Summer Social Part 2

Continuing on from yesterday / this morning, we headed back to the union at about 10:50am to be there for the opening of the café for breakfast. Amazingly, there were several people there before us but we clearly dominated the outside and I'm amazed the kitchen kept up with the orders. About thirty meaty breakfasts were cooked very promptly and eaten just as quickly. I had reached the point at which I didn't feel great and couuldn;t work out whether that was from eating something dodgy or lack of food. I put it down to lack of food as I'd not managed to eat a lot of dinner and had been playing on the sea-saw swing rather a lot which wouldn't have helped.

I made the correct diagnoses and felt much better after a nice cooked brekkie. Then it was off to catch a few z's before tonight's Pop Tarts that I was crewing. I was in a much better state than everyone else having not had any alcohol but I was shattered from lack of sleep and would have probably injured myself had I not had any sleep beforehand.

I managed about five hours before quickly eating some dinner and heading back down to the union for what was going to be the easiest set up in the world. Pop Tarts was in the Foundry last night and so nothing really needed to be done. As such, we decided to go on a fixing spree and try to repair the broken lights in the Fusion. As the DJ complained almost every week that the number of lights he had was diminishing, we thought we'd be nice and try and get a few sorted. We managed to get 5 / 6 working which was pretty good going. The sixth had a problem with the cable rather than a simple bulb problem. By the time they were hooked up in the other room however, we were down to four and then three. Rather worryingly, poking the fourth with a plastic cable tie seemed to make it work and so I assume there is a dodgy connection somewhere in there that can be sorted some other time. I also found out why the lights trip when you try and switch them on. They auto strike when they are powered (that is the bulb comes on). As they are pretty powerful bulbs, they require a lot of power to switch them on and then it normalises. Trying to do this for four lights simultaneously puts too much of a strain on the circuit and trips the switch. Turning them on one at a time seems to resolve this.

We decided to get a Chinese takeaway for dinner and ended up waiting over an hour for it. There was some confusion over where to deliver it as we could hardly get to to bring it backstage. It got there fine in the end but squeezing past a room full of hot sweaty punters with your food was horrible and an experience I never want to repeat. It was a sell out night and for good reason as the Summer Social was a sell out too.

At the end of the night, the punters refused to go home and insisted on staying and singing 'Footballs coming home'. To prevent a lot of fighting, we had to turn the music back on again to give them their one last song before they left. It was a good half an hour before security finally managed to coax them all out of the building so that we could finally start packing stuff away.