My mum just yelled at me, literally yelled at me like I was some sort of hooligan masturbating on the street corner, "Stop eating! All you've been doing is eating since you got home!" I did not appreciate the outburst and, instead of finding it "constructive criticism" as she would have insisted if I'd said anything, found it completely rude and insensitive. Now I feel fat and ugly. Parents are great like that.
I went to enroll in uni yesterday. I went really early as I got a lift with my dad down on his way to work. At "step one" of enrolment, this girl comes up to me and says, "Is your name Junaberry?" I look at her. She is Asian, she is small of stature. There's a good chance I know her. "Yes..?" To this she says, "We met at PACES," and I reply, "Oh, you're Meiling!" Henceforth we completed enrolment together. Three hours together and this was only the second time I've met her. Fair enough, she's friends with Big Michelle and so we do have a mutual friend and thus this lessens the strangeness.
This encounter really got me thinking about socializing and making friends. I mentioned before about the Jewish guy I met at my first aid course who I spent 45 minutes talking to after the course. To this day I still don't know his name and he probably doesn't know mine. Isn't that bizarre? You watch movies and television and you see people meeting someone new. It always goes along the lines of this:
Person A: Hi there! I think I saw you the other day at the swimming pool. My name's Francesca Schiavone.
Person B: Oh yeah! I thought I recognized you! I'm Robert. Robert Soderling. That's my name. Don't wear it out! Har har har.
Person A: Nice to meet you, Robert. So what are you doing 'round these parts?
Person B: Oh, just meeting up with my drug dealer. E tu?
And so on, so forth. This is completely misleading (as far as I'm concerned) because I think introductions are very different in real life when there is no script, thoughts are racing, awkwardness is on the uprise. The situation is much more similar to this:
Jewish Guy: Oh hey.
Me: 'Sup?
Jewish Guy: Not much. You waiting for your ride too?
Me: Yeah. I couldn't be bothered catching a bus. Too hot.
Jewish Guy: Totes. I hate the hot weather.
Me: Same.
And so on, so forth goes this riveting conversation. Finally, "Jewish Guy" and "Me" get to the point in the conversation where they're talking about their hopes and dreams and they still don't know each others' names and then they get to the point when one ("Jewish Guy") of their rides gets there and they leave and still, no names have passed through lips nor nicknames nor anything else which identifies them as uniquely them besides their freckles and dots.
What's up with that?
It makes meeting for a second time a whole lot more awkward:
Jewish Guy: Oh hey... you!
Me: Hi! Good to see you again... you. How's it going?
Jewish Guy: Great. Just great.
Me: Alright... I'm going to leave now.
J
About Me
- Junaberry
- I'm a student from Australia who used to have a lot of time on her hands but doesn't have that much anymore. Now she has other stuff on her hands.
3 comments:
"...like I was some sort of hooligan masturbating on the street corner"
I am literally weeping at the hilarity of all this.
Suwen! :)
Does your mascara volumize, lengthen, or just sort of ...clumps? I'm in search of a new Mascara that isn't waterproof because that shit plucks out my lashes whenever I take make-up off. I've considered the maybe it's Maybelline 'Falsies' but, idk.
Man, I created my blogspot at the beginning of Summer, hoping that I'd fill it with whimsical photography, my adventurous tales and general wynn observations on life.
It was nice seeing you at Kim's
"Alright...I'm going to leave now"
WELL my new mascara... well, as u know i have very short and straight eyelashes which sucks but my mascara does sort of lengthen with a slight curl which amazes me. you have longer lashes so it should work better for u and emphasize the natural curl. it doesn't really volumize... just lengthn. it's not very clumpy either which is good.
maybe it's maybelline falsies looks pretty good
u should fill your blogspot with whimsical photography, adventurous tales and general wynn observations on UNI. problem solvered!
it was nice seeing u too babe.
xx
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