Narcissists

[raven]

Last night is probably best explained in retrospect, starting from about nine thirty this morning when Claire arrived at my door wanting to know what she'd done last night. "Was I horrible?"

"You were pissed."

"Really pissed?"

"Really, really pissed."

This ascertained, she went to sleep on my bed while I tended to the sort of headache that comes from sleeping twelve hours in three days, having a full-blown essay crisis, writing 2500 words in one go, taking far, far too many Pro Plus tablets and finally, drinking. Red wine and vodka doubles, because we went to Narcissists at Baby Love and that is as much as anyone can really remember. I remember the place, which is gorgeous; it's a rustic, dim-lit old bar-type thing upstairs (with pot plants? I remember pot plants) and a dingy, pretty, fairy-lights-everywhere place to dance downstairs. I remember being absolutely convinced I shouldn't go, because as mentioned before, tired, so tired, out of my skull, etc, etc, but fairly skipping down Turl Street at the thought of going out dancing. It was what I called "a mood of perversity and self-destruction."

The guy in front of us at the bar ordered three fairly complex cocktails, so we were stood there for quite a while, but not long enough to realise that they only served doubles. I hate doubles. But I had one anyway, and drank it far too fast, and then we went downstairs, found barstools, and when the music got good, danced. Claire claims that her memory goes blank here. Once curled up on my bed, her voice drifted out lugubriously across the room. "I met Sam downstairs."

"Yes," I said neutrally, looking for my calculator.

"He said there was pole dancing."

"You don't remember the pole dancing?"

"Oh, shit."

To be fair, no-one was really looking at the pole. We all got dragged there by this girl whose name I can't remember but came from Brasenose, and Sam. This is not one of the PPE Sams - he's a historian whom I have fancied the arse off ever since I first saw him, and last week Claire told me happily that he's broken up with his girlfriend - and sadly for me, Brasenose Girl was all over him. This irritated Pat, and I got to think that it's probably a good thing she's on my side. Because no-one can resist Pat when she really gets going, and by virtue of some very impressive Brazilian-hip-swinging, she made it so the moment Brasenose Girl got close to Sam, he got suddenly and terminally distracted. When he departed homewards at about one, she'd just about given up on him. In the meantime, Pat was happily buying beer and basking in the fumes of jealousy. I really, really love her, I've decided.

Claire had meanwhile met another CAAH girl at the bar (whom she texted this morning, to apologise for talking such total bollocks) and by about two-ish, I was feeling more or less dead. I was asleep on my feet, regardless of the music and the smoke and the dancing; I figured it was time to leave. At the time I thought I must be drunk, but in hindsight I probably wasn't, because I behaved entirely rationally, getting home without incident and remembering to drink three glasses of water before bed. I think I was just overtired, stressed and tipsy. Getting out of bed in time for lectures was not fun, especially as Claire took the chance to get into my vacated bed.

After a while, she asked: "Are you still here?"

"It's my goddamn room!"

But she had a point. I went to a stats lecture, which was an abject waste of time - the lecturer didn't seem to know how to switch on a laptop, despite the fact she was supposed to be teaching us how to use Excel - and missed Morison and Pooley for the first time ever, choosing instead to come back to college and turf Claire out of my bed. She has departed to go back to sleep in her own bed, and I think I need to do some actual work. Last night was actually fun; it's two weeks until the next one, so we may have recovered enough to go to it.

Have just remembered something else. The toilets at Baby Love are labelled "Dicks" and "Pussies". Hmmm.

Comments

[julianelupin.livejournal.com]

What a fabulous, fabulous adventure. XD

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*g* It really was. :) Icon love!

[julianelupin.livejournal.com]

Will you be more impressed if I tell you that actually is my silhouette, photoshopped from a picture of me drinking straight out of the rum bottle, or did you assume that already? ;)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I did not know that, and I am impressed. :) You and B should so come to Oxford and help me get pissed. *g*

[julianelupin.livejournal.com]

That would be an amazing meetup, as we'd planned to go to Oxford anyway sometime. :D

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Gleee! Please do so during termtime. *g*

[julianelupin.livejournal.com]

Okay! When I perfect the driving, and we figure out when we're going where, we'll talk to you about this. :D YAY!

