"So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact, a woman."

The university holidays were spent in varying degrees of undress in several different places, which is why there hasn't been a lot of posts.

L and A both went holidaying up north to various beaches. After a semester of 4-hour exams, too much alcohol and too much work they just wanted a break. Lazy days spent on the beach, tanning in the sun and a couple of ice-cold beers. But not the crazy parting antics we've come to expect from them. They just needed a break. L is still seeing her former secret admirer but isn't ready to fully commit and she needed a break from him too.

H had a wild trip to the US with her older brother who is moving to LA to pursue an acting career. She thought she'd help him settle in. In the end she made a few friends, went to a hell of a lot of parties and did a lot of drugs. She was close to getting arrested several times for lots of different reasons but always managed to get someone to getaway drive her. That's H. Always making friends the world over. And yet, she still couldn't convince anyone to give her band a recording contract. That could be because said band doesn't ave a name yet or any original songs. Give it time. Now she's back home and looking for a new place to live, naturally. She's also decided to go back to university this semester and study media. Just for a change.

J isn't going back to uni deciding to get a new job in a bar. It's the best place for her really, since she spend all of her time in bars anyway. But she's going to have to find a bar with her kind of people, like her current job in retail. As in co-workers who are comfortable with the fact that she drinks four energy drinks, talks about sex non-stop and is probably going to make-out with them at some point. Her mate and colleague S, has recently returned from his trip to Asia. She was looking forward to partying with him while the fab four were out of town but he doesn't appear that eager to talk to her. He's been ignoring her calls and texts. He visited the store to chat to Bossman, but not J. Bossman then lied to J about seeing S. She found out from P. J isn't too happy, but suspects S is pissed off at her because she's slept with two of his friends but refused to have sex with him. It's all a major double standard since he calls J a slut for her bed-hopping antics but he just laughs at the fact that Bossman has also slept with some of his friends. S, being a private school boy, has always been a bit pretentious and not as open-minded as most of our other friends. But he is still J's friend and it's unfair to be pissed off at her for the same reasons they get along so well in the first place. Either way it has forced J to hang out much more than she would like with B and K. B hasn't been too annoying for her and has only mentioned R once since he's return from New Zealand. He's living on his own since T is overseas. K on the other hand is still as insane as ever. She's talking about moving back in with her parents because she misses having close family and has a new loser boyfriend who is 8 years older than her and rumour-has-it is engaged to someone else. She constantly bails on plans with J to sit at home and study even though it's holidays. Whenever she does go out she gets ridiculously drunk and starts screaming at or attempting to fight bartenders/bouncers/taxi drivers/randoms. She's also always copying J to seem more 'cool' such as only liking bands/movies J likes even though we've known her for ages and know better. She's even 'switched' football teams! Of course J hasn't been able to talk about it with B because B gets all defensive. M and E are on holiday to the snow (though not together), and none of J's other good friends know K well enough to sympathise properly. Well, the fab four are back now and it's time to get a little crazy.

What we're doing this month...

Loving: between semester uni holidays and Masterchef Australia
Listening to: Gyroscope and The Soft Pack
Crushing on: Bradley Cooper
Worshipping: anyone who ever appeared on The Chaser's War on Everything (but especially Chas)
Eating: pancakes
Drinking: ridiculous amounts of coffee
Rocking: Scarfs in every colour and fabric
Reading: we're taking a break from the books
Failing: to save enough money to holiday somewhere sunny

"But it seemed like such a good idea at the time, such a very very good idea at the time"

It's been awhile since the last post. Sorry about that, exams have been a little crazy. As well as everything else.

J took the week off work to study but ended up partying unsurprisingly. Surprisingly her exams were easy and she's fairly sure she's earned herself a semester of great marks. After sex with Justin turned out to be just plain bad J decided to dump him. Actually, she just decided to ignore all of his incoming calls, texts emails etc (technology really has allowed too many ways people can contact those that don't want to be contacted) since, in her opinion, there was no relationship and could therefore be no actual break-up. She's been clubbing with B and K alot since B isn't sitting her exams and K finished early. They arent exactly the most fun clubbing partners lately since all B does is whine how she needs a guy and hasn't had sex since she was with R and blah blah blah. K, though still insane, is more bitchy than fun and has been ignoring J constantly. J deals with their annoying attitudes by picking up some random guy and going home with him. Or to the local semi-private park. Or just remaining in the car whatever. B and K go home early. It's a mystery why they are still desperate to go out with J. Oh well, they're just another group of people to go partying with. And at least they understand that when J partys she partys hard. After seeing the shocked reactions on the faces of her Spanish class friends to her drinking and sleeping around attitude J decided she wouldn't be going clubbing with them anymore. She has enough problems, like the guy she thought was a one-night-stand who has been texting her at least once a day inviting her to movies/the snow/dinner etc. J tried the 'it's exams I'm studying' excuse but that's starting to wear a little thin with exams drawing to a close. The whole experience has left J wondering: whatever happened to casual sex?

