dirrrrty pop (but not dcp, they dont have that here)

alright so. this past week has a been a WHIRLWIND of craziness and now here i am doing my best to procrastinate going on a run. actually, i don't know why i am procrastinating, i have a big craving to run but i am kind of worried about my knee. but i have a marathon to run in just over 2 months and i feel like it's a big deal that i at least try to get back into the running shape i was in pre-australia.

true story, i never joined the gym. f that. i've always been a big supporter of using my own body weight for strength training, and i hate running on treadmills (read: i am a cheap poor college student). so, i saved 5$ for the two week deal and i promptly went out and spent it on timtams. i mean, i have to walk 3 blocks just to get to the safeway (that's 6 blocks both ways, for all you non-math major types). 6 blocks walking to buy timtams is practically a marathon, especially that 3 block walk there where you are just filled with yearning for the chocolately fudgey biscuity goodness. i am working up a sweat just thinking about that. whereas the ab-ductor machine does nothing for me.

but i digress! (shout to the p-ryor, whoot whoot)

so it's friday now. sunday all the mary's kids moved back in and 1) they are super de duper friendly and 2) majority of them are supremely awesome. so there was a minipub crawl on sunday night and then monday night we had bucks and hens nights back-to-school style. i had no idea what that meant until i got here, but it's when guys go on one pub crawl and girls go on another and then you meet up at the end. everyone wore their old school uniforms (i got mine from an op-shop (thriftstore)) and we walked around melbourne reeking of style. no kidding. it was a LOT of fun. and i got to meet a lot of the girls who are all really really nice and really fantastic people overall. so we went to a bunch of different pubs whose names i don't remember and it's not really important anyway, but then we finally met up at the clyde and apparently newman was on a barcrawl too that night. fyi - mary's and newman are rivals (take that team awesome) and a fight broke out (but i use the term fight very loosely - maybe a minor SKIRMISH (that's shout out #2 to the pryorizzle, for those of you keeping track)). afterwards we made our way to the turf club by rmit village which was PACKED but a good time. i got into bed but remembered that yes, i did actually have uni the next day, at 11. so my shortlived vacation time at melbourne was finally coming to an end. sigh.

so uni! uni was good.. it was actually nice going to class again and my subjects are pretty interesting, so i don't mind going. plus, my earliest subject is 10am on wednesdays so it's not bad at all. tuesday night then was..oh, dinner with the senior students. that was okay. afterwards i just went back to newman and hung out with team awesome who has been disappointingly awol as of late. wednesday was more uni! and then christmas in july which was a formal dinner complete with our harry potter-esque academic gowns. dinner was a lot of fun - it was decorated really pretty, and everyone looked nice, but basically it was all you can drink free wine, which was fantastic. i wasn't going to drink and then i was like, stupid alycia, it's free, take advantage. so i did. and it was good. after dinner we made our way to p.a.'s (dirty p.a.'s?) where i was denied entry because the bouncer wouldn't take my student id, so i went back and got my illinois drivers license which the idiot would have no idea was counterfeit or not. um, hello, sir, clearly i am 18. so i eventually got in and woo!! it was a lot lot lot of fun! the wine might've had something to do with that. mmmm, wine.

thursday was yesterday..went to uni... missed dinner because of my sport class (um, hello, most blow off class in the WORLD) and instead i gorged myself on nutrigrain (don't have it in the states, its pretty much the best cereal known to mankind) and then afterwards was trivia night which was hella lame. not a lot of desire to go out last night (i'm on the every-other-day mode) so i stayed in and talked with some people here then met up with kristen and andrew and did the same thing.

so today, no uni! me and kristen just got back from the market where i picked up some pretty fantastic goodies. tonight is the dirty 80s turn which i am super excited for - i have a fantastically horrible oversize gold HUGE SHOULDERPADS jacket and some leggings, should be a good time. so i'm gonna peace out now: the agenda: run, shower, buy books, go to supermarket and buy timtams, possibly netball/city, dinner, 80s turn. arlhglahelr okay running time! go me!