Birthday madness and an abrupt end.

I've just had one fo the best and worst Birthday weekends to date.

I took the Friday off work to be lazy and get in to Sheffield in good time. Unfortunately my lift ended up arriving very late but still arrived in Sheffield in good time to meet Ellie who I've not seen for nearly a year now. I'm a bit apprehensive of this as it's been so long and we've both been through a lot since we last saw each other properly. It's good to see though that she is looking well and got over the problems she had. After getting a bit lost I arrive at my friends house to start the drinking. Again, I've not seen much of him recently and was really worried about his state of mind as he was going off on one last time I was round.
We all set off down Zogg and met more people there. The music was right and for a change the usual September crowd of chav's had been replaced by some really nice people (the club clientelle had been going downhill for a while). The seating in the smoking area was very welcome. I spent a ong time catching up with people I've not seen for a while, drinking and dancing... Then had a little acident. My alphabet got scrambled so somewhow I got M and K mixed up ;) Had to sit down for a while but was soon back up bouncing on the dance floor.

We left the club messily, not knowing quite where anybody was and having difficulties getting everybody to exist in the same place at the same time. Got back to my mates house for partying and late night shinanigans but for some reason spent a lot of time fiddling with my synth (had made promises to get it finished for this weekend). I learnt how to play backgammon properly and kicked some ass before watching some films and "partying". The day went on. Ellie wasn't feeling too good so I walked her to the coach station and arrived back. As the evening got nearer the Southerners in the room crashed out good and proper. Everybody else had left so this left me and my friend Kit to go to Corp on our own.

On arriving at Corp Kit informed the doorman that he had some T-rexamine and was going to use it... they saw what he meant when they found us stomping round the dancfloor like t-rex's. managed to get hold of the DJ and persuade him to play all my tracks .. Neurotik Fisch - Thy're coming to take me away, Wayne G - Twisted and finishing off with the Cilit bang hardcore mix :D
Spent a while socialising in the smokers area and met some intersting people. Was beeing pressured to speak to this nice red-headed lass which didn't bother me much, she was quite good looking but I wasn't particularly bothered. Her mate was a nutter from Rovram and if chatting to the sexy red-head meant chatting to the ape like creature she was hanging around with then I'd rather pass. She wanted to go dance in the metal room anywhere but I was there for the Electro-industrial that was going on upstairs. Anyway, had one of the best nights in Corp yet. Clubbing always seems better when there's just two of you, you never end up on your own that way (The pains of being a smoker).

Arrived back at the flat on Sunday to a houseful of sleepy people. Kit went more or less straight to bed so I sat up watching TV whilst having breaKfast and balloons. Got startled early by the Southerners waking up and suddenly realising they needed to be in Essex that day. Finally got a few hours sleep before waking up to eat and get stuff srted for leaving. Was just sitting down for a drink at about 5 when I got a phonecall. My mate usually only rings me if he needs to "party" but says it wasn't about it. It took him a while to say what the problem was... " Edd, there's news, bad news. xxxx has taken his own life". He sounded very robotic, my mate treats everything in life like a battle and doesn't generally show emotion. I mumbled away for a bit and then lost it for an hour so went in the kitchen to sort myself out. I suddenly realised that I was in Sheffield, miles from home and had to get back on public transport on my own and the most i've been upset since my ex lost her child (another bad experience with lots of unanswered questions). My friends couldn't say a thing to me while I was sorting my stuff out which i'm kind of thankfull for as it meant that I didn't have to explain the full details of what had happened. So i decided to ignore it all and just get myself home. I lost it on the coach a few times which was Ok as I was hidden at the back. Arrived home for about 9PM and went straight to bed.