Igor : Premature Souperhero

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Last night was quiet. Me Timmy and Jonny headed down to the Frog & Parrot on Devonshire Street to watch a mate of mine from work do a gig there. He's a Scouser who does mainly acoustic and sings songs about West Street. A bit of a strange combination but he wasn't too bad. It was a shame though because no-one in the pub was paying any attention to him and the management had obviously intended him to be nothing more than backing music. Even his mates weren't totally paying attention and so after every song there was an awkward 2 second gap before one of them would notice and there would be this "spontaneous" applause and wooping.

Today I've tidied the flat and I am about to walk into town to buy a jumper/something warm because Sheffield is starting to get seriously cold, much more than home!

Tonight money's telling me not to go out (weekend prices aren't student friendly) so I'm going to the gym to get back into that because I had to stop so the hemorrhaging in my eye wouldn't get any worse. Also partly because I'm playing football on Sunday for Sheffield Parties which should be interesting, I've not played a competitive game for a team since I was about 15 or maybe even before though. I'll be a bit rusty but shouldn't be too bad, I'll tell them not to expect too much because I am known for crumbling under pressure in sport!
I finished my essay yesterday. Got everything I wanted to put in and finished on 2199 words. The upper limit is 2200 so I'm happy.

The Good

1. Got my new PIN sent through so I can finally buy food again. Dicko hungry no more! I was getting sick of having to gamble and eat stuff in the fridge which was up to a week out of date! Yuk!
2. Picked up my Arctic Monkeys tickets from the post office depot this morning. Its next Saturday night, Eagles of Death Metal supporting too, should be amazing. I dont really know any Eagles songs but to be honest I can't wait to see a big live show again for the first time since Beni
3. My essays going to plan. More today, day off tomorrow so I'll do some then, and then writing it up this weekend so its ready for Monday. Nice.
4. The Sunshine Underground posted the video for their new single, "Coming To Save You" last night and it looked top. Its been taken down now though? I love that band
5. I'm getting paid £50 tomorrow from Sheffield Parties for all the flyering and commission from the last week and a half.
6. Next week is reading week.

The Bad

1. Last night at about 5AM someone got shot outside the main gates of the forge (yes you read that right!). I got woken up by a text about 10 mins after it had happened from a girl at the other end and she said there was police everywhere. I went outside this morning on my way to uni and sure enough, all sealed off, and about 10 police cars all parked up, then when I came back from Uni it was all gone and back to normal which was a bit odd. I asked around a bit and no-one seemed to know what actually happened, whether the guy was a student or not or if he even survived. And now the front of the forge is back to normal apart from one police car so I'm guessing he must be OK? Strange times.
2. Cippo (ill) and Rick have both gone home so its just me and Angus in the flat. We're both doing this essay so i suppose its better for that but at the same time I am a bit bored!
3. Rick did my head in the other night calling me dry and actually getting mad because I've got more money than him but sometimes I just don't fancy going out. Was being dead confrontational over nothing. Did my head in. I think its because of my card situation and he had to lend me £25, and then maybe that went to his head? Also because I didn't watch United with him (why would I? I hate them, and while he says he watches city with me, united play 2-3 times a week so i'm not going to watch them every time.) Whatever.
4. Plug on Tuesday for Geoff''s birthday wasn't a particuarly good night. Bars were understaffed, the arena wasn't anywhere near being full either. The Dj, Dan Hills was well good mixing in loads of Dubstep and Drum n Bass with top 40 stuff which was class but at the end of the night I was smashed and just left thinking what was the point in that, £25 owed to Rick for what was a proper mediocre night. I think on Tuesdays I'll just stick to Crystal.

On Monday I invested in a new phone, or more specifically a Blackberry Curve 5230. Its a massive improvement on what I had before, I absolutely love it and the wi-fi hasn't even kicked in yet! Great little gadget. Its my first pay monthly deal. 200 minutes, Unlimited Texts, Unlimited Internet and Insurance covering damage, loss and theft all for £30.46 per month so its saving me loads. Very happy with it.

