SIAD Conference, Lack of Updates Sorry

2004-03-02 at 11:55 p.m.

But I'm online now so I shall give you a rundown of what I've been up to.

On Saturday I went to the SIAD (Self Injury Awareness Day) event in London. Peter from Safe Haven had given me his mobile number so I was going to meet him. I got the bus along to Limehouse, managed to find the building easy enough, and hung about outside for ages (I was early) until I spotted two girls (Ruth and Sarah, or was it Kate, I have no memory) who were the first people I had seen who didn't look like they were stallholders or organisers. I decided to tag along with them and they didn't seem to mind. Went through all the various stalls, bought myself a badge, a bracelet and a booklet off Lifesigns. Those bracelets are a right bugger to make by the way, particularly if you cannot figure out how to use the "threader" provided.

Well, it didn't take all that long to look round the stalls and there didn't seem to be anything else to do nor very many people to talk to so I left. Went to have a coffee then met up with Peter. He turned out to be a bit different than I expected, younger, and Finnish. Anyway, had a chat, looked at the stalls (again) and left (again).

It was a bit disappointing really. I suppose if I was organising it I'd have had talks and maybe, I dunno, quizzes or something. Something to keep people there and get them talking to each other. Everyone seemed nervous when I was there. Maybe it got better later on. I just think it didn't use its potential - and was very badly advertised, I must say. Maybe we should all write in to the TV companies and MPs next time and try to get some sort of awareness thing going on so people who DON'T SI might hear about it?

Since then I've been pottering about. My dad came back on Monday from the north. I've been reading, eating too much, boring stuff. Cut again, but no feeling either good or bad resulted from it. I've run out of medication and I don't see the doctor till a week Thursday but thats ok because its only the sodium valproate I've run out of - not the moclobemide which makes me feel ill if I miss a dose.

ummm...oh yeah, and tonight I heard a really irritating news report saying London should become a separate country, because then it would be rich and the evil rest of the country wouldn't demand less than their due from London. Except that in addition to receiving less from the excequer than London does we also support it in terms of having corporation tax paid here as well as more jobs than the rest of the country. Go ahead, become independent, then we can all watch and snigger as you wither and then come begging to the "frozen" and unappreciated north for financial assistance.

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