First truly proper sunny day of the year today. Across London people where getting up, taking off their clothes, putting on some clothes going outside then taking off some of those clothes again.
I wasn’t
I had a early twenties hangover.
By this I mean that now I am mid twenties and don’t go out and get drunk every night like I did way back when in my early twenties Now I’m in my mid twenties I still drink possibly more than I should, but not often have that drunken feeling nor have decapacifying (ooh, I made a word) hangover.
Today, I did. I’d been out to a goth club, I remember drunkenly staggering home in my big boots and make up, a definite hazy recollection of losing balance in my silly boots twice on Chapel Market and falling over, one time the bottle of water I was carrying flew from my hand and under a moving car, which exploded (the bottle, not the car).
I woke up at about eleven, feeling conspicuously fine. Then over the course of the day as the sun turned up its thermostat a notch to cause people to don bikinis and sit on skanky grass across the capital, I put the telly on in my dressing gown.
By two pm I realised I was hungover, this realisation mainly shocked me as I noticed I hadn’t moved and the cup of tea that I’d left to brew was now stone cold. I hadn’t been asleep…but my mind had been.
uktv documentary had a day of programmes about space… ever since I was a kid I’ve liked space…so it was with true horror that I finally peeled myself off of the sofa to have a shower at SIX O CLOCK. Sainsbury’s was shut and so I had to eventually manage to make it to the newsagents. In there the choice was startling, I needed bread, but I wanted a treat. But trying to be healthy, oh what to do… I eventually plumped for a tin of Del Monte Fruit Cocktail, like when I were a lad.
I then realised I was in shop wearing my house jumper, the scruffiest holiest and most food staineded jumper I own. I look like a tramp, and in fairness, I am one.
I go home to watch more crap telly and fall asleep.
Even people in intensive care have done more than me today.