Surprise, surprise!
Yesterday afternoon I went to SpringFest at the lake. All sorts of delicious-smelling food, and it was really, really hard not to break my fast.
I wasn't really surprised to run into Quinney and his girlfriend whose name I still don't know; that gothic guy from the Socialist Alliance (or was it the Greens?) who's name I don't remember either; a group of people from Ballarat City Church; or my Myth & Mythmaking lecturer.
But I was rather surprised to run into Holly, a girl I dated in year 11 (2000) and hadn't seen since about halfway through 2001. At first she didn't recognise me (I look a bit different now) and just kept walking past. I kept walking too, remembering the last time we'd encountered, in Melbourne CBD:
I'd just been to an art lecture at the National Gallery of Victoria. She was smoking with a couple of friends, so I stopped to talk while trying hard not to scrunch up my eyes as she blew smoke in my face to show her friends how bad she was.
Annnnnyway...
After I heard her stop and turn around I stopped and turned around too and said, 'Is that Holly?'
No derr...
Turns out her boyfriend goes to uni here in Ballarat, so she'd come up to visit him for the weekend. She didn't know I lived in Ballarat now. She's doing a child-care course at a TAFE back in Melbourne. Moved out of her mum's place at the start of this year; now shares a house with a uni student. And she has a pierced lip now.