Unobtrusiveness, vegan baking and party Mondays.

People are slowly but surely turning into distinct friend groups and, much like high school, I haven't found myself in any of them but rather on the outskirts of many. I suppose it's a good place to be and there's still a lot of time for this to change but there are advantages to not having a super defined friend group at this point. For example,  I can feel out who will and won't annoy me come a few months from now. If people annoy me after a week then I can drift away and no feelings will be hurt. Bam, I can be around the people who are worth it in the long run. Another perk is that because I'm only one person and I don't have a posse, I'm competent at crashing parties and other social events. It's not particularly hard to socialize with some people for a while when you have no obligation to stay for a particular amount of time. My high school experience was pretty devoid of parties but the skills of finding a group of people to prevent me from aimlessly wandering during lunch have paid off. I think that I fall into the female category of 'chill bro' because very few people have ever been offended with my personality or presence. I'm pretty unobtrusive.

Yesterday I made vegan baked goods with my cool vegan friend Catherine from next door. She's really cool and we made friends with people in the kitchen who were cooking massive amounts of Kraft Dinner and eating it out of the pot. I've decided that vegan baking is better than normal baking because the batter can be eaten without fear of raw eggs.

This strange phenomenon happens here on Mondays. Due to the FYP program only being four days a week and no classes on Tuesday, Mondays become a party night. I went to a brief, awful party last night where there were about thirty people in a double room and most people were absolutely hammered by 9:30pm. However, I and all the other journalism students on campus have four hours of journalism on Tuesdays so I must come to terms with being one of the small fraction of the campus to revive themselves every Tuesday morning and go about business as usual except more lectures and pressure than usual. I feel like parties inherently don't work on Mondays so I've come to terms with it.
Hearts,
Julianne