Lounging in office chairs for about half an hour @ Officeworks. Instant mood lifter.Spirit levels: improved. Leukaemia foundation door knock appeal: successful. Worst and most grating excuse out of whole experience: “We already support ALOT of foundations,” says the owner of the nicest house in our street. As if this justifies her not swinging some change that probably lurks underneath her car seat and in coin cups around her house in my collection bag. Whatever, all I can hope for her is that her children never get leukaemia and that she never has to know what is feels like to rely on the generosity of other people. (I just wrote that like I personally know how it feels. I don’t but I can only imagine.)
Other than charming people from my neighbourhood into giving me money, I tagged along with T to get stationary for uni from Officeworks. Did you know that Officeworks is open until 9pm? I certainly didn’t! Oh, the convenience of always knowing you can buy staples and other such irrelevant materials until 9 o’clock at night... But anyway, stationary makes everyone happy, even me, who has no real care for paper and instruments of organisations. (I swear to God, the things people convince themselves that they need. When did stationary get so high tech? What happened to crayolas, pencils and the fanciest thing anyone owning being purple glue sticks?) But, Officeworks turned out to be an oasis for my down in the dumps mood, there were office chairs to lounge on, colour ins to do, pens to test and, the piece de resistance: a free coffee, tea, hot chocolate machine. Which was obviously one of those things that companies put there so that they seem people friendly and convenient, but should you ever actually use it, you get the feeling that you really shouldn’t be. Being young and obnoxious broke and bored, we didn’t care. We got our money’s worth of that hot chocolate and the free colour ins they had at the kiddies table, which we happily sat at for a good forty minutes. I.K gave her colour-in to me with a beautiful message on the back. She's good at annoying me till I smile. "Jack, you'll permanently find your island one day :) have fun on the ship while you can, it won't last fo
rever," was my favourite bit,
A, T, I.K and I then went back to Teagan’s house where we spoke shit, listened to MJ (a permanent fixture in our hangouts since he died that I’m hoping is going to phase out soon), read and facebooked funny people.
Lessons learnt today: 1) Do not underestimate humans. 2) Free hot chocolate tastes better than bought hot chocolate. 3) My friends never cease to amaze me with their uncanny ability to say the right thing and make me forget why I’m sad to begin with 4) That the range of pens in Officeworks is absolutely phenomenal. When did the features of a pen become so important? 5) You can actually miss strangers who became friends within a 6 day time frame.
I am feeling a bit inspired. A friend has an idea brewing and it sounds like a doozy.
Don’t forget to donate to the Leukaemia people should they come to your house!
Love,
Other than charming people from my neighbourhood into giving me money, I tagged along with T to get stationary for uni from Officeworks. Did you know that Officeworks is open until 9pm? I certainly didn’t! Oh, the convenience of always knowing you can buy staples and other such irrelevant materials until 9 o’clock at night... But anyway, stationary makes everyone happy, even me, who has no real care for paper and instruments of organisations. (I swear to God, the things people convince themselves that they need. When did stationary get so high tech? What happened to crayolas, pencils and the fanciest thing anyone owning being purple glue sticks?) But, Officeworks turned out to be an oasis for my down in the dumps mood, there were office chairs to lounge on, colour ins to do, pens to test and, the piece de resistance: a free coffee, tea, hot chocolate machine. Which was obviously one of those things that companies put there so that they seem people friendly and convenient, but should you ever actually use it, you get the feeling that you really shouldn’t be. Being young and obnoxious broke and bored, we didn’t care. We got our money’s worth of that hot chocolate and the free colour ins they had at the kiddies table, which we happily sat at for a good forty minutes. I.K gave her colour-in to me with a beautiful message on the back. She's good at annoying me till I smile. "Jack, you'll permanently find your island one day :) have fun on the ship while you can, it won't last fo
rever," was my favourite bit,A, T, I.K and I then went back to Teagan’s house where we spoke shit, listened to MJ (a permanent fixture in our hangouts since he died that I’m hoping is going to phase out soon), read and facebooked funny people.
Lessons learnt today: 1) Do not underestimate humans. 2) Free hot chocolate tastes better than bought hot chocolate. 3) My friends never cease to amaze me with their uncanny ability to say the right thing and make me forget why I’m sad to begin with 4) That the range of pens in Officeworks is absolutely phenomenal. When did the features of a pen become so important? 5) You can actually miss strangers who became friends within a 6 day time frame.
I am feeling a bit inspired. A friend has an idea brewing and it sounds like a doozy.
Don’t forget to donate to the Leukaemia people should they come to your house!
Love,
Jackie x
PS-The photo is of I.K and I in the Valley one night with a middel aged man wearing a wig, heels, tights and toting a hot pink clutch. This photo does not relate to this entry at all..except that it was a small window of oppurtunity to display this photo yet again. I still cannot get my head around this.
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