[ladyfalcon.livejournal.com]

Pot plants? Are those plants-in-a-pot or plants of the pot variety? Because I know which one my mind originally goes to...

I'm not sure if this icon applies, but I've been hanging on to it literally for months without anything to use it on.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Plants in a pot, sadly, but I may have only imagined them. *g*

Mmm, let's see: no sleep, enthusiastic Brazilians, a lot of vodka, a pole, and a ten am lecture. Icon definitely, definitely applies.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Ah. Alcohol. I'm almost sad we don't have any clubs in St Andrews...

This post made me laugh, I have to say. *pets carefully*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*g* All the clubs in Oxford are in walking distance. it's a wonder this doesn't happen more often. :)

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Dundee is, apparently, walking distance. I have been told this by a third-year who didn't have the money for a taxi, missed the bus and proceeded to walk home.

He says that after the second hour you sort of forget you're walking, really.

*grins*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, my. How fair is it, and how long did it take him?

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Took him four hours, in the end.

Apparently it was the Tay Bridge that was the worst bit. *facepalm*

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

ICON!

/gratuitous Bernard-love

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Everyone in the whole wide world should have more Black Books (and Bernard in particular) love in their souls.

[amchau.livejournal.com]

Unrelated to your post: last night, having talked to you, I dreamt I had to do a sheet of some kind of maths. Is it possible that it was meant to be your dream? I haven't done such things for literally years, and since we occassionally do brain-share... I thought I'd mention it, you know. Not that sleeping is exactly a thing it's easy to do for someone else, but if every someone needed such a thing, it seems to be you.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Quite possible! I didn't dream at all last night, possibly a consequence of being almost at coma-level for most of it. I should have taken your advice and gone to bed earlier, omg...

[amchau.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to know that it was yours really. I was a bit confused by it. :) And yes, you should always take my advice, which quite frequently features sleeping more. Mmm, sleep...

[bekkypk.livejournal.com]

The toilets at Baby Love are labelled "Dicks" and "Pussies".

Thats the sort of thing I'd giggle about each month for the rest of my life with my brother. Come to think of it, I may :D

Why Yes I Am Immature :D
xx

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Me, too. *g*

[bekkypk.livejournal.com]

It's great being able to giggle as things :D
xx

[hips-lips-tits.livejournal.com]

i am going to open a bar and that's going to be the name of the actual establishment. 'dicks and pussies.' or i'll find some other equally amusing but perhaps not quite as vulgar euphemisms for the male and female genitalia.

at any rate, turn 21, come to america, and drink with me! or uhm.. well i suppose i could go over there too but [sarcasm] i'm having far too much fun at community college. (a/k/a the 13th grade.)

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[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I would frequent such an establishment with perverse joy. "Where are you going?" "Dicks and Pussies, darling, don't wait up."

*g* I'll be in America this summer, I think. Sadly I will still be nineteen! You will have to explain the 13th grade reference, as it is lost on me; are there not thirteen grades? 'Scuse my total ignorance.

[hips-lips-tits.livejournal.com]

i wasn't quite sure if that would translate correctly or not. ok. school, in america, goes by grades. kindergarten is usually the first year, which you attend when you are 5 years of age. after that, it is grades 1-12. after satisfactory completion of the 12th grade, you graduate high school. it is then that you proceed on to university or 'community college' which is just a smaller university. you can only earn a two-year degree there which is called an associate of arts or associate of science degree, depending upon which route you took.

i call it the 13th grade because in a town as small as the one that i live in, going to community college may as well be going to another year of high school. it is not challenging, the work load is the same, and it's all the same people that i knew in high school.

[pumilio2.livejournal.com]

It's my turn to be amused whilst reading "friends of friends" lists.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

My life is ridiculous, I know. *g*

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

After a while, she asked: "Are you still here?"

"It's my goddamn room!"
*giggles* I have had this exchange FAR too many times. And been on both sides of it...

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, me too. It's what I'm going to miss when I don't live in college any more.