h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

8:OOam - Alarm goes off, decide to sleep some more

9:00am - Anthony phones. Isnt going freshers fair due to 'illness' although is still going work. Agrees to take me in at 11 because I dont see the point in spending two hours setting up a pile of flyers...

11:30am - Arrive at Freshers fair. Decide were actually in a good spot so are quite happy. Chairman passes by and receives various hints that he'll lose his job at christmas due to incompetance...

12:00 - doors open. Students flood in. No one comes to us.

12:30 - get our first member. Anthony leaves to find matt.

1:15pm - Justin arrives. Says anthony gone. People attempt to join although with no float we find it impossible to let them join...

2:30pm - Rejoice! Matt and Max show up simultaneuously, and thus begins a leaflet bombardment and hard sell from me and Max who've become quite adept.

5:00pm - We all go home. 28 new members, plus double that in the 'I'm interested so email me' pile. Surpisingly large amount of ladies (last year we were an all male society...and the course is largely male).

5:05pm - Get text off sis. Other sis is moving in to dads so she wants info.

5:15pm - Dad finally answers phone. Truth discovered. Massive barny.

6:00pm - After some texts, eventually ring my sis. Has a bit of a cry, feel helpless but promice to support when needed and back off when not. Promice to ring tomorrow for a bit.

7:00pm - Arrive at Roper hall for agreed get together. No one turns up. Not even justin who was meant to.

8:00pm - Go to Max's. Watch much Adult swim and am happy again.

9:30pm - Arrive at Squire's, having decided that the new members will have initiative and arrive there if not going to Roper hall.
Squires shut. Mark heads home

9:50pm - Arrive at library. Pay fees and take out the first tape of I Claudius

10:00pm - Continue heading home.
On route sees couple in car. Lets just say I only looked once...

10:15pm - Arrive home. House stinks. Bins still out. Realise next door has become new student house. Realise that the other next door has a loud stereo.

My head is pounding.

Its not even the sister stuff either, or the stuff with my dad. Its the fact that I now have to organise 60 people into 6 production teams and find enough producers to make it work, knowing full wel that no one - NO ONE - wants to be a producer.

Tonight, I sleep with the teddy monkey. Why? Well I'm miserable.
No, stop there. Not down that road tonight.

I'm going to have a cup of tea, and watch something funnyAddams family or lee evans, then go to bed.


Today has been hell.

I hope you feel better, friend

i'll be a producer, i'm good at it

And I found out my sister had the same thing I had at the start of the year, and it might be manic depression (shes got the same symptoms as on the NHS website and it mentions it can run in families so it would make sense).

Tempted to go back to manchester tonight to check but need to save cash.