Sigh

Well, Jo was SUPPOSED to update today, but clearly decided that watching movies was a far more productive use of her time. In the meantime, I am in the midst of finishing off a devil spawn macroeconomics assignment which I am thiiiiiiiiiiiis close to finishing.

We have lots of things to update on from the hijinks we got up to on Sunday when we went shopping. Suffice to say that it was a successful shopping trip, with both myself and Jo coming away with goods - skinny black jeans for me - the Cheap Monday ones from my previous post in fact, (hooray!) and black formal trousers for Jo (double hooray!). Also, many discoveries were made... of the footwear variety. Pictures to come of said fruits of discovery labour.. but I don't want to jinx it. Will post photos tomorrow of what went down, for there were many highlights. Jo will also be coming over to my place tomorrow afternoon, obstensibly to watch Underbelly (we downloaded it; I mean come on, it is ridiculous to wait the however-many-years-it'll-be for the trial to be over for it to be aired in full in Victoria), and also I am going to ambush her with the camera. I swear to god!

Also in not so pleasant news, I was abused on the bus by a woman who may or may not have had Tourettes. Um, now I don't take abuse lying down, even by someone who may have a neuropsychiatric disorder. It was quite bizarre. The woman gets on, saying fuck all the while and when everyone (including me) covertly looks at her with a wtf expression, she tells us all at large to fuck off. O-kay. So I er, gave her a look and she proceeds to call me an Asian bitch for daring to look at her, and for the next ten minutes I am subjected to a hail of "fuck-offs" and "you fucking Asian bitch", and even a threat of "I'll smash your face in". She told me she had Tourettes; frankly I don't think I believe her. And you'd think that if she could control herself enough to tell me that, she could also say "sorry I don't mean everything that comes out of my mouth". Only a small percent of people with Tourettes have the obscene exclaimation variety, most just have tics. And as far as I could tell this woman had no tics. When I got off at my stop on Lygon Street, she said "Oh good, you're getting off" (with a few swear words in there too), I turned around and shot back "Yeah, because I actually go to uni, unlike you. [You unemployable cow.]" This last said in my head. Now perhaps it wasn't my finest hour, but after 10 minutes of this hailstorm of abuse I was on my last nerve. Maybe I'm just not understanding enough, but I'm not an empath and the whole situation was just SO. WEIRD. And I don't tolerate being called an Asian bitch in any situation, unless it's in jest and affection from my friends. End story.

- S