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On Sunday morning I had an extremely annoying dream: I seemed to wake up in my own bed on Sunday morning, and went through to my living room. However, on opening the door I discovered that the main door to the corridor was standing open, and dozens of unpleasant undergraduate-types had wandered in randomly and were sitting around my room, chatting and making mayhem. They had covered the carpet and all my possessions in some vile substance rather like cheese and breadcrumbs. I told them it was my room, and asked them politely to leave. They ignored me, so I told them more rudely to get out. When they just laughed at me, I began pushing them bodily out the door, but they just came in the other door and carried on with their conversations, laughing at me. I went to my phone and called the porters, asking them to come round and evict some unwelcome guests. I waited rather impatiently, but when the porters eventually arrived, they seemed thoroughly drunk and uninterested in removing the students from my room; on the contrary, they sat down with them and joined in mocking me. To make it worse, at this point a press photographer wandered in as well, and began taking pictures of my room, me, and the other people. He then started going through my desk drawers, pulling out private documents and reading them. I tried to snatch them out of his hands, but he evaded me. Filled with sudden rage, I picked up a cigarette lighter and tried to set fire to his hair. It wouldn't light properly. An old man came over and told me it was his lighter, and in any case I wasn't operating it properly. I snapped the lighter in half in front of his face, but he just tutted and wandered off. I turned to a girl standing nearby, laughing at me, and tried to smash a plate in her face, but she stepped backwards and ignored me. I tried again, but my movements were clogged by some unseen force, and the blow had no speed or force. At this point, I let out a great yell of unbearable frustration at my total powerlessness, which echoed down the dark tunnel I suddenly found myself falling into...and then I woke with a great start in bed, to find I had managed to tangle myself so tightly in my bedclothes that I was virtually unable to move :-) I got up and went through to my living room, where happily I was confronted by nothing more terrible than the minimal amount of wreckage from the previous night's party.
It was a good party, I think, if rather small (though I could have done without G covering my carpet in tobacco and ash, and burning a small hole in it with a fag butt). GC, GB, sj and Emma were there; Barry and Gina were going to come, but somehow never made it to my room from the KSR. (Or perhaps B was overwhelmed by his worry that he wouldn't be allowed into the college on account of being northern!)
Yesterday, after tidying my room, G and I went back to his place, where I persuaded him to make an omelette, and then he played Day of Defeat while I finished off my Armenian list. I feel better-disposed towards St Mesrop's alphabet now - it's not quite as silly as I thought at first, though some of the letters are annoyingly similar to each other in small fonts. I will add this new data to my program now, and see where Armenian fits on the tree.
Later in the evening, G and I watched The Net on tv with M, G's housemate. I saw it when it came out, with IWJ I think; it's a very silly film in many ways, but most entertaining. It has the standard evil English guy, but goes against stereotypes in some ways in that the main female character reaches the end of the film unattached (she has a couple of lovers during the film, but one of them is murdered, while the other one she kills herself (after he tried to kill her).
This morning, when G went to work, I played Dope Wars on his computer for a bit. It's a wonderful game; I feel I shall be playing quite a lot of it :-)
Wandered into town to have lunch with G in Pure; also saw workmate of his who he plays a lot of chess with; then went to do various boring stuff in town (like queueing for coach tickets for Thursday, going to the bank). Saw, variously, E (who I talked to about nethack and dope wars), ptc, random friend of G's, random guy I know at Games and Puzzles. I do like the fact of having lived here almost 10 years; whenever I wander round town, I run into several people I know.
What nice weather it is today. I feel very well-disposed towards the world.
Current Mood: very cheerful
Current Music: Ultraviolence - Life of Destructor