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Having to get up for work when everyone else is free to sleep in fucking sucks. That said, I did manage to haul my ass out of bed and make it into work on time. Spent the morning in a two and a half hour team meeting because a lot of stuff got held over from the meeting that was supposed to be held last Monday. It wasn't so bad as the meeting I went to on my third day, because I'm a little more at ease with being there and I was able to make a few comments about some of the stuff being discussed rather than sitting back in a haze of jargon.
Went to Tesco on my lunch hour to pick up bagels and cream cheese because Tesco closes early on Sundays and so I always forget to get there before it shuts. Didn't really cut into my time too much because I managed to get home, make my lunch and then eat it while observing Mum and Dad's efforts to spruce up the front garden. Dad's weeded the lawn and pulled out some of the more overgrown shrubs and now there's a flowering cherry tree and some flowers planted in a brick-lined flowerbed rather than just a patch of soil amid a lank patch of grass.
Filled my afternoon with some spreadsheet work and internet research, as well as some doodling in my notepad, then headed home at 4:30 on the dot. Stopped by Tesco again to pick up Relentless in the hope that it might lure my muse back to me, but it's still in the fridge downstairs since I didn't get round to it. Evening was just more of the same stuff I've been doing recently, browsing the internet and reading Inception fic.
Thirty-day Challenge, Day 4: Write about your closest friend(s).
Yasmin has been my BFF since I was 12. What else can I say? We have such a history together that she feels like a part of me, like a limb. If I didn't have Yasmin just a text message away I'd be much poorer for it. From my entry yesterday you can see that she tries my patience sometimes, but I know that she'll never hurt me intentionally and apologize for it with such sincere warmth if she ever does learn that she's upset me that any anger I might feel is only ever a passing blip.
I don't know when exactly Hanna became my friend. In Year 9 Yasmin pestered me into asking her out and I complied, if only to shut her up, and in later years would learn that Hanna had only been attempting to hide her bisexuality by dating every guy she could. When I came out she was my guardian, there to defend me from anyone and everyone and help me through all the trivial shit that she was dealing with herself. She became my go-to person when I had a problem and I've put her through so many "Oh my god, I hate my life" rants that she's met with honest, mostly-helpful advice. Hanna is the big sister I never had, when I think about the 13-year-old me who just saw her as a token Goth chick I kind of want to go back in time and slap myself. She's ten shades of awesome.
Alex is Hanna's boyfriend, they've been together for coming-up-to three years if you don't count a slightly rocky patch. At first he was always just "Hanna's boyfriend", but then I was hanging out at their place so much that I got to know him. I remember Hanna telling me that Alex liked me most out of all her friends because he could actually hold an intelligent conversation with me; that and the fact that we managed to hold a conversation without it being awkward after Hanna had jokingly suggested that I could give him a blowjob in her place while she was doing chores, made me realize that he's kinda my friend too. Alex is really smart, especially with technical stuff and computers, but he doesn't talk down to me when we get into conversation and I actually feel really cool when I can kinda keep up with it. He's also a total dork: comics, movies, games, tabletop gaming, he's all over it and so it gives us a point of common interest that covers a lot of ground.
Ashley and I became friends towards the end of year 9. Again, we bonded over nerdy things like games, books, manga, anime, tv, movies, etc. and he was my first proper "guy friend". We'd have sleepovers and spend an entire weekend playing games, watching internet clips, talking about fic. Towards the end of GCSE he had a nasty break-up with Ashley B, a short while later I got a phone call from him and he told me that he liked me. We dated for eighteen months before I couldn't take our flaky relationship and his inability to talk about it anymore and we broke up. It didn't harm our friendship at all, we just fell back into the same patterns without ever getting into bed together. After Sixth Form we stopped seeing each other nearly as much, but recently we've got back into the habit of meeting up and hanging out at the pub and we've suggested another sleepover weekend to play some of the new games coming out soon. I guess it's a "watch this space". Either way, Ashley is someone I can hang out with and talk about deep, heavy stuff or fluffy, silly anime in the span of a single conversation and it's really nice to have that kind of friendship with someone.
So, that's about it. There's other people I know who I wouldn't really count as friends or who were friends I've lost touch with more recently. Also, for the sake of getting this thing posted on schedule, I'm not gonna go into detail about all the lovely online friends I have here on LJ; just know that I love and appreciate you all my darlings and am thankful for you putting up with my ramblings here on the web :3