In a sudden reversal of normality, Monash wasn't windy while the rest of Victoria was being whipped by gale-force winds.
That's what I'd like to one day say truthfully.
In actual fact, while Victoria was being whipped by gale-force winds, Monash was caught in a TORNADO. I swear I'm still shivering from the cold. Maybe it was a stupid idea to wait outside the French room 15 mins early.
Uni was a lonely affair during my first break at 11 - 12. No one there. So I did something I normally don't do, because I consider it an utter waste of time, on par with sleeping. I stared out the window in the law library for at least half an hour. And I had my laptop on me as well. Just general ceebs I guess.
So it was that I went to my French room 15 minutes early in the the vague hope that Irene would be there early. Turned out to be a bad idea. Irene, like a sane person, turned up just when class was about to start, and I had been blown five metres from my original standing position by the ridiculous winds.
Reflections from uni today:
- lack of friends during break highlight how miserable uni would be without friends.
- friends seem to come in floods. I either don't see anyone for a whole hour, or I see friends from all different social groups in one place, whereby I have to talk to multiple people who don't know each other.
- Some one at Monash must have upset the wind gods once upon a time.
ANYWAY. In keeping my current fascination with time travel, I'm now going to talk about the dinner that happened last night.
Before that, I'm going to go on about my lost scarf for a bit.
So on Friday, I left my scarf outside Nando's at Melbourne Central. I called them a couple of hours later, told them I had left a black and white striped scarf out the front, they said no worries, we've got it.
I rock up there yesterday arvo, spirits sky high, then I get shot down because not only do they bring out a scarf which isn't mine, but it's a girl's scarf. I mean sure, it was black and white, but it was checkered. And girl-like. I knew I couldn't be so lucky.
So "Ambassadors" dinner, and pre-dinner snacks, and more pre-dinner snacks was a blast. It was so awesome. I dunno why. I mean, I could still barely walk.
What happened is as follows. James and I (yeah, correct grammar, take that!) caught the Glen line, headed out to MC and to Nando's (worst Nando's ever by the way). Scarfgate occurred, I had a sulk, hardened up, and we met Hayley up there. A few moments later, who did we espy but Elena and Stef with an F downstairs. They told us they were coming up. However, girls' attraction to shoes will never cease to amaze me. On the way to meeting us, they manage to stop off at a shoe shop and try some out. And we're all like, "Sooooo...where are they?"
We ended up looking for them, found them and walked to Myer so James and I could buy ice-cream (random much?) The girls then decided they wanted Max Brenner/Bubblecup/Grill'd, so where else but QV next. James, Hayley and I bought chips, Stef with an F bought waffles (I think) and some strawberry stuff with Elena, all of which made us very full.
AND THEN. Kevin Hu sneak attack! The guy full ambushed us in Grill'd. He just HAPPENS to wander into Grill'd. So we ended up having high times with Big Kev and the rest of us.
So back to Melbourne Central to meet with Kanji "I was half an hour late" Low and David "I'm twenty minutes away from MC" Meng. Meng ended up being about 20 mins off his ETA, while Kanji...met us at the restaurant.
AND THEN. The 5 billionth random thing of the day happened. Ran into Orrin and Cathy AND Tom at MC. They decided to join us for dinner cos their friend Kate didn't rock up.
So off to Chinatown we went. Meng and I got lost because Meng has no idea where he's going at the best of times, and I was following him. Also because we were seeing Kevin off while the rest of the traitorous scum left us. So after about 10 minutes sauntering (or, in my case, shuffling awkwardly) around the bad streets of Chinatown, we got there.
For some strange reason, there were stairs everywhere in that restaurant. Food wasn't too bad, we'll leave it at that.
Afterwards, caught up with Ray at Fed Square, and also met Seb. On the way, guess what, something random happened. Michael Phan popped up out of nowhere. Good times all around.
The girls wanted to go Maccas, Tom wanted to go Starbucks. We went to Maccas first, I entertained everyone with my trademark humour, then we went our separate ways because Tom has shares in Starbucks so he only buys food and drink from there. Bye Orrin and Co.
After chilling at Maccas, went to Flinders and randomly met Ray and Co there. All the cool people caught the Glen Waverley back (James was reflecting on whether it would pay more to bet on a triple in the dice game at Crown or me catching the Glen twice in a day), and more good times ensued, mostly due to Ray and his awesome English ("Wait...what you just said...was that in Latin or English?") If only more people had turned up *cough* not naming anyone because I'm a nice guy *cough*, would've been an absolute highlight of this half of the year...because it's been so long since this half of the year started.
I'm sure I didn't do the night justice, as I definitely left stuff out. Probably all my awesome jokes and all the bad ones that Meng made. Should do it again sometime, but not on a Friday.
Word of the Day: Dinner
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