Swimming in Balloons

I know you've all been waiting to hear about the update on the prank war. Jason has finally struck back, and I must admit he did very well. I got back from class today and it became apparent that something had been done to my room. Jes and Jason implied that it was subtle and would take some time to figure out. They lied, my room is now filled with balloons, everywhere. I can't open anything without ballons flying in, I can barely open my door.



Bastards. I have to admit though that its very well done. In theory Jes wasn't involved, but my door was actually locked so an all access card was needed. Plus she blew up half the balloons. Apparently Kim was the mastermind behind the plot. Jason and I did decide that we needed to combine our forces and involve someone else. Maybe Jes. Maybe Lexie, i think she'd like to be involved. Everyone who knows about the prank wants to go swimming in my room. So far I've fended them off.
I've been beaten down, but I'm not yet defeated. More pranks will happen, but this will be hard to top

Not a Wasted Night

Yesterday was a bit of a rough day. It started around 7:30 when i got up and ended my short story draft. i had to go print a ton of copies and then hand it in during class. I did that, gulp. We'll see how it goes. I read some other peoples at some point and meh, mine was more story than two of the four, but that doesn't necessarily mean its better. Anyway I also had a bunch of history to do and did that. It was not very eventful and i was pretty tired from getting up early. Then we had rugby practice which i was pretty keen for. it didn't go great, i wasn't getting the tackles i should have and I just felt a little bit off. Got back to Fisher and took a shower, then started making dinner (pepperz was closed). i borrowed a pot and a spoon from Jes and started making pasta. Ziggy, Jes, and Jason were all down there cooking already, and Ziggy was using two stoves so they were hot and ready to go. I put my pot on one when he finished, but he left both on because he didn't know which knob went with which heating pad. At one point i was waiting for the pasta to cook and put down the spoon...on the other really hot plate and now there is a nice black mark on it. it did not catch on fire like last time...my bad.
So we all ate and were happy, and then headed back up to C floor to put away our supplies. I was planning to go and study after, or at least pretend to. Jes realized she left a pan down in the kitchen (on A floor). Jason and I sat down in the hallway. We stayed there until around 12:30, around 3 hours. Firstly, it was really comfortable, secondly it was a very social thing. Jes came back and joined us and James was walking to his room and stopped to chat. He was also summoned to fetch a flip flop. Then we wondered if Tom was around, we were right in front of his door. So i kicked it a couple times and he answered. He came out in the bathrobe he used for the Alphabet party. It was scandalous. After a few minutes he went to take a shower. Jes soon followed suit, but was very reluctant to go because she is quite paranoid. She thinks anytime she leaves Jason and I will start doing something fun and cool. She threatened to steal something from our rooms if we did. She left and we stole a sign from Tom's door and turned it into a (really crappy) paper crane and a paper airplane. Smithy arrived a little after this, after working at Pepperz until 10:30 (much later than he should but staffing sucked that night) and also sat down with us. Tom came out of the shower and saw his door, sighed. He sat down too. This meant that Jes got to parade by four guys in only her towel. She was pleased. She was even less pleased by the fact she wasn't involved in the crane making and now has declared she will steal things. Smithy left after maybe an hour, and Tom put some clothes on, but came back out. He eventually got so delirious and out of it he just started staring into space and at his door. Jes gave up on us and left. And then Will, one of the guys who works at admin, who had stopped by earlier and laughed at us before going to take care of a noise complaint on d floor, stopped by again and told us someone had complained about us. so that broke up the party and we all went to bed...at around 12:30. An incredibly fun night, yay delirium

More on Pranks

One thing that any Fisher residence would know is that leaving laptops in the common room is a bad idea. I do this all the time, but usually return quickly enough to divert any disaster. Getting food last week I was no way near quick enough. Only one small thing was done: now i have timeline. Choppa is evil. On a similar topic, Kim left her laptop in the common room with me and Jason. She warned us there was a password so we shouldn't bother. We bothered and found she did have a password. I tried Sweden (she's swedish) with no luck. The password hint was in Swedish. I tried password: bingo. We got on changed her desktop, and wrote a nice status on facebook explaining how kind and sweet Jason and I were. We also told everyone her password. So in case your wondering, I am now officially an expert hacker
Now, as to the war. The second shot was fired last week with my mattress and sleeping bag being used to barricade my door. My planned revenge has been spoiled some, as Jes cannot keep a secret. I will still probably follow through with it though. It involves aluminum foil and maybe zip ties. Another note on pranks is that there was a small war with Jes over the visitor guide to Mona. We each tried to dump in on the other, it was eventually taped to doors, and finally she taped it to the inside of my door, which we agreed was victory. I really need to start locking my door...not that it would matter with an all access card

