My Stalker

I capped off last week with a decidedly boring dinner with Na and Corkie at Na's place in Dulwich Hill. Both of them talk at 100 miles an hour and I'm the only one listening most of the time. At least Na says interesting things - Corkie seems to talk only about herself nowadays. This theory I confirmed on Monday night when we went to Newtown to have dinner with Faun. We had arrange to meet and eat at Green Gourmet, which is a vegan Chinese restaurant (Faun is vegetarian) but Corkie wanted to eat Thai so we ended up at a vego Thai restaurant down the road.

Then the conversation was based around Faun answering Corkie's questions and Corkie talking about herself. When Faun finally got a word in on her own initiative, she asked me how I was doing and what was going on at the Apple and I when I began to reply, Corkie interjected with Apple questions of her own. The nerve! Grr!

This is a thread that dominated the week. On Wednesday she was waiting for me outside the building because she knew when we played soccer. She came and watched us for the duration of her lunch break but had to go before the game ended. I was walking with Dougal at the time and was actually looking forward to talking to him now that Ness has told me a bunch of interesting things about him but of course the conversation had to revolve around her life, which is getting rather repetitive.

Got my hair cut. Not exactly how I wanted it, but still looks pretty funky. Only cost me $22 anyway.

Played poker on Thursday. Corkie wants to play poker and constantly asks about when we play our games but she's not allowed into the office any more because she works for a rival company, so at least this game was pain free. I began well and ended up facing up against Paul in the first game - he eventually bled me out although I got my money back for second place. In the second hand I lost my stack to Ian's call of all-in. I had a full house and he had... four of a kind. Bastard!

Reached 25 153 words for NaNoWriMo. A solid effort.

On Friday we went to the pub as usual. Corkie was waiting downstairs for me/us and she followed us to the Orchard Tavern where Paul, Ben and I started explaining cricket to Dina, who is originally from the US. Corkie wanted to talk to me, I could tell, but I was engaged with the match (Game 2, Day 1 - Australia vs England at the Adelaide Oval) and I prefer talking to people I don't talk to often. Anyway, she was meeting her faux boyfriend Duncan for dinner so she left, leaving me with the likes of Naomi, Michael and Rodney, who are all smokers, I might add. Bummer. Still, we had an interesting conversation until we decided to skedaddle to the safe confines of our respective homes.

Went to sleep at 2:30am after Beq (in the UK) texted me asking advice about how to get rid of a train freak. Then got woken up at 7:30am by Beq and Assumpta (Beq went to visit Assumpta in Guildford) and spoke to them for about an hour then decided it was futile to try and go back to sleep so got up and did all those chores that needed to be done - cleaning the bathroom, doing a load of washing, hunting for my newspaper, taking down the recycling, cleaning the kitchen etc etc. Unfortunately the ironing still sits, untouched, in the corner of my room. Went grocery shopping and then had to have a nap for half an hour becore dressing up to go to Gill's 'LL' party.

Gill's flatmates - Allira and Aracelli - both have double Ls in their names so they were throwing a theme party where everyone had to dress up as LL. I went as Lady Luck in a black outfit and red fishnet stockings, dice accessories and a pair of aces down my bra (ha!) and met another Lady Luck who was elegantly dressed in a long green gown pinned with a four-leaf clover ornament, fanning herself with four aces held together with another four-leaf clover ornament. No one from work was there yet, even though I arrived an hour after the party had officially started so I chatted to Gill's sister Alexis for a while, then we went out the back where there was a DJ playing (he was really good).

Ness arrived soon after but she couldn't drink so started smoking. We started having a conversation about her love for Dougal (Ness is engaged to Russell, a nice but boring guy who didn't want to come to the party) and then... doom. Corkie arrived with her flatmate Tom in tow. Tom is cool. Far cooler than Corkie, anyhow. He was dressed as Leisuresuit Larry and she hadn't bothered to dress up despite the fact that she got so excited about the party that she came, although not a great friend of Gill's nor working with her any more. Anyway, Tom and I like the same kind of music and we started talking about poker, but then Corkie inserted herself into the conversation and it was downhill from there. Shit man, this girl just does not know where to stop.

Then a whole bunch of people from work arrived including Joey (ballerina) and Simon (lazy labourer), Lizzie (lampshade), Naomi (?), Paul (Liverpool lad) and James (lightbulb, light switch) so I had a grand old time living it up with them and dancing to tunes. Eventually I left pretty early with Joey and Simon because I was tired from the early morning wake up call and I knew I had to go to brunch with my parents the next day. Got home at about midnight...

... woken up by my mum on the phone - "How far away are you?" Looked at the time. 10:51am. Was supposed to be at Beecroft station at 11. Oops. Forgot to set my alarm. Realised there was a train in 15 mins. Got dressed and dashed down to the train station and caught the right train. Ended up getting there at noon, which wasn't a bad effort. We went to lunch instead of brunch. My dad didn't come because he had a hangover (!) but mum paid for lunch and then took us 'shopping' for house stuff. Ended up getting a knife, a kilo of cherries and an electric mixer. In a hilarious day out, my sister got the same. She drove back to Canberra and I took my doggie dog for a walk, then my mum loaded me up with kitchenware like a wok, a bunch of baking things like cake tins, a muffin tray, a cooling rack and a set of scales.

Was supposed to go and see The Maladies at the Annandale but got home too late to catch them so have just contented myself with reading the paper and catching up on email tonight. I'll sleep well.