I used to think budgies were cute, OK?
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I was on a packed train looking at this tradie man who appeared real tough. He had his iphone pugged in and was listening to music really loudly. I didn't pay much attention to what the song was... I was thinking more about whether or not he knew that everyone around him could hear what the song was. Then I caught onto the melody... It was Big Jet Plane by Angus and Julia Stone. I noticed he had closed his eyes. He looked really peaceful.
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I was running to the station and ran into Tara outside. She had literally seen me run up a slight hill in a mad rush to get the train and it was awkward but really quite funny for both of us. We had a super quick conversation... but it was actually great. I was quite in a rush and a feeling a bit awkward and randomly said to her "sorry about the other day! I'm a bit retarded in big groups, I don't talk much.. cus I'm trying to listen to everyone.. I think I get overwhelmed! But the breakfast was nice! It was good to see everyone!" and she replied, "what! no! It's just me... I'm so dominating. I don't even mean to be! I don't let people get a word in!" and we talked about meeting up and having an actual one-on-one coffee.. which would be great cus I could actually get to know her. Hahaha. So that's something to look forward to in the future. She is such a hilarious character, she's so good with words.
I met with Casi after that. We went for drinks at Open Studio. I hadn't seen her in a really long time cus she had been in Berlin helping her Liam settle into his new life. I think all night I listened to her say how much she missed being overseas and also her thoughts about being apart from him. She'd only come back on Wednesday, so I knew that she was still adjusting and that our conversation wouldn't get to the point of being super happy or anything. We talked about having another day where we will bake a vegan pie and have it with soy ice cream. We talked about the feeling of not having someone always there and missing comfort. She talked about all the great vegan places (ice cream ones too, yum) she found in Berlin and how Liam bought a really nice, old, saxophone from a man who was sad to part with it. It was lovely to see her, but also a bit sad to see/feel that she is unhappy and a bit lost.
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Steph came over today and we put fabric around the outside of the boxes we had made for our Studio class.
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We had to iron a really large 3m piece of fabric so that it wouldn't look so creased when stretched around the box.... and we both kind of gave up because it was so difficult and we said we would just "design around the creases"
Steph took a photo of me while I was in struggle town, and made it a meme and sent it to me later in the day.... I laughed so hard.
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It was exciting to actually see it up and working. I think I will be going in tomo to try and figure out how to make different layers on the program. The people in the lab (none of which we knew) all made comments like "wooow so cool!" and asked us what programs we were using. It was pretty funny because we were using the default animation at the time... But it was really good to be practicing using something that we wouldn't have learnt if we didn't do this class.
Afterwards, I met with Jimmy and he treated me to dessert. He finished telling me the story that he started on the train a couple weeks ago and it was all really interesting to hear about his life. He is one of the more constant friends in my life and I think it's always kind of special to just hear about another person's life and things that they've experienced and then their own contemplations about those experiences.
Later, I met with Jing and Andy for dinner. We took him to the spicy fish place that we always go to. After about 10 minutes he started to slow down, sweat a bit and say "this ... is really spicy... I think I need more rice." hahaha. Jing and I were comforting him and telling him things like, "we were like that the first time we ate here! You've just gotta come here more often!"
It was the first time I've had dinner with both of them. It was pretty chill and afterwards we all shared a crepe at this french crepe place near our house. When we got home, Jing went into her room and was talking to someone and I gave Andy some rice milk and some herbal jelly stuff to "calm his stomach" cus it was "on fire" and he said he felt way better after that. Rice milk is awesommmee.
He and I talked a lot in the kitchen and just got to know each other a little more. He is a pretty nice guy and I am glad to have gotten to the stage where we're comfortable around each other and actually have decent conversations.
Good weekend, got through a lot of thoughts.
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