I handed in my Nationalism Essay Plan last Friday morning (the day I got battered in Leeds) and finally got it back last night. A solid 3/5 which I'm quite happy with. It was the first piece of work in any of my modules I've been asessed on and had go towards my end of year grade. I was a bit nervous when I handed it over, I was happy with the effort I put in but it was the first piece so I wasn't sure what standard to produce. The lecturer said 3/5 would be good, 4/5 would be exceptionally good. Everyone else I've spoke to got a 3 (2 people) or 2.5 (4 people) so I'm dead happy with how its gone. I've made a start at doing the essay with a load of books I've taken from the library. Going well

Monday night was Bradley from SClub Vs. Scott from 5ive Pop Battle at Embrace. I was selling, but only managed to shift 4. I sold 29 on the night but that included all of my Wednesday night allocation so I probably should have done better. No-one wanted them though so what can I do.. With all my flyering work on Sundays I'm getting paid £50 on Friday which is much needed. I got a new card but the pin didn't work so while they're sending one out I've had to not spend anything. I am running out of food!
Rick is lending me £25 tonight though because its Geoff's birthday so we're all going Plug..

Peace!

My eye is pretty much back to normal now which is good . Still a little bit of blood on the eye itself but thats normal and I don't need to see a doctor unless its not gone within the next week.
This weekend has been good, which I really needed. Thursday night I was wrecked so I had a 14 hour sleep and felt so much better for it.
Friday day I headed out to Ecclesall Road with Rick, his brother and his brother's girlfriend to get our fancy dress for Halloween. I ended up deciding to go as a Pirate because there was loads of stuff for that but then after buying the hat I ran out of money.
Friday night some girls from home came up so I went for a drink with them at the Hubs, then headed back to Rosies. Things got very messy very quickly and I walked back with the lads from the flat upstairs.
Saturday the final pieces of the Halloween outfit came together. I walked into town with Johnny from upstairs and from Primark I bought a £2 White T-shirt. When we got back i drew an anchor on it then lended some fake blood and white facepaint from my flatmate Timmy Angus so I was now an undead pirate which was cool. Here's the finished thing!

We headed next door where all the Halloween Decorations were for a flat party which was good. See here.
From the flat we headed to SheffOne at the Hubs and had a wicked night, I thought it was really good. All the girls from home were out aswell. I had a top time. I headed back to Leadmill Point with them all then at about 5 walked back to the Forge. A very good time was had, all on £20 (£30 if you include the hat!) which was just what I needed.
Today I woke up a little late and headed out to the office for my 2nd time doing weekly Halls rounds. I wasn't as tired at the end as I was last week, and had an alright time going round all the Uni halls this time. Endcliffe Village is absolutely massive, Ranmoor is nice too but Tapton is absolutely hanging. Some of the Uni students were a bit arsey aswell when they saw what I was doing which I didn't really need, but whatever, another £20 for me. I'm glad I ended up at Hallam. After the work we all headed down to Spoons on West Street for a Sunday Roast which was a nice treat and very filling. Tonight I've tidied a little and watched Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels which was absolutely wicked. Can't believe I've never seen that film before.
Random Things

• City drew 0-0 with Birimingham, I missed it with work but Shay Given was outstanding aparrently. Its a point gained, although we've drawn too many recent games for my liking.
• S-Club (Bradley) Vs. 5ive (Scott) Pop battle at Embrace tomorrow night. I'm selling for it, will be quite good I think. Hopefully will be able to shift a fair few as this has been the first weekend where there hasn't been a carnage or another crawl on the Sunday, and everyone's had enough time to recover from Halloween now.
• I-pod Situation: I very much doubt I'll see my much loved one again after Leeds, but Timmy Angus has stepped up and given me his old Nano for the time being which I'm really appreciating. Really good lad. I saw a cheap shop selling them in town which I'll pay a visit to in January when i get my 2nd bit of student finance and I have my birthday.
• Phone: I spent £80 on credit last month which is a bit of a joke so i'm investing in a Blackberry this week on a pay monthly contract which will be much better for me. I can't wait to BBM everyone! Hopefully will be good for selling tickets and staying in touch with whats going on aswell. Its free then £27.99 a month including insurance so is a good deal.
• I'm picking up something from the post depot tomorrow. It could be a textbook, or Arctic Monkeys tickets The Suspense is killing me!
• I cancelled my bank card after losing it on Monday and the new one should be delivered to the Lloyds in the center of town by tomorrow which will be a great help.