A was MIA for several weeks, which you may remember if you read this blog on a regular basis. No one was quite sure where she was. One theory was that she'd locked herself up studying but that turned out to be untrue. In fact, A was 'shacking up' just not with Gaga. A's manager at work has always been a bit of a matchmaker and has been trying to set A up with one of her co-workers for ages. Though the pair of them are friends and get along well they had no interest of actually dating. For one thing, A doesn't date. And you don't sleep casually with people you work with because then you have to see them everyday and it becomes awkward. However, while joking around (they have always spent a lot of time pretending to be a couple just to amuse their manager and everyone else they work with) at another co-worker's birthday party they found themselves making out and realising that hey, they want to sleep with each other after all. It didn't help that they were both off the rails drunk. Still the next morning they woke up and went off to work together and surprisingly it was completely comfortable. A ended up in his bed that night as well. And so it went, until A had practically forgotton her friends for a week of non-stop sex. Of course as soon as she realised what she was doing A freaked out (total commitment-phobic she), took two weeks off work and returned to her usual life without responding to any attempts to contact her. Kinda bitchy, but typical A. Since then she's been on booze binges with everyone else and refuses to discuse work or Gaga.

H and Miss Priss are fighting more than ever due to H playing and practicing loud music to all hours of the morning. She's starting to look for a new place. Again. She also has a new job at a casino, though it has turned out to be less fun (and less safe) than working at a sex shop, ahem adult's store. Her first night a guy outside tried to mug her, desperate for gambling money. She also doesn't like any of the people she works with, especially not the creepy Indian guy who keeps hitting on despite her clearly staing she was uninterested several hundred times. She now spends most of her shift trying to stay away from him.

Every time she goes to volunteer L parks her car in the same spot. It's convenient and always seems to be available. Well, last time she went she returned to see someone had tucked a red rose under the windscreen wiper of her car. She was shocked while we all discussed who her secret admirer might be. Most of the people L volunteers with are a little strange. Perfectly nice, and some even good looking but all not quite normal. Of course no one is really normal (expecially not us) but one of the guys there collects old used mobile phones (apparently he has a whole room at home to show off his collection) and another has a weird skin condition which he refuses to see a doctor about because he thinks it looks cool. L was getting paranoid about going back but a committment is a committment and she had to return the next week. She'd almost forgotten about it when she was going back to her car to go home when she saw a really cute guy standing by her car. Apparently he works in the coffee shop next store and has been watching her for weeks. L wasn't sure whether to be happy or freaked out. She took the safe option and invited him out for drinks with J, H, P and E. Turns out the guy is very sweet, has an excellent sense of humour and likes awesome bands like Rage Against the Machine, The Strokes and The Ramones. So are he and L dating? L isn't sure she has time for a relationship, and it's a little soon to tell, but the important thing is she's having a little fun.

B has all but given up on university and refuses to sit her exams although she's planning to go back next semester and not transferring/deferring/dropping out like a normal person who hates their course. With R in New Zealand she has been becoming more and more obsessed with male attention. Rather than actually flirting though or doing anything vaguely productive B hangs out in the corner looking around and the room and announcing who she thinks is hot or not. J suggests she makes a move. B doesn't. It's getting more than a little irriating. B whines constantly about wanting sex/a relationship/men in general but isn't willing to do anything to go after she wants. Maybe she's hoping she'll get a secret admirer from a coffee shop. That sort of thing only happens to L. And besides B doesn't volunteer or have a job (or leave the house much really) so where is her mystery guy actually going to see her? Poor B, she really is lacking confidence lately.

All K does is work, although since she's paying all or her and B's rent, she probably has to. Still, the fab four hardly ever see K anymore. She hasn't been happy with H in a long time, and every time she sees A lately they get in a fight about something. To be fair K and A haven't really gotten along since A threatened end-of-the-train-line, K's ex. Even though it wasn't just A, for whatever reason (probably because she, along with H, are the most violent and threatening) K blamed her more than anyone else. She hangs out with J and L occasionally as well as her sister obviously. L saw a movie with her last week but it was quite awkward and K and J have been arguing because K doesn't believe J should have ditched Justin. Oh well. K is so busy with actual study and work she has no time to catch up. Considering that you'd think she'd be getting better marks and have more saved money than the fab four. Oddly, not so.