MONA

In an effort to culture the barbaric American, Jason and Jes brought me to Mona. The Museum of Old and New Art. As some of you may know, i'm not really the biggest art fan. I haven't really taken advantage of MOMA or the Met even though I live in new york. I'm more of the Museum of Natural History type of person. So we head out saturday around noon, which gave me a good excuse not to drink very much on friday night at the ICC (inter college cocktail). We invited Kim too, but she was not that functional post party. Got on a boat to get there, and resisted the urge to sing i'm on a boat. Get to the museum and have to walk up stairs. jason's knee is dislocated so that took a while. We still overtook some people though. Then we got to the actual museum part and they gave us ipods where we could read about and rate the art. Some of it was pretty cool, you held two bars and a light bulb started beating in time with your heart. mine was very slow. There was also this falling water that would spell out words. Then there was the red curtained rated r part. that stuff was weird and I will not deign to write about it. a family with a toddler behind us on the stairs said lets start at the bottom, where the red curtain stuff was. we did not warn them...the mummy was cool as were some of the other things, but overall it was art. shrug. fun time though because i was with fun people. the most memorable moment was when we were outside waiting for our bus. we were lying on bean bags and a cat walked by. Jes immediately got up and sprinted to catch it. The scene became even funnier because an 8 month old had the same reaction at the same time. Jes was faster. Later on the cat was walking by us again and jes sprang up to get it. it had the look of "oh god not again" and turned to walk away. too slow. the cat was dubbed Apple Sponge. Don't ask me why. So an interesting day, with animals. passover ended in time for dinner, so yay pizza

This Means War

Wednesday morning I was sleeping peacefully around 9 am when a pounding sounded on my door. Knowing the answer, I asked who it was. Jes having just gotten back and being bored. She wanted to do something so I suggested trashing Jason's room. As an explanation, when I returned from Orford a little while ago I found my room in a sticky situation due to Jason taping it. He got back late yesterday and found his in a similar state. Granted it wasn't done as well, he had masking tape while I (with the aid of a bored Jes) used bad imitation duck tape. Now both parties have attacked the other, and war is official. I woke up this morning to find all the shoes I left outside my room tied together and hanging from a door handle and a facebook message asking me if I planned to go running anytime soon.
As a side note Jes is involved by having let both of us into each other's room with her all access card. I also stacked a bunch of boxes in front of her door yesterday, so I expect she will soon be involved in the madness. Jason is also currently in a knee brace (dislocated it wrestling a crocodile while riding his pet kangaroo)

To Superbarrel and Beyond!

I hope the Toy Story reference was not in vain. I decided it was about time to update both of my readers on Tasmanian life. Not too much that anyone would call exciting has happened, but I'll tell you all about it anyway. Wednesday was the last day of school before Easter break and there was what was called the "Superbarrel." A barrel is a party hosted by a society (med, engi, geo, etc) and five societies banded together to make a seven hour party and according to facebook over 1000 people were all set to come. It was from 3-10, and most people were going around 4, started pregaming around 3, 3:30. I had class at 4, a tutorial so I really couldn't miss it. I went back up to Fisher for dinner, and was slowly convincing Jes and Jason to go with me for the last few hours of it when people started to come back up from it. (it was around 7, 7:30 at this point) They all had similar stories about how it kinda sucked. Shockingly we didn't go for the last couple hours of it. Instead we watched a movie while the partiers went to Metz (last time i went to metz ended with the hangover of the century). It was called Charlie and Boots, an Australian movie, pretty entertaining. Tom stopped by for a while. By this I mean he came back from the barrel and passed out on the couch, beer still in his hand. Gav moved it before it spilled. We had a whole crew watching at first, but by the end it was down to four people, Jes and Jason cuddling on a couch, me on another, and kurt sitting at the table a little awkwardly. Jes was asleep so we left her on the couch for a while. Bored, we also watched the Castle

another Australian movie which was pretty funny. This was interrupted when Saras offered us hot chocolate. We went and played pool to pass the time. Nobody won, including jes who played on both teams.
The reason we were all still up is that Jason had to leave to catch a plane at five, so we decided to stay up with him. We sat outside pepperz because it was nice out and chased possums. We also got to see drunk people struggling back in, fun times. Crashed around 4:15