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Even though I currently feel quite depressed and simultaneously annoyed at myself, I'm going to write about my most happy times from Friday - Sunday.

Friday:

It rained all day. I woke up before the sunrise to get to school and do some more of my comm work. I think it is abnormal for any human to want to get up before a sunrise (unless it is to see the sunrise) and i found it super difficult to leave my bed. I normally tell myself, "you should get out to get some tea... and then you can get back into bed." and then I know by the time I get out and get the tea I'm smart enough not to get back in.

I got to Uni before 8am which doesn't sound supppper early but it felt super super early. No one was in the labs which was rad. I managed to finish up my renders and make it in time for history. I didn't have to go to history (because i did my presentation last week) but I went anyway to that I could be there to support friends. No one else that presented last week came so the class was only half full. My friends did a really good job. Nay had a quote that could have totally suited my presentation and we talked about it after class. It was something about the human adjusting to the home and vice versa. Krisi did super research about community housing and I felt like I learnt a lot from hers.

I had lunch with Krisi, Nay and Michael at fed square. We all shared noodles (two bowls - egg noodles, soba) and they were really tasty and had tofu (i love you tofu) and it was so nice to be inside and warm away from the rain. We were all pretty exhausted from the week. Our conversations were full of laughter and that made me really happy.

We half walked half trammed back to Melbourne central and had free tea from T2.

Studio was sad because it was our last class and pandas made a slide show. I'm happier with my idea and I spoke to Ariel more about it.

After the quick meeting, Brooke showed me her new house. It was completely different from her last one. She shares it with 5 other people. I really liked how many floors the house had. I think there were three and on each level there were different things. It reminded me of this lovely duplex my mum back in the day of house hunting for fun.

We noticed that were was a leak coming from her ceiling onto her bed so she and one of her roomie's moved the bed to the other side of the room. We played some mario kart to get her mind off of the leaking. I lost. Again. Ok I came last in one race (how can i not beat the computer???) and then i.. came... 7th or something and then i kept falling off the stupid rainbow road! Rahhh. I just need practise I'm sure!

We left to meet the class at dinner but we just missed the tram so had to wait 15 minutes in the freezing cold. I really need to buy some pants or thicker tights.

It was nice to have dinner with the majority of the class. We ate at a korean restaurant. I don't actually remember eating all that much except the kimchi pancake and that was super yumyum. mmm kimchi.

After dinner a few of us (Pandas, Veev, Sarah, Brooke, Valaya and Elise) went to Prudence. I was so glad that their outside had a heater! I spent most of the time talking to Andii and Veev about TV and movies. It was hilarious to see veev get so into talking about Drive and all the TV she watches. At one point we were talking about good movies to watch and after she had suggested Drive she said, "Scott Pilgrim" and Andii was saying how she'd watched that a number of times and I was thinking yayyyyy i've found people who like that humour (not that's hard to like, but last year I showed some old uni friends the movie and they DIDN'T GET IT and i was so shocked and they were like, "so izzy, this is how you see the world? this is your humour?") anyway. It's awesome and made me laugh.

I also talked to Sarah about potatoes. The other night I spoke to her very early in the morning (i think maybe 2am) about potatoes. I have no idea how we got onto the topic or why I was awake but she told me she had a potato story to tell me. I was laughing to much about her love for potatoes. It is quite extraordinary! Hehehe.

I was getting sleepy and after we left Veev, Sarah and I went to get some chips and gravy at some place near China town. After that Sarah and i took the tram back to our houses. It's been nice because recently I have been speaking to Sarah more.


Saturday:

Mid morning I went to Glen Waverely to see my Aunties and mum and have brunch with them. I got to Richmond station on time for my train (i was early 10 minutes) and i texted my mum, "guessss what!!!" and she texted back, "If you missed the train I DON'T WANT TO KNOW." hahaha. She was happy and surprised to know I was early for my train for once in my life. At lunch my aunties were trying to organise a small birthday dinner for me at some fancy place. Brunch was decent, but it was just nice to see them all and chat for a while. I had to leave at 2 to get to Uni because Louis came in to help anybody who needed it.

I wasn't intending to stay the whole day at uni but I started to get really into After Effects and I was just keen on finishing my work so that I could just concentrate on Studio. I ended up staying till 9pm with Laura but we both managed to finish our 30 second film.

I was so so happy (as seen in the other post) about finishing my work. I honestly was so shocked at myself for finishing the assignment a week early. It felt great and also scary hahaha.


Sunday:

I woke up early to meet Vic at Fed square. We set up her stall and had some tea. The day went smoothly and Vic and I worked as a really good team. She said, "After a customer finishes, I keep thinking "what do I have to do next?" and before i notice, you've already done all the things!" It was actually quite funny and nice to see how we worked together. She would swipe someone's card and wait for the merchant receipt and once she took it out of the machine, i'd take it from her hand and write down what we just sold and put it in a book and she'd be talking to the customers and i'd take the machine out of her hand and put it back on the shelf.

It was a really cold day but it was brightened up by the nice people I kept meeting and the lovely surprise cake that arrived for me and Vic from Nat @ Beatrix!

lime chiffon cake

I spoke a bit to Lara from Ink & Spindle about her work and that was interesting! I also saw Sass (ask alice stationery) which was super nice because I haven't seen her since we met for laksa a long while ago! I met a lot of creative people throughout the day, they were all friends of Vic and all seemed really nice.

Juae from class came to the market! She said she saw my fb post about it and came to see me which was sooo lovely of her :D She's actually the only person that came to visit me, but it was super nice and unexpected - just what I like. Hahaha.

I have had a really happy few days. I suppose it's just bad luck to have lost my little unicorn. It still makes me sad thinking of him, but this feeling will be with me for a while. I know that it's just a learning step not to put precious things in places that are unstable. I think it's just meant to be. I went for a walk today and kept looking out for it on the ground. I never noticed how many things are left behind, purposely or by mistake. I spotted many things I would have ignored if it wasn't for the fact that I lost something of my own.

I think i am sad because it was something i made by hand and was my own idea and now it's just out there and lost to the world. I keep thinking, "maybe in the fuuuuuuture someone will find it and see my name etched in it and i'll be long gone but my little unicorn will live on." hahaha, sigh.