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June 07, 2005
Bank holiday hangovers
Work ended on Friday like any other day before a bank holiday weekend: extremely well. I had planned to have a quiet few days in, given that I’m supposed to be saving money for a stag weekend in Amsterdam, beginning this Friday. Instead, I spent three happy days in with my girlfriend in Ranelagh, including shopping trips to buy such necessaries as chocolate biscuits and new clothes to wear instead of having to go home to get clean ones.
Our only social engagement was attending a party on Sunday night, held in a friend’s honour, given her departure to sunnier shores at the end of the week. She routinely goes abroad to save turtles, something I can only approve of, though I hear spending a month on a sunny beach in Greece has its own compensations.
This upcoming stag will be my first. Up to now my male friends just haven’t been inclined towards marriage. Or my female friends, for that matter, though I hear their modes of celebration involve somewhat higher counts of drinking straws in the shape of male genitalia (that one’s not safe for work, in case you can’t guess). This kind of thing is how castration neuroses start, you know.
Posted by Oliver at June 7, 2005 04:16 PM
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