My luck hasn't changed. I set off for uni today and somehow lost my key fob on the way there. On the way back I took out some money and bought some food. Then when I went to the reception to get a new fob I didn't have my card in my wallet. I had to run back and lend £10 off my flatmate because I thought the card was just in my room. Turns out it wasn't, so I am now skint and cardless and with no way to pay back my flatmate. Maybe its a good thing his mates from home came and kidnapped him (literally drove up, bundled him in a car and took him back to Birmingham. He text us saying he'll be back next week, sounds like a lot of fun! )

I got loads of funny looks with the eye going in to Uni so I decided against going my lecture in the afternoon. Didn't feel like getting ogled at by everyone again. Seminars are going to be awkward tomorrow.
I've been feeling ill so have been in bed all day, meaning I sold 0 for Danny Dyer's PA at Embrace tonight. I wasn't expecting to sell many with the final Carnage being last night but 0 is pretty poor. Decided against going because of.. you guessed it, the eye. Instead I rang up and cancelled my card.

Will this get any better?!
Maybe its a good thing because I'll finally get some work done.
I can't wait for the eye to turn yellow.

Ok so the second time back to Leeds really wasn't that good. I never should have returned! ha
We went and met Emma at her flat at the Opal 2. Really nice tall buildings, they look like spaceships or something. From there we went to 02 Academy where there was a night on in the basement. Proper minimal house music, was really weird as it was dead empty and in this tiny basement. £10 in aswell (I got given a voucher for £5 which was pretty cool though).
Not really our scene so not the greatest time but was still OK.
We went back to Emma's and all her lad flatmates were there. We hadn't been out with them. I was in her room with her and then when I came out all of our mates had gone and so had the other lads. Aparrantly this guy we know from home but aren't really mates with had been causing trouble knocking and doors and winding the other group of lads up so everyone had left. I didn't know this had happened at the time though. When I came out Rick said they'd told him to leave even though we were staying there. I got annoyed when I heard this so reacted confronted them asking why and then they reacted badly too and it all escalated and I was on the receiving end of most of it from these 3 or 4 lads. Next thing we know all next door have come in and there are about 12 people all wanting to get at me and Rick. The girls are hysterical and I got locked in a room while Rick reasoned with them. I wasn't too happy about it at the time but was definitely a good idea for my safety (!). We left the flat and went to our mates upstairs then after about 40 mins we head back down and went to bed. I got a fair few whacks so my eye and jaw were swollen. Now the eye is really dark, I have lacerated eyelid and a slight haemmoraghe (sp?) in the eye but I'm ok. Its a lot darker than the photo because of the camera flash but it looks a lot worse than it feels. My jaw isn't in great shape though, and I struggled to chew food before but hopefully it should be better in a couple of days.
We left the next day without seeing the guys again. I don't really know what would have happened if we had, I'm not going to complain because it would cause massive problems for Emma living there but at the same time I want to be able to go up again. It wouldn't have happened if I hadn't confronted them but something had to be said and they may have overreacted a little. What I'm annoyed about most is my missing I-pod. I had to leave it behind without knowing if it was stolen or just lost which is pretty frustrating. All the other lads deny taking it but I don't really know to believe them because I didn't speak to them, but the flat is a mess so I'm hoping it will just turn up. We shall see.
Lost I-pod, face is fucked, eye is bad.. all in all a good trip..

