A bit of this, that and some swine

The last two weeks have been well.. different. We went back to uni about a fortnight ago which was good since I was getting a bit restless with all the free time ive had, all the guys came back to the house and it was no longer quiet and dead. I managed to roll my ankle skating right then so i've been keeping off it the past 2 weeks but its come good now and im back in action.

We had a few rowdy nights with everyone back and got everyone round to catch up, wandered into town a couple of times and broke in the new semester. I finally got some work lined up and did some trial days and then finally a full day of work at a small art gallery making picture frames. Its pretty good work since they are really flexible with when im available and its more focused on quality work rather than speed so you can kinda cruise through it as long as your getting everything exact and perfect. Also its only a couple of blocks from my house so I can skate down there in 5 minutes and its between home and uni which makes things even easier. Should be good to keep me busy and paying the bills for a while. Its always interesting to learn how something different works, and since I really have no clue about art and the whole process.

Last weekend Thom, Taz and I got invited back to college to help out with the college ball. The ball is where everyone gets dressed up and they decorate and theme the dining hall, the generally make a whole lot of effort making everything fancy and everyone has a nice sit down catered dinner then party's on with a DJ and stuff. Its kinda tradition to have ex-collegians to come dress up and help out so thats where we came in. Tommy got the genie costume, Taz the one that looked like a terroriest and got fitted out as some sort of Alladin creature. I think the plan was for us to pour jugs of beer and bring out bottles of wine but once we found out that were were actual proper catering staff we ended up drinking more beer than we were pouring and just went and wandered around catching up with everyone from college we hadn't seen in ages. It was an awesome night which ended with us all crashing in a mate's flat which leads me to the next part of the story. Also our 'real' clothes conveniently got locked in a cupboard for which they lost the key so we got to wander around in our awesome costumes until lunch the next day.

A couple days later the boys at 3Edward st weren't feeling too shit hot like we were coming down with something and we found out the boys in the flat we stayed in had just been tested and had swine flu. By now Thom and I had a full on fever and nausea and stuff so we headed down to the emergency department to find out what was going on. They gave us some sexy face masks to wear and decided we were about a 1/10 on the priority list and so we waited about 3 1/2 hours to be seen, possibly the most uncomfortable time ever spent at a hospital. But at least no one wanted to sit next to the two guys wearing face masks coughing their guts up. When we finally were seen we were told they was no cure and that it was just a really, really bad flu and we should stay home and sleep. That was enough for us and so we proceeded to watch the most amount of movies I ever have a 4 day period.

Fortunately were feeling a whole lot better and possibly will even make it into uni later this week, not the most fun week but at least now I can say I lived through swine flu. Oh yea and we also went down to a surprise party for Pat that his girlfriend has organised since he has been living in Australia for one whole year now which was pretty fun, but of a BBQ and Taz dared Hickin $5 to eat a candle, which the poor uni student clearly couldn't refuse. Also in birthday mode our little Korean friend Semi brought the most amazing ice-cream cake ever around for Taz and Tommy's birthday.