day of weird

Today I had an extremely eventful day.

I only had one hour to spend at uni, which was mentoring, so I wasn't really going to go, except for the fact that I was to meet Vaish so I might as well make the trek to the city.

Took the m54 to Parra, and went and got a blood test. Here's hoping that I either have antibodies for Hep B or I have cell-mediated immunity, cos goddamn that's gonna get annoying if I don't have any immunity. Well that's one thing today that went according to plan.

So at Parra station I saw Fiona and induced tachycardia, vasoconstriction and bronchodilation by tapping her on the shoulder. Cos it scared her bahaha. Anyways we go on the train, which went Parra-Strathfield-Central, which we'd never seen before, cos we've never seen a train skip Redfern but not Strathfield.

On the train we were reading over something although without much enthusiasm. Then the train says "We have been delayed 3 minutes because we got moved onto the suburban line". Which, okay, is fair enough. Then just before pulling into Strathfield it declares that it's gonna be 5 mins late cos suburban line is slow etc.

Then after Strathfield we hear that the train has to pause because of a fatality down the line. This is almost becoming common by now - since uni started I think I've seen this once before, and I saw this once on a train trip back from a Cadets biv. So we wait for the signal that they've cleared it up ahead so that we can move.

Okay so later the guard reveals the crucial piece of information that it was our train that was involved in the fatality. So we hang on the train for like 1h30mins while the police and Cityrail officials did some snooping around.

During this time I managed to go through the neuroanatomy prac with Fiona (cos I'd done it and she had it later in the day). I also managed to weave her adrenalin rush at Parra station into the sympathetic nervous system ahahaha. The lamest thing was how the guard always told us we were being delayed, but not any time frame. So we could constantly make the excuse "oh we'll have to evacuate in a few minutes anyway. Why bother studying."

So after a long wait we pulled up into Croydon station. So by this time I had like 20 minutes to get to UNSW, which was definitely not enough. So I missed mentoring. At this point Vaish told me we should postpone the date, and so I made my way to the city just so I could go back home again :P

So I thought about whether I could do something in the city by myself so I felt like I didn't waste my trip, but nothing came to mind. The CBD is an astoundingly boring place :L.

Went back to Parra, ate at the Nandos. Ordered a paella, which was pretty good! Decided I wanted a frozen coke afterwards, so I went to level 5 to Hungry Jacks. To find out their machine is still in the process of freezing the next batch. So that was a waste of energy.

Went to the lift. It was a lift that went level 1, 2, and 4. So I was on level 4. Then the lift came and doors opened. Some lady was inside with a pram so like good citizens myself and the other guy waiting stood at the sides to allow her to come out. Then I shit you not, she pauses halfway, pulls her pram back in, and says "Oh, you mean level 7?" to her friend, and fucking hits the "close door" button. On so many levels, that is fucked up. I'm not sure there even is a level 7 in Parra Westfield. Secondly, even if there was a level 7, the lift doesn't even go there. Thirdly, she just fucking closed the door! The other guy waiting and I exchanged this mutual look of "what the absolute fuck just happened". Anyway eventually we did get on the lift and that was okay, especially since the lady seemed to have found her level 7 and was no longer present in the lift.

I missed the m54 by like 20 seconds though so yippee. I met a 2011 Ruse grad at the bus stop and chatted. Then a blind dude sat between us, and accidentally interrupted us when we were talking about which bus we were taking. Anyway after a while the Ruse guy left, and I chatted a bit to the blind guy, found out his name was Tim. He was catching the 609 and so I was watching out for him.

I saw an m54 (my bus) come, and so I tried to explain to a lady nearby to help him look for the 609. Then the bloody 609 came and I told her wait nevermind, his bus is here. Then I told Tim that the 609 was here. He thanks me. The lady kept asking me what bus she was meant to look out for cos in my rush I didn't properly explain that he already knows. Then I missed the m54 bahaha.

But it's okay cos NSW transport is doing its own shit and sent another m54 like 2 minutes later.

Got home, enjoyed a Cuba Libre. Figured I deserved a drink after such a weird ass day.

tl;dr
Train killed someone
Was too late for mentoring
Vaish bailed on me :(
Was shocked by rudeness at lift
Helped a blind guy and missed my own bus
Now enjoying a rum n coke, which btw is superior to whiskey and coke