The staff social to Leeds was insane. Or what I remember anyway! I went shopping in the day with two lads I know from home who both work too, and we all got the same stuff. Black pants (cut at the knee), white long sleeved shirt, matching braces and matching school ties. Before we went to meet everyone else at the office we chilled at Pats and played a bit of rockband on the PS3. We were all wearing our matching clothes so it would have looked hilarious to anyone who walked in or looked through the window!
We met at the office and got to know a few of the other people there before the coach came. Free coach to Leeds was wicked, everyone nearly weed themselves towards the end though, its quite far! We got to Gatecrasher for about 12, skipped the queue and were led down to a side room and ushered straight in, entry already paid for! We got some drinks in and it was a really good time, but very messy. At one point drinking free champagne from the bottle, which is a first for me in a club! It was proper high living stuff. Gatecrasher is really good though, a bit small but the music was wicked, they were playing grime, electro, d'n'b, dubstep.. it was top. I went and met Porter (he's on the left in the photo) in another room as he is at Leeds Uni but only saw him for about 20 minutes because his mate got chucked out so he had to leave. Aparrantly Alphabeat were playing that night but I didn't even go in that room I don't think.
Free coach back, the journey was pretty tame as everyone was absolutely wrecked. I got home to The Forge at 5.30AM. I was meant to be in at uni for 9. As you can imagine, that didn't happen. Top night, especially because I only spent £20! Going was a wicked decision though, I met all the bosses properly, they all know who I am now and even the guy who owns it said he was impressed with my figures! I was the only Hall Rep there which is pretty good achievement considering how many of us there are, I got to meet all the other workers aswell. And I knew more people than I thought I would and have got a load of extra people on facebook since

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I sold out my Embrace ticket allocation of 25 for that night aswell, even though I was on the social from 10 which is another good thing. They've put me selling the same next week, my number is getting passed round too so my numbers should keep going up! Selling for the Danny Dyer PA and gangster party on Monday next, but its the night after Carnage again so I don't really know how well I'll do! :S

Last night I went Plug because it was Thalia's birthday. Loads of girls were out, people were down from Leeds, Newcastle and Nottingham for it, then more people were up visiting so we must have known about 60people in there last night! It was just like being home again. All the people from Leeds are competing to have us stay at theirs which is pretty funny. A good problem!
My essay plan was handed in fine today, and later on we're getting the train to Leeds so I will get the chance to see Porter and everyone else again later.
Oh, and I got some Arctic Monkeys Tickets at the Sheffield Arena on 14th November. I don't know why they released any extras but I got 2 standing tickets for me and a mate so am on a massive buzz at the minute! Wooo! Only 3 weeks away. God I love that band!

Sold 43 tickets for Lemar on Monday night. He was good, I'd forgotten what a good song the above is, shame he didn't do "If There's Any Justice" though. Girls went crazy, some lads booed, thats life ha. He posed for photos at the end but to be honest I wasn't too bothered. I'll get one with Danny Dyer next week, well keen for that! My figures were very impressive though, the other girl at the Forge only sold 14 which made me feel kind of bad because she gave me a lift there and I made her look bad. So after selling 43 I got put on another night at Embrace, Boing Boing which is tonight and a pyjama party. Going well so far, sold about half of my 25 allocation which is alright considering I'm going Leeds at 9 tonight.. Embrace are starting to put pressure on the company though because they feel they could make more money with another night.. Its always rammed in there so I don't get it but whatever!

I've done all my lectures for the day. They were a complete waste of time but I'm definitely growing to like a lot of the people on my course. I'm starting to talk to them all a little bit more now aswell.
Just polished up my essay plan which is in tomorrow. Its 5% of the module so is our first proper piece of work, I'm quite pleased with how its gone so I hope I'll do OK!

Tonight its a staff social to Leeds so I doubt I'll be in Uni tomorrow :S. Its a compulsory school disco theme which should be a laugh. I only know 4 people who are going out of about 50 so it should be interesting. I only found out about it last night, I don't even know where we're going in Leeds!! Random nights are always the best though so I'm well up for it

My weekend was thus..

