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Thursday, November 20, 2003 TIME What a bizarre day... In so many respects. Bought one of those cool German magnetic poetry kits using b'day voucher for Foreign Language Bookshop - pondered getting Harry Potter in German. looked quite cool... Saw Shazza at Kay House. Followed by Matt / Nick. Not followed by, as in stalked, but saw them after seeing Shazza... walked to Royal Exhibition Building. Met Faye and James. Walked to get lunch at Melb Central. Spoke about Simpsons (Hans Moleman) and Boston Pubic (sic). Faye thought the spinach and pumpkin gnocchi was as good as she remembered. Caught tram back to REB. Was pouring down. Saw a guy from work who had criminology exam but didn't know where it was.... Left the tram stop and was DRENCHED on the walk up to REB. Several, many actually, commented on how wet I was. I told them that getting wet was something I do quite well.... better than most I'd say. (i have the technology...) Such bizarre weather.... Was boiling when I first met James and Faye, then bitterly cold and pouring when we returned to the REB. (Last night's humid thunderstorm was something too...) Discovered that Crim was also being held in REB. Hopefully my workmate realised it was in the REB and didn't fail or anything.... Sat German 3C exam. Final exam for German. Went well. About Integration vs. Assimiliation. Language as the key to achieving this yadda yadda. Right up my alley. Could blabber quite convincingly.... Had 2 hours to dry off in exam, but my powers of wetness won out and I remained damp. (That term 'powers of wetness' sounded better in my head, alright?!) Milled around lockers collecting bags etc, before receiving a belated birthday present. It was also a congratulations on finishing German / one degree present, which I was very touched by. A lovely thought. I really appreciated it. Thanks Chris and Kate :) :) Several of us Deutschies then walked up to The Napier, which was, funnily enough, located on Napier St. Sat in beer garden eating chips / garlic bread, drinking and was generally having a great time. Noticed that the sky did not change for hours at a time and that we were in a static bubble where time had no meaning. And not only that the sky seemed to have no meaning... What I mean by that, is that it could've been 5am and the sun was about to come up, or it could've been a cloudy 2pm, when in reality it was the strange non temporal 7pm... Talked about all manner of things. Guys names as girls names. We decided Henry, Harry and Charles didn't work. (Although Charlie and Andy/Andie work quite well...) Actually come to think about it we also discussed what the eating disorder would be called for those that depended on their meals being ingested at certain times of the day. And if they didn't ingest the food at that precise time, say dinner time 6pm, they would throw the food up....We decided upon Bulimia Temporales... In another random conversation, Kate believed letters starting with an 's'(ZIMON!!) followed by another consonant (excluding 'h' as it's merely a digraph, showing two letters [di-graph] for the one sound [sh]) were all evil words, or they had bad connotations to them. Think about it. skanky, slovenly, scandalous (both the word and the band *Scandal'Us), skater, stoned, stoner, smite (it has powerfully bad connotations...). We only came up with 'smile' as one exception :). Comment on other ones..... Walked back to Melbourne Central to catch train home. Caught train. Pleasant conversation. Parent's occupations. Occupations in general. Medicine. Choosing medicine at uni. Why people choose this fate. Cutting up cadavars. Students not realising the consequences of this. Just how weird it is. The conversation then took a decidedly different tack and i found we were speaking about blood. Now those that know me quite well, will know I have an aversion to blood and anything blood-related in a very real sense. Anyway, Kate and I were talking and Kate said that she, like me, fainted when talking about it. I thought 'oh that's weird' and then I yawned and knew it wasn't one of those tired-yawns, but was more a 'AJ is going to faint yawn' and i thought 'crap!' (Does anyone else know when something such as that is going to happen...?) ... The Nunawading station was approaching and we were going to get off here as I was going to get a lift with Kate home... I remember standing up with my bag, walking toward the doors of the carriage, holding onto the pole, everything went yellow and then about 3 minutes of my life passed without my knowledge. I am told that I was holding onto the pole, while Kate was pulling my arm trying to get me to get off the train, while I was a nice shade of green/peuce. Allegedly, I kept saying 'no, I can't, I can't, inbetween these colour shifts but I can't remember it at all! When I came to, and came out of my 'panic attack' as Kate called it, I half-saw her face and also saw the sign 'Mitcham' approaching. I thought 'what the?!" but was too spun out to really pay attention... My hand was pressed very hard against the glass of the door and Kate was supporting my other side. I heard some guy asking whether I 'need[ed] a hand' and I stepped gingerly off the train onto the platform. Everything was in this horrendous yellow colour and my head was spinning so much. I was completely out of control. I could do nothing. Anyway, we got off at Mitcham and I realised that we were in fact at the wrong station and was very embarassed and remember saying 'this is lame', but Kate was very kind and understanding and didn't make me feel like the strange person I felt like... We sat down on one of the benches while everything came into focus and it was one of the most bizarre experiences of my life. I had never experienced lapses of time before and I was appalled / intrigued as to why this occurred. It does now not surprise my in the slightest why people devote their lives to studying the brain and its intracacies... Drove home. Ate. Listened to Cat Empire. It is now. Did not actually realised that in the various conversations/ actions of the day, time featured prominently. And not in its normal linear sense. See, I told you I had a bizarre day. posted by AJ | 10:56 PM | | ||
