CHRISTIANE - SALLY - PETA - PETAL
7.4.02
Last night emerged as a pretty good night out, despite the fact that none of my friends wanted, or turned up out at the pub with me. Sure there were people I knew, but none of the people who I had called to come out with me. But I, as per usual, didn't let that get me too down. I put in a good night dancing again. As I always try to do.
Ended up at the Globe, was a pretty good night I think. Except for the fact that the first person I saw when I walked into the pub was Petal. Not that I have anything against her, it is just that I am not really attracted to her, but she doesn't yet know this. And the fact she was already drunk at this was only at about 11pm. I successfully avoided her for most of the night until Jinky got sick and had to go home. I walked her out to her friends car and ran into Petal again, this time she was even more smashed and barely standing up straight. Not a good look at the best of times, but this was not by any stretch of the imagination a pretty sight. I got outta there as fast as I could before she decided to act on her now very out in the open feelings about me. I so have to set her straight on that next time I see her, but hopefully before she is drunk so she comprehends.
The rest of my night was great. Had fun dancing again, always do. I find the music such a release from everything that is confronting me in my 'non-musical' aspects of my life. Music I see as a form of expression, and dance as an extenuation of that. Well there you go, I do express myself. Just not in easily communicable forms.
I saw Peta again last night, it had been about three weeks maybe that I hadn't seen her. Yeah I saw her the week after my birthday but not again since. I really miss her sometimes, she is just a ratbag, gotta love her openness and approachability. That open personality is something I aspire to. Yeah and the fact she hugs everyone all the time, and I miss the human contact of the embrace. I have so much to thank her for. For bringing me out into the open, for introducing me to a great group of people I see regularly at the pub Saturday nights, for being her, and for letting me be myself without judging me on anything that is generally classifiable as a label. So Peta, Thanks a heap! [and thanks for your phone number]
Before I saw Peta again, I was dancing at one side of the dance floor, just off to the side and ended up dancing with Sally. Well her name came to me later.....not in a premonition or anything like that ..... she introduced herself. She was really going off. I like to see other people enjoy the music as much as I do, and I definitely think she was enjoying it. Every minute of it. She was nuts, but having a blast. And extremely nice too. On the eyes, ears and the all important organ [get your mind out of the gutter, that is my job] the brain. Great conversationalist, well as good as your can get in an extremely loud pub. General Description : 5'4" tall, Longer than shoulder length black/brown hair, tight black pants, cfm boots, and wearing one of those white harem tops [Off the shoulder, kinda gathered and elasticised around the sleeve cuffs, and bust] that remind me of pirates and 'maidens in distress' . Thought Sally is definitely one of those girls that can look after herself in any situation. She handles herself very well, and handles me that same way. but hey, who am I to complain? So we ended up dancing together for about 2 hours or so, between trips to the bar.
Oh yeah, on my way out of the pub just before close, during the final song, I ended up running into, not literally, but spying across the room and went over to Christiane. Man, it had been so long since I had spoken to her. She moved to Melbourne about 5 months ago, and I hadn't spoken to her much before that, since really about the time she deferred her uni course [Same course as me] to get a job and some work experience, but that scary thing is that absolutely nothing worth mentioning has happened in the past five months. Sure I turned 21 but yay! nothing earth shatteringly interesting. So I think I will just have to do something drastic in the next 5 months so there is something to share the next time I see someone I hadn't seen in ages.
