Today I went to school to catch up with a group member i've had this semester to do some group study, I've never really done the whole studying with other people. Generally because I feel like I don't have enough time and that others will probably slow me down as I go at breakneck speeds to cover what I need to know. However todays 5 to 6 hour session was really good and actually helped me get head around what I need to cover. But anyway that's not what I want to talk about, what I want to talk about is what when I got to school. I ended up walking past this guy that went to high school with, i've seen him before and we don't acknowledge each other probably because of these reasons:

For Him: He probably doesn't say anything because James and I (and then later Ben) use to give him so much shit when we went to school that he probably thinks that I'll be a wanker to him if he says anything.

For Me: Well I wasn't sure it was really him until the 4th or 5th time I walked past him, by that time he stopped looking at me like he knew me and basically tries to avoid eye contact with me because of the whole awkwardness thing.

Anyway back to the main story, after I saw him I sat down with my group member and mentioned that I just saw a guy from my high school that went to school here and that is actually something pretty strange since my high school is about 4 or 5 hours drive from here. Then my group member goes, "where did you use to go to high school?" I answer "Bayview College in this town Portland, have you ever heard of Portland? It's a little coastal town past Warnambool blah blah...", stock standard response, he was a little taken back and then said "I'm from Portland and I went to Bayview". I was all WTF and then thought about his name and still couldn't picture him going to Bayview cause it is such a small school and you pretty much know everyone! At this point I felt like yelling out "There's no Angus McLeod in North Kilt Town, Why you're not from Scotland at all!" However this would have been insane and I may have scared the fellow off. Anyway, I'm sure shrike and res are thinking "WHATS HIS BLOODY NAME?!" Well for Internet privacy sakes lets just say that he said he was in the year above le soaps bro and has a very similar name to shrike :) (figure out that cryptic puzzle :P).

Anyway it was spooky, real spooky. I started feeling pretty old then he told me that he was 23, and since I am 25 I was like "huh?" because he was so many year levels below me, however he was old for his class and I was young for my class and so we figured that's how our ages are so close.

We also figured that there are probably only 3 Bayview students studying at Swinburne, and thats a lot supposedly, considering he told me that only about a 1/4 of kids from his year level left Portland after they finished high school and its getting worse. Quite a change from our year level which was probably at least 3/4?

Anyway that's that for now.

EDIT

Our yeah now I remember why I mentioned the other dood I walked past. I told my group guy to let him know that I feel terrible for giving him so much shit years ago and I hope there are no hard feelings. I've got a feeling I'm going to approach him the next time I see him (and I'm not in a terrible rush to be somewhere). In all honestly I hope he is alright with everything and doesn't hold a grudge, I'd hate to feel like I really hurt his feelings which may have really affected him in a negative way, high school can be so cruel... I know this from experience!