drunk

After a turbulent, stressful and very busy week, I spent the entire weekend either drunk, hung-over, or in that state where you feel a bit seedy, but you are starting to get drunk again, so it's ok. Friday night saw Brad, Yoko, Ben, Chris, Adele and myself head out to King of Kings - a crusty little Chinese restaurant on Russell Street. The food is pretty good and really cheap. Crispy skin pork on egg noodles with corn and chicken soup for about $11. We also got stuck into beer and a couple of bottles of wine, before heading off to the Croft Institute. The next thing I knew, I was having random drunk conversations, and enjoying my freedom from university for four weeks.

I woke up the next morning feeling pretty good despite a hangover. One of the best saturday mornings in a long time, I reckon. Had a late lunch, before heading to the Mount View Hotel in Richmond to watch New Zealand v Canada play rugby. It was a pretty boring game to be honest, though Canada played beyond all expectations. I was drinking gin and tonic, trying to convince myself that because it looked like lemonade, that it would somehow fix me right up. And fix me, it did.

By 8pm saturday night, I was with Brad and Hayden, drunk again. We left shortly after and went on somewhat of a bar crawl in Melbourne - visitng that pink rooftop bar above the hostess place Asuka for some random Czech beer, then Loop for a Hoegaarden (they dont sell Hoegaarden anymore!), then to Double Happiness, before finally heading to possibly the worst pub in Melbourne - The Elephant and Wheelbarrow (not my suggestion, I assure you.) We stayed there for a couple of hours, watching some shitty coverband play awful sport/punk music while fat bouncers stopped people drinking on the dancefloor. The place was starting to get to me, though luckily we left, and headed to a Karaoke bar. By that stage it was maybe 3am, and to be honest, I was ready for an open fire, a blankey, and a Police Academy marathon. Getting old, getting old.

Sunday was a lazy day, but Brad and I managed to make it into the studio on Sunday arvo to record some more stuff. I'm happy with how that is coming along, and am looking forward to sharing some of it.

The downside of me being on University holidays is that I am now working full-time for the next month. Good for money I guess, particularly as I need to buy a new laptop, but I havent worked 5 days a week in a while.. The upside though, is that for the next month, I can play video-games completely guilt free. I can go home from work and just watch tv if I want. That is something I havent been able to do for a long time.