In other news, Summer has well and truly wound down. Most of my peeps are back at uni now, the weekdays are less full and were, for a second, becoming a little monotonous. But I saved that. More on that later.
I've been doing some cool stuff lately. Last week my friends Mikael and Liam hosted a now monthly event called Foovies- food and movie/s at their place. They live out in a big house which is connected to a school where Mikael's parents teach international students. Last time we got merry on tequila but I've been having an alcohol-free 30 days, which finishes up on March 13, so I didn't drink at this Foovies but it was equally as fun. This time we got to hang out in the school. We had the whole property to ourselves pretty much, which was completely awesome. It felt like, did you ever love primary school so much and being around your friends at school was so awesome that you sometimes wanted to sleep over at the school with everyone? Well it was like doing that! It was just a maze of different classrooms with desks and whiteboards and linoleum and posters. So strange. So all the boys got really drunk and loud and vomitty and I got three hours sleep. It was fun.
I've attended a few dinner parties with my Eagle girls and made some delicious salad and just generally had a loud, excited time.
A couple weeks ago we had a party to celebrate us signing the lease on our apartment for another year and we had so much fun! Lots of singing and rapping and punch. Lots of punch for everyone. But not this sober sally.
So anyway you guys, I got a srs case of the boredoms during the first week of everyone going back to uni. I found myself completely disposable to everyone; just sitting around working 15 hours waiting for someone to maybe call and ask if I could cover their shift and jumping at the chance just for something to do. So I got sort of active and applied for a job to be an usher at The Arts Centre and asked to volunteer at a cafe/bar/raw art space in the city called 1000 Pound Bend and applied for a copywriting job to do on the side. So I have my first shift at 1000 Pound on Sunday morning and am really excited. I'll be manning the gallery, selling the artwork and generally saying hi to everyone. I'm so excited to meet people and be surrounded by peeps who are stimulated by the same thing I am. On Sunday there are markets on in the art space where people sell vintage goods, clothes, shoes, cheese, photography, lamps, anything. So it should be really fun.
I had a group interview for the usher job yesterday and it was pretty fun meeting people, but it was really hard to tell how well I went. There were about 30 people in the interview and all of the interviewees were really pokerfaced about it all. I know that it didn't go badly at all, but it's just a matter of whether there were lots of other people who are better equipped for the job than I. Fingers crossed!
Last night, I went to the semi final round of Secret Wars, an underground street art battle held between two street artists. They have 90 minutes, one blank panel, black textas and black paint and they let loose on the panels and are judged by two secret judges hidden in the audience and whoever wins advances to the next round. I saw the last round in January, which was a battle between Drewfunk and Braddock and Drewfunk came out on top. He's a Malaysian artist who does a fair bit of street art around Melbourne and works in Blender Studios in the city. But last night he was against an artist called Ken Taylor who is a graphic designer also and has designed a bunch of tour posters for the likes of Bob Dylan and Sonic Youth and Ken Taylor did this rad painting of a vulture waiting to feast and then in this awesome gothic script he wrote 'and the great bird waited to feast on the bones of drewfunk'. It killed. My bottom is seriously sore tonight though from sitting on cement for four hours last night. urg.
I went to the St Kilda esplanade markets tonight with my friends Callum, Katie and Sarah. I know Callum from college in Canberra, actually. We met a
t the aftercast for the play I directed because he was friends with my actors and then we saw each other at college after that a bit. Then at my party, he randomly turned up. He's moved down to Melbourne to go to RMIT and is friends with my friend's sister who lives down here now too. Funny. So we wandered around the markets which was lovely and then had dinner and lots of laughs.
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