"I'm just a little tense. This whole office is not Feng Shui. All the desks are facing evil."

So since it's the heart of exam week (or swot-vac depending on what uni you go to) everyone is picking up extra shifts at work and spending midnight buried under piles of heavy textbooks. This is not the life.

Fortunatelty there's been at least a few distractions.

H and her band still haven't got past the playing-in-the-garage stage yet, but considering they just got together this isn't exactly a surprise. They're starting with old Green Day covers (Basket Case) but H has big plans. They still don't have a name though...Luckily for Miss Priss band practice isn't taking place in her house but in one of the band members who actually has a house and not a flat. H is still driving Miss Priss mad by playing drums/guitar in her room though. Miss Priss as well as not liking mess hates noise. But then, the two usually go hand in hand don't they?

J, never one for much study, has decided to go partying with B, who's given up hope of passing any of her subjects this semester and isn't even going to bother attending her exams. Guess that means K and B are now hanging out with the fab four again...well, B anyway. K, who is obsessed with getting good marks for the first time in her life, has spent the past...well, semester actually, studying frantically.

J doesn't really remember the weekend. B doesn't either. Something to do with the homemade grapa they were downing no doubt. J woke up in her own bed the next morning amazingly. However she was covered in blood with no signs of a cut (so the blood probably wasn't hers) had a yellow complexion and found her bag outside in the garden. Completely empty save for her ID and a 5o dollar note. Gone was her lip gloss, phone, cigarettes and the bottle she keeps her tequila in that she sneaks into clubs. She has no idea how she got home. At least she got home, which is more than can be said for B. B woke up in a stranger's house, sleeping on a kitchen floor. The house belonged to some 30-year-old chick who woke B up around 2pm when she was screaming at the football on TV. B ran for her life.

No one has seen A for awhile and we're getting a little concerned. At first everyone thought she was shacking up with Gaga, but J ran into him at Justin's house the other day (she left her ipod there and had to go pick it up...she didn't stay long) and he said he hadn't seen her in about 2 weeks. How bizzare. Is it possible A is holed up at home studying? That doesn't seem like her. And if not then what on earth is she doing?

L is getting a bit of cabin fever from studying too hard, but she's determined to ace her exams as usual. She's started a study group with a bunch of political nerds who are obsessed with the movie Dirty Dancing. She thought they'd be studying but all they want to do is act out certain scenes from the movie. Who was it that told L study groups were a great idea?

What we're doing this month...

Loving: the occasional sunny/warm day
Listening to: The Ramones, Rage Against the Machine, Guns N Roses, The Rolling Stones. Classic shit.
Crushing on: 'Guy' from Never Been Kissed. Didn't notice him the first time we saw that movie...or Drew Barrymore's creepy smile
Worshipping: John Frusciante
Eating: chinese noodles
Drinking: chai lattes
Rocking: leggings and loose t-shirts while we sit at home studying
Reading: Scar Tissue, Anthony Kiedis
Failing:our final exams

"Scar tissue that I wish you saw, sarcastic mister know-it-all"

Today a whole bunch of us met up for coffee and chocolate-cheesecake brownies (two of the best things on this planet) and to apply for compensation metcards because the public transport system in this city SUCKS and they're supposed to give monthly ticket holders compensation tickets if they don't meet cancellation/delay targets. Well, it's that bloody hard to find out if those targets were met and where on earth the compensation form is located online that we soon gave up. Not to mention they give you only 6 weeks (or a month for certain ticket holders) to apply for said compensation so you can't do multiple months at once. Even connex gave you 2 months. Fuck you metro!

Okay now that that rant's over with (and if anyone does have the link for the metro compensation form an email to frenchtoastandfailure@gmail.com would be greatly appreciated)...

Last night J ignored texts and calls from B and K to go clubbing with Bossman. They went to several bars and a punk rock club and were having a lot of fun. There was probably a bit more flirting involved than should have been, but they didn't hook up so all's well that ends well. It would have been an excellent night, except that at 2am Bossman's girlfriend started calling him and demanding to know where he was. To get her off his case he invited her out, not really thinking she would because she'd be tucked up in bed. Well, she did come out and put out the fun too. J immediatly startied feeling like a third wheel and didn't like the girlfriend at all. She was one of those girls that bursts into tears at the first sign of not getting what she wants which is always irritating. She threw a fit (complete with a lot of fake coughing) because J wanted to smoke and started yelling at Bossman for hitting on other girls (he wasn't), including J. She was also trying to get rid of J and convince Bossman to go home. What a charmer really. No wonder she has so few friends other than Bossman. Eventually J got sick of it and ditched them for a bunch of guys drugged out of their minds on ice. She enjoyed the rest of the night with them, and ended up sharing a hotel room with two of them before ehading off to work at 8 the next morning.

