Funny story...

That title is something I say far too often at the moment.

A couple of days ago
I was on the computer when Daniel (my mentor) came in to tell me a meeting had been cancelled, and I was like "yeah I already knew, thanks" and he's like "do you have any questions at all" and I said I didn't. Then he didn't get up from the chair next to me, and I felt like saying "why are you still sitting there?" but I couldn't because unlike him, I know how socially interacting with people works.

So he proceded to sit there for the next quarter of an hour or so, just watching what I was doing over my shoulder. And I really wanted to just swear. But instead had to try and get him to leave through boredom. I couldn't use E-mail, Facebook, anything at all that concerns my private stuff I don't actually want him to see. I instead started reading a long report on a recent Arsenal game and eventually he said he was going back to his classroom. Then I went into my conversations being like "sorry, I wasn't replying just now because my mentor..."

Same day, after work
I left kinder, and in the distance saw a line 7 tram arriving at the tram stop, which I knew I could never catch even if I sprinted. So instead I sprinted over a car-park to the next tram stop around the corner, hoping to catch it there. I could have got there except I was on the wrong side of the road when it arrived and couldn't get over cause of traffic, and another tram coming in the other direction. Then I thought I'd go to the tram stop 2 stops away from this one, cause that stop was going to be my destination anyway, to change to a line 12 tram.

I knew I had to run though.
And I did.
Like 500m.

And I got there just as the new line's tram was arriving, and ran up to the end door. There was an elderly man in front of me, waiting for his wife, who was hobbling over to us. Because I'm such a nice person, I let her go past me, and the two of them got on, then the door began to close, and I pressed the open button several times but the door kept closing and stayed shut, and the tram departed. And I swore not quite loudly enough for anybody else to hear. It was like, reverse karma. If I hadn't let the elderly lady go in front of me, I could have been on the tram before the door closed. So I was there, absolutely stuffed from running that distance in my warm jacket, having not kept fitness up since arriving in Europe. I browsed in a Euroshop (everthing for 1€) until the next line 12 tram arrived.


What else...
Evermore released their third studio album today! I've pre-ordered it on iTunes store and will download it next time I go to the hostel near my apartment to use the internet on my laptop. Which could be tonight. It's a concept album, which is quite different from what the guys have done before, with some more synth-techno type songs and some more symphonic songs. But generally there won't be anything like "Light Surrounding You". Buy it! Unless it's bad, in which case I'll blog about it ASAP to stop you guys buying it and blaming me when you hear it. But it won't be bad, will it?

ooh what a mysterious ending.