to do for the day. I headed up to the kitchen, and made some tea, some waffles. Had an issue with the toaster, as one of the waffles got stuck at the bottom. Several attempts to both pinch it out and fork it were unsuccessful. It wasn't until the piece was ripped out bit by bit did I get space for the stuck section. Even then though, once I got it off it fell the grill so I spent another few minutes rattling the toaster upside down to get the crumbs out.
Ate up, and later went into Waitrose to pick up drinks and snacks. Back in the kitchen I noticed there wasn't the Coka Cola. I could of sworn I had plenty left from last night...what happened? Didn't seem to see the rubbish in the bins, maybe someone took it to their room?
At 6:30 or so, it came the time put on the uniform.
Oh! Edgy thermal camera!
Sophie, PJ and Jamie were up in the kitchen. I turned off the light in the communal hall, and listened in on Sophie's panicked remarks. After a while, I tried peeping my head up to peek through the door window and they were already watching out at it. I was shouted a hello by PJ, and eventually opened the door. Sophie was laughing away at my full-fledge ninjutsu uniform. Took off the mask, and had a look at the pumpkins Sophie had made. They looked pretty good! Even Jamie had made one, on one that looked like some sort of cross-breed between a pumpkin and water-melon.
The gang were planning to head off to PJ's to watch a film, and Sophie mentioned she'd be popping back up to No. 92 after saying her good-byes to a friend. Waited a while in my room for her to return but by about 8:00 or so I gave up and put on supper. (It'd take about 55 minutes to cook) Whilst waiting for the oven to pre-heat, I sat on a chair in the corner of the kitchen, just right to the door. Georgia came up, and she didn't see me - just as I had wanted. Yannis was up there too, seconds later. After a minute or so, Georgia noticed me and jumped. No scream so to speak, but it was obvious that I had sent a chill down to her spine. Wish I had my mask on, or even wore a Scream costume...
Yannis dug the costume, and I chatted with the two of them whilst waiting. Due to the absence of coke, or any drink to speak of, I ventured out to the vending machines as a ninja albeit without the mask (Sunday and all). No one else in the campus had dressed up, so I didn't want to put myself at risk of a Halloween egging. Unfortunately, the vending machines weren't taking my damn monies - none of it. I was reluctant to give up and let bad luck take its entire toll, so I stubbornly marched on over to the one last place I'd know that'd be selling drinks at this hour (aside from the pubs) - the burger & chips mobile, just outside Waitrose! They didn't do bottles so I went and bought two cans of Pepsi.
20 or so minutes before the potatoes and chicken, ham and leek pie was ready, I was alone again and decided to play a computer game on the laptop to the pass the time. I spent a fair amount of time alone today, when I think about it. The dinner was surprisingly nice though, I was reluctant to eat either of the two ready meals because, well, I guess I was fearful about the end result.
Cleaned up my utensils and what not, and made my way over to PJs. My ninja pants were repeatedly on the verge of falling down, because the string fasteners would repeatedly come undone. Had an obvious solution and wrapped the string around to the front where I could actually see it. As a pretend ninja, it'd be more than dishonourable to go and have my ninja pants drop out of no where. I had this issue last time wearing the uniform a couple of years ago, and would walk around holding them up, somewhat.
Anywho, Becky advised me to find her (and PJs) flat by the wire-steel man sculptor just outside. I tried the south-east side of the main halls, and came across Flat L. Was mainly convinced it wouldn't be the right place but wanted to ask for directions anyway. Ninja asking for directions is dishonourable, though.
Becky came and answered! So I had found the right place to begin with, which was great. Headed into PJs room. It's nicely sized, roughly the same as mine. Everyone was watching Panic Room on his iMac. James and Louie were there also! The film looked interesting, and I had seen bits of it before - but unfortunately because it came from the University's library, the disc typically had been damaged a fair amount. The film was pausing and skipping an almost unwatchable amount at times, so we had to give in and find another film. Everyone took this time to have a break, however.
James, Sophie, Jamie and I headed back over to No. 92 for some food. (I didn't grab a bite to eat, though) James went and got a couple of DVDs from his place - The Shining, Dawn of the Dead, Donnie Darko and something else. It's Halloween, so obviously we should watch something horror orientated. I kept throwing around the idea of showing everyone GhostWatch (on the way back to 92 as well) but felt...it wasn't the right time. Back at Flat L, the corridors stank. PJ was in the kitchen making some good ol' student food, Super Noodles! James showed the variety of films to watch - leaning towards Dawn of the Dead since it was a classic. The Shining was the winning pick, which I didn't mind. It's an equally as strong (imo) a classic to horror genre as Dawn of the Dead. Plus Jack Nicholson.
We had all seen it before, sans Sophie. She hid behind her blanket/scarf at times, which was cute. PJ was resting his legs on his desk and eating his Super Noodles. To Jamie and Sophie, all their mind could really focus on was the beautiful silhouette of a man eating away his noodly concoction. Incidentally, Jamie pointed out two rather apparent mistakes in the film. I had to enquire how he was able to notice those, and was told that doing film production sort of has that Chekhov effect. The movie still spooked me at various occasions, even if I was trying to type up this blog at the time of watching it. (I hauled it over, it was 11:00pm when I got there.) I completely forgot about a furry-costume man in the bedroom with some other guy. CRIPES, that gave me a creepy chill.
The film finished, and we headed back. On the way up, I remembered that the kitchen had to be cleaned for tomorrow. In a cuss, Sophie had forgotten yet headed upstairs to give me a hand. She was spooked too much, so keeping herself busy would subside the fear. We chatted away during the chore, and discovered Sophie hadn't ever been in a relationship. Well, having to put up with social group splittings, as well as counselling a friend endlessly due to relationships gone awry put her off a far amount on finding one. Having had those same scenarios before, I could empathize with her. Sophie cleaned up a fair amount, so I finished off the smaller details.
At about 2:00am I finally finished, and cleaned myself up. I wanted to write up the rest of this entry but aside from the time, I was also just too tired. Went upstairs to put on waffles and tea, and passed by Kit, his friend (Sev, I think his name is?), Sophie and Yannis. Kit and his friend popped upstairs shortly thereafter. Sev gave me an adequate handshake and introduction. Kit looked like was preparing some bread with butter. I feared he'd leave the stuff out on the draining boards whilst I was gone, but I think he took it downstairs.
At 2:55am or so, I finally nestled up for some shut-eye. Phew.
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