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highlyeccentricJoel's got a party to go to on the night we were supposed to catch the train home together. He was talking about turning up late to it (it's up the coast) and going part of the way with me on a train.
Doesn't matter, does it, if I'm on a train by myself for two hours or three? I'm still on a train by myself late at night.
Says Joel: LOL. ULL BE FINE.
Yes, yes, I probably will. But I will also be lonely and bored and I'll be a young woman by herself on a train late at night. It is unlikely that anything will happen to me. But I will still be twitchy, anxious, and jumpy the whole time. I usually take the stance that if you need to be somewhere in order to go about your business, you might as well go about your business and screw the Young Ladies Shouldn't Be Out At Night thing, because if no young lady goes about her business at night that perpetuates a situation where if you're a young woman out by herself at night you mustn't have a good reason for it. I also take the stance that there's no point doing things which make you unreasonably nervous or anxious unless you actually need to do them in order to go about your business late at night.
I don't need to be on a train at 10pm at night to go about my business. I had planned on doing so because I could arrange to have company. I don't actually enjoy twitching every time someone new comes into the cabin or anything. Damnit. If I knew Joel was going to the Central Coast I'd have gone to see William instead, I haven't seen him for longer than it's been since I saw my parents.
Bus tickets can't be refunded and I don't think the ones I bought can be transferred, either.
Doesn't matter, does it, if I'm on a train by myself for two hours or three? I'm still on a train by myself late at night.
Says Joel: LOL. ULL BE FINE.
Yes, yes, I probably will. But I will also be lonely and bored and I'll be a young woman by herself on a train late at night. It is unlikely that anything will happen to me. But I will still be twitchy, anxious, and jumpy the whole time. I usually take the stance that if you need to be somewhere in order to go about your business, you might as well go about your business and screw the Young Ladies Shouldn't Be Out At Night thing, because if no young lady goes about her business at night that perpetuates a situation where if you're a young woman out by herself at night you mustn't have a good reason for it. I also take the stance that there's no point doing things which make you unreasonably nervous or anxious unless you actually need to do them in order to go about your business late at night.
I don't need to be on a train at 10pm at night to go about my business. I had planned on doing so because I could arrange to have company. I don't actually enjoy twitching every time someone new comes into the cabin or anything. Damnit. If I knew Joel was going to the Central Coast I'd have gone to see William instead, I haven't seen him for longer than it's been since I saw my parents.
Bus tickets can't be refunded and I don't think the ones I bought can be transferred, either.
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Date: 2009-07-07 02:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-07 11:57 pm (UTC)I think I will
a) look into whether they have cloakrooms at parliament house, so as to find out if I am in Luggage Buggery or not (I have to be at the Senate that day for some training thing)
and then
b) see if I can find someone to stay overnight with in Sydney, or possibly stay in one of the backpacker hostels by the railway station, and catch an early train north.
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Date: 2009-07-09 10:03 am (UTC)