F*#K*NG Castle Party!!

Poor Spot!! I got home extremely late today. Started at 8 and was back about twenty minutes ago, making it almost a 12 hour straight day. It having been such a long day, I have decided to splurge a little tonight (sorry missus)….so I am going to spend about $14 in dinner tonight and go nuts…bruschetta, followed by ravioli AND diet coke!! What’s even better is that I am sitting in a restaurant called “Safari” and there is only one couple in here. It’s dead! But this I like! Anyway, poor Spot.

I get home tonight, the pups are waiting for me and I feed them. I then do a couple of little tasks in Chez Chris and get ready to pop down to Mae Haad for dinner and internet time. Just about to leave, so I go to say bye to the pups and Spot has an open cut on her back. Not sure what she got it from….knowing the assholes on this island, someone could have swatted at her and done it. It’s not too deep a cut, but enough to look sore. I put some iodine on it (thanks, Trish, for the medical kit you gave me before I left). I’ll have to keep an eye on it….

And HEY, Gavin is back!! Did I introduce Gavin? He’s the big ass gecko/guila monster who lives behind the screen in my little “kitchen” area. He’s been absent a week, so it is good to know the little (well big) fella is ok.

I’m wondering how I am going to avoid the apartment for as long as possible tonight….it’s yet another god-damn Castle party. It was already thumping when I did my quick turnaround from school to dinner. Considering the fact that I feel knackered for some reason and that I want to go for a run before the IDC tomorrow morning, I am not a happy camper. I am so wary of the sleeping tablets when I have any kind of timeline for the next day now after that incident where I almost missed the boat with the advanced students the one time. Luckily, I don’t have to be at the IDC until 10 tomorrow, but I still have a lesson plan to prep tonight, run some errands in the morning and, as I said, hopefully get a run in. If I get slightly pissed in the next couple of hours and then pop a sleeping tablet, I am worried I will wake up at 11 or something…..

Dammit. Not that James will have any issues with it tonight….although he lives at the same complex, loverboy is staying over at Staff Instructor Laura’s pad!! Naughty boy.

Oh…..so, slap on my wrist….Noé and I got caught slightly “cheating” today. We have no intention of doing anything like this on the actual IE, but as we are still prepping, we try to help each other out when acting as instructor and student by trying to remind the one playing instructor of problems they might have missed. Noé had to demonstrate a fin pivot with oral inflation (sounds almost pornographic when it is put like that) and then watch two of us act as students. My assigned “problem” was to use my hands to perform the skill instead of buoyancy. Well, Noé thought I was doing something else wrong, so after the skill he reminded me to not do the thing he thought I had done wrong. I tried to give him a little signal of what I had actually done wrong, but eagle-eyed jackass Tim spotted me doing it. Which resulted in Noé’s score being knocked down a point (although it would have gone down more points if he had completely missed the issue) and in Tim watching my skill like a hawk and scoring extremely conservatively. I still got a great score, but yes, we were warned not to engage in any of that business.
Ah well….

So dinner last night was yummy……although I got completely ripped off……Noé promised dhal. But we had pasta!! Yummy pasta, but I was totally stoked about dhal….s’ok though, Noé has promised to make it for tomorrow night. But last night was James and Laura, Noé and Célia and the spare wheel, me. Kind of freaked me out actually. Not hanging out with the Swiss munchkins, but watching the whole interaction thingy with the new “couple”….crap, they settled right into it after a couple of days of bonking!! Natalie thinks we are all jealous…..s’not jealousy, s’just weird!

I simply don’t know how to handle it. Like I am not going to know how to handle Alice and Greg getting it on when Alice gets back to Koh Tao in a week or so. Remember Alice? She was a fellow DMT when I was doing that course. She was here with her boyfriend, but they broke up on her birthday (her 30th). She got hammered for about three out of four days from her birthday on. But no one saw her ending up with Greg as a result of it….it was just ……odd. And now she is coming back and it looks like she will be shacking up with Greg.

What’s going on on this island? A bunch of people who you’d never in a million years imagine being together are suddenly boffing and shacking up. It’s kind of fucked up….wow, Laura has even extended her stay here until James leaves for different waters!! Well, I guess that makes sense…repressed nun getting frisky and all, but Alice coming back from the UK to be with Greg (on the pretence of doing an IDC…..pah)….I don’t get it.

Shit. It is only 9 p.m. and I have caught up on email, finished this blog and so on…..I have no clue what to do to ….. Sure I have a lesson plan to finish, but I think I need to get drunk first….damn…..