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Upon the expiration of my tutoring duties yesterday afternoon (having accidentally told my class to prepare their graph of the experiment in the incorrect way) I went to the pub for a thirst-quenching ale. This innocent note belied the craziness that would follow, “Clwedd/Zoe @ Club 20/10/05 4:15pm”. That’s right, 4:15pm - the labs usually finish at 5, but sometimes enough is enough. Clwedd joins me at about 4:45pm, I call Zoe shortly afterwards to hear, “I’m going home with Kiki. See you later. You’re breaking up… *beep beep beep beep*”.

Before I go further I must explain, the watering hole at JCU’s Townsville campus is known as The Club. On Friday afternoons they have a chilled out session with cool bands called Bludgers, frequented mainly by postgrads and lecturers. Thursday, however, is a very different affair. Usually there’s a bunch of people chilling in the beer garden and chatting after classes finish. Then everyone goes home and has dinner (or back to the colleges to be fed), before coming back at 10 to get completely blind, try to pick up and get in fights with Army guys who think they can steal the uni girls (which they usually do).

One of the most dangerous moves, which I have now performed twice, is to stay at the club during the lull. It adds about 3 jugs to your tally and you don’t get dinner! Clwedd and I are trying to moniker this death-defying feat; We think the “Evel Knievel” or “The Snake River Jump” would be good.

Anyway, about the aboreal ninjas. While we were mucking around, after Clwedd had sensibly gone home at 10, I chucked Cam’s thong off the balcony. He said if I went to get it, there’d be a drink waiting for me when I got back. So, in my dare devil style, I jumped from the hand rail of the balcony into a tree and climbed down to the ground in a series of fast, dangerous, ninja-style monkey swings. J exclaims, “Dude, you’re an arboreal ninja”.

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