Battlefield

I've been drifting in and out of consciousness for the past two or three weeks -

Consciousness between this world and that, between London and heaven, between then and now...

My name is Ophelia

... sometimes

Sometimes I'm drowning, sometimes I'm soaring, sometimes I'm so alive I can't feel anything except the pulse rushing through my head, sometimes I'm so dead I need a knife to make me bleed.

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On Thursday I was 'happy' and 'normal'.

I was SO happy and normal.

I went to law school, made it in for the 9am lecture start, sat between two of my girlfriends, giggled though the whole day with them, went out with my tutor group for drinks and a meal at the end of the day, laughed, chatted incessantly and finally took the first footprints in the thick, fresh snow as I wandered home in the early hours with a sweet smile on my face.

And then I shut the door, and I'm drowning again, until the next time...

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His name is "D".

Yes - another male name which will feature in this blog.

I make no apologies. If I fall, I fall - even if it happens too often and too easily.

D is the guy I mentioned in the last post.

...I didn't think it would get to this.

...I had almost cut my ties with ''the club''.

For months in 'The Club' I avoided all men - and the week I announce I'm leaving, I fall, and now I think I'm going to stay. Shit. [I will refer to this club as 'the club' for my identity's sake]

Ok so as I said before in the last post, he knew who I was, he added me on facebook, I accepted simply because we had mutual friends and it was clear he was a member of 'the club', even though I'd never knowingly met him. So he talks to me at the ball and offers to help me out with something, and I have to ask who the fuck he is and then am embarrassed to find out that really, I should know as I accepted him on facebook. ANYWAY all that aside, me thinking he might like me, and me starving for male attention more than any other nourishment, I decided to pursue it, just for some kicks, maybe more... so I message him on facebook... and the messages run back and forth a little... and it seems that there may be something there... he seems keen to see me again at 'the club'... he sends me his number... and we progress to texts... and it seems even more likely... he invites me to an event the club is holding...

And so now I really like him. Basically. You know how I get obsessed? Yeah, obsessed.

But now I can't quit the club. He's offered to help me out with something related to the club and more importantly, he's invited me to go to his house to do it. (Fuck! We've only had one really short conversation face to face which was at the ball two weeks ago!)

So why was I so happy and motivated on Thursday? He'd sent that text the night before: ''I can give you a hand... if you like... you could come here''

But it means I can't quit 'the club'. Shit, shit, shit.

So now I'm obsessed with this guy and can't escape this club which is soaking up valuable time which should be spent on law studies!

And I can't even go to his house until the new year because he's away for Christmas.

So I'm just left here stewing.

HOWEVER. As I have said before, having a mission to get a certain guy is the absolute best motivation for losing weight. Skinny, skinny, SKINNY! I have to be skinny when I go to his house. Oh my God, I am going to ring his doorbell and knock him dead. I am going to be the hottest thing he has ever opened the door to. I am going to look the best I have ever done; the best I know I can be.

Well, the best I can be in two weeks.

And fuck the fact that it's Christmas and I'm supposed to get fat.

Fuck the fact that the last three Christmas's I ballooned with an extra stone of weight.

Fuck all the food my mum has stuffed the kitchen full of, all the shit that is going be lining the plates and stomachs of the nation this holiday season is not going anywhere near my sacred mouth.

I'm going to be the only person losing weight.

And as God is my witness, I sure as hell can do it.

This is my addictive game - and my God I love playing it: Get the guy. Be thin. Be beautiful. Be irresistible. W-I-N.

I will drown for him. And in two weeks, when I reach the bottom, I will go to him with hungry lips and my head held high.

It is impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

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Let the battle commence...

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Ophelia v Christmas

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