longest day of the year.

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Kmac and I got home at half six in the evening, having been out since the night before. Longest day of the year, in more ways than one. Sandy and Stroud had put me to bed at about ten and I woke up at two to find everyone else still out in the garden, so I joined them. The plan had been to meet Lou for hangover scran but she'd fallen asleep on the sofa, so I was there all day. Eventually got back on it. Was sat in the window of R's room about four trying to compose a Happy Birthday text to K - was weird. I kept getting caught up in trains of thoughts, as you do, remembering things in the haze, then looking down an age later at the half-written text and starting it afresh. I will miss the place - all the drinking, all the errors, all the nights I popped in on my way home from the library. All the sleeping under a pile of jackets while the party went on around me. The night before Vice City when I showed up with the boy I'd been on a first date with and his eyes went wiiiiiide at what was on the table. Vice City itself - havana club and pineapple, Dan coming up after work and spilling red wine on my white clothes. The night of Biblo's last day of trading, when I called Oj in tears and then all we drank ourselves silly with sorrow and played Uno. Becoming the Sneaky Beast from the east. JLB. The time we all walked back from the south side. The time Stevo hit his head off the radiator. The time Oj punched the ceiling. The time we had Christmas dinner. Still I feel like this is a silly, small list.



I've just driven home from work after my first proper cashup. The nightly sheet says manager on duty: Ele. Tomorrow I am picking my parents up from the airport. I feel older this week.