H has started a rock band with a few friends from her new job at a sex shop. She actually quite likes it, despite the sometimes questionable customers who like to mastubate on things. Still, her co-workers are pretty cool and the pay is good so there aren't that many complaints. Plus, they don't care about her nose ring at all. Anyway H has played bass and guitar for years and has recently started playing the drums. She's teamed up with two guys from work and are convinced they're going to be the next Red Hot Chilli Peppers, except that none of them can actually sing. She's dedicated the next week to finding a singer, since she won't be working at her other job anymore. H has always been involved in the local music scene as her older brothers are in a band and her parents have been involved in the industry too. She drinks with a lot of Australian rock stars but this is her first go and becoming one herself.

L is freaking out about upcoming exams and has holed herself up at home in a frantic attempt to learn everything she is already supposed to know. Isn't the always the case? Still, she's had time to go on a few drinking adventures with various uni/work/mutual friends and play endless card games which usually involve all the clothes coming off and someone getting out the garden hose...

Meanwhile we are all obsessing with the facebook group 'Facebook Relationship Status Options Are Insufficient'. Pure gold!

"And I, leave behind, this hurricane of fucking lies"

Last weekend was spent in a drunken daze (as per usual) but for once it actually had a purpose: with the winter arriving and sudden rain and temperatures below 15 C tights just don't cut it anymore. Only with a bit of absinthe or good quality rum running through your veins can you ignore the chills. There was a lot of dancing to nineties classics (blink 182, the spice girls & and those thrashy boy bands) and a lot of cigarettes (cue J managing to light her bag on fire, albiet breifly, she really shouldn't have her lighter anywhere near anything vaguely fammable). There was no Justin, Gaga, B or K. No Justin because he and J aren't having sex and she's all but given up on him. No Gaga because A doesn't do actual relationships, and never brings her boys out to introduce them to friends because that's just not her style. She likes to keep her secrets. No B or K because they weren't talking to everyone.

However now, with their family overseas (T is off to China), R still in new Zealand (let's hope he never returns) and K's recent break-up with the uni-boyfriend (the term 'boyfriend' being applied very loosely) they seem to want the fab four (that is J, A, H and L naturally) back in their lives. Well, sort of. K has been ignoring both A and L's attempts to contact her on facebook. Perhaps not so odd with A since A never puts up with K's over-drama and antics and they don't get along that well, but K and sweet L have always gotten along. It's almost impossible to fight with L, she's so good-natured. And it's no surprise that H hasn't had contact with the twins, especially K. H and K have never been exactly close, possibly due to their irreconciable differences and possibly because of H's friendship with K's ex E.

Anyway the fab four had all but given up hope of ever speaking to them again (okay, not realistically, it had only been 2 weeks and the sisters frequently get themselves into these fits and ignore everyone else for a month or 2) when this morning J received a bunch of texts from both of them. The first few were from B suggesting they head out tonight. This only further insulted J as it suggested she doesn't have any other friends or plans and relies on B for her fun. J is going out with Bossman tonight anyway, since the two are getting along so well lately. And to think J hated him when she first started. B started practically begging J to go out with her and ditch Bossman. Did she really think that was going to work? J is much closer to Bossman these days than B who is completely unreliable and didn't even apologise for her over-the-top behaviour which is why they haven't spoken in weeks. A mere hour after B's texts, J started receiving some from K. These were mostly along the lines of the hey-how-are-you-how-are-things-with-Justin theme. It was strange to say the least. J sent a couple of messages back but didn't really understand any of it. What exactly are B and K hoping to acheive?

The question for the fab four is quickly becomiong: is it worth it to have these two people in our lives? It's no question that B and K are fun. K is completely insane, and her antics always have us in laughs the next day. From fights with bouncers to stalking guys whose name she doesn't know to sneaking into gigs to making friends with weirdos on the train...she's a laugh and a half. She's also a drama queen with no sense of approriate time and place. Who needs the public fights, the 4am crying phone calls, the many lies and wild goose chases we always seem to end up on (last Halloween we ended up crashing a 15 year old's birthday because she told us this guy she liked was having a party) and everything else that does with it? As for B, she used to always be a good time. Then she broke up with R, seemed to loose all her self-esteem and is never fun anymore. And she always lies as well. No one likes a liar.

The last two weeks without the twins have been just as much crazy fun as ever. We've danced in random people's backyards, had too much to drink, and skidded down rainy roads on old sleds. Tomorrow G and A have entered themselves in a skateboarding competition for a laugh (neither of them can skate) and H, L and E are doing karoke. Who needs B and K? Well, really.