Friday - Day off so I chilled to the max and then in the nighttimes headed to West Street. Me, Rick, Timmy & his gf and Helen and her mate all went to Players and it was a bit more expensive than normal (because it was a friday) so we weren't enjoying it as much as normal. We went to get money out to go to the next place but realised there was no point so headed back to the flat and watched anchorman. I fell asleep and everyone left me (apparently I was totally unresponsive to pokes, slaps and shouting) so I woke up cold and alone at 5am. Would have been a total waste of a night had we not met Helen's mate who is very nice and lives in some accomodation about 5 minute walk away. Its good to know people elsewhere in Sheffield.

Saturday - Mum and Dad came up to visit. I showed them around the city a bit, had a catch up and chill in the flat.. they met Rick's mum and dad aswell, then they toook me for a meal and food shop. Then as they were leaving they gave me some money and told me to buy a nice jumper. Very lucky boy . After that I met Dom and he gave me a shitload of flyers and posters to hand out and put up promoting the next night that I'm selling, which features a Lemar PA! We had a night in and some of the girls next door came round and we watched X-Factor , Saw, and Match of The Day.

Sunday - Big lie in and chill, then headed to The Scholar to watch City-Wigan. Not our greatest performance, shame about Zabaleta getting sent off but he can have no complaints really. That ruined any chance of us winning but its a point gained I suppose.. After that I went around putting flyers under people's doors and putting posters up (yes I am one of those hassling bastards! Thats the one part of the job I hate!) Watched X-factor again and was pleasantly surprised by Cheryl Cole. I think the size of that stage and the amount of dancers can make anyone look good singing. Should be me.

Monday - Already been in uni and had a spinning class at the gym which was good. Going to cook now and head back to uni in like an hour then should sell the rest of my tickets after that. I was originally given 50 and have sold about 12 so far which is wicked, this time last week I'd sold 0! I'll expect a load of phonecalls later on, its Lemar so the tickets are selling themselves, its too easy! Free night for me this evening!

So there is a story in the paper at the minute involving someone at my uni and a bar crawl I was on last night. Carnage was last Sunday, It was incredible, but in the last few days this picture has surfaced. Its disgusting and I'm not going to discredit myself by having it on my pages so click the link. The story is here.
This guy is a complete moron. Phil Laind, if you somehow find this page by googling yourself I really really hope I bump in to you somewhere, at uni or out, day or night, because you sir, are a waste of oxygen. I have never been so pissed off about a story in the paper in my life. How you have not been kicked out yet I don't know. You are scum. No excuse for it, of the tens of thousands of students yearly who do carnage, in fact, the thousands who did it that night you were the only one who went and pissed on a war memorial. What is wrong with you? You not do History at school? You not have any grandparents? Prick. I guess thats what happens when you give a public school boy his first beers in quick succession. I'm not annoyed at you getting pissed, it was a bar crawl, everyone, including myself was. But this is just stupid. What were you thinking? You had enough sense to know what you were doing at the time because you admitted your name to whoever took the photo.
I spoke to my mum on the phone that night before and told her I was going on Carnage. She will have read the paper and thought, Daniel was on that. She'll probably kick off when I tell her tomorrow I'm getting a T-shirt for the next one (which I assume I won't be seeing you on?). Cheers. You're a twat.

I searched you on facebook today, seen your profile and stuff before you made it private. You looked like you were a prick before this even happened on all your travelling photos and general profile information, typical Kings Macc rich boy. What made me even more pissed off was your mates writing on your wall calling you a "legend" "funniest thing ever" and congratulating you for being on Radio 1. That made me even more fucked off, typical private school brats thinking their the dogs bullocks and completely immune and above anything. I hope you're put on sex offenders, community service, explain yourself to people at a barracks, made to walk down West Street with a sign saying what you did, prison, anything and everything. If I didn't already have lectures etc. I'd be coming to see how it goes down at magistrate's on 22nd.
LEAVE UNI because you will forever be that guy.

Anyone reading this I am genuinely sorry on behalf of this prick.. Hallam is a good uni, we are not all like him.