C. invited me to a party tonight, a farewell party for a -now- ex-colleague of the Times. We would take the bus so C. would come over to ours. Because she was running a bit late I. brought her over and decided to take us to Stratford because we had to change buses there. He took us to the bus station where we had to wait for ten minutes for the bus to arrive. When it did, it was jam-packed.
Just outside of Stratford a Caucasian man got of the bus clearly annoyed by two other guys who were black. The Caucasian guy tried to stay reasonable and tried to explain his annoyance to one of the guys but didn’t succeed, he then turned around to walk away but the moment he turned he got hit by the black guy. He hit the man so hard he hit him unconscious and he fell flat on his face. He was just lying there for ages not moving anything while a huge pool of blood started to flow from under his head/face.
I was totally horrified having to watch all this from the bus. Scared that the man had died. Chris and I ran up to the driver telling him not to leave because the man was still unconscious and bleeding severely. The bus driver called an ambulance. It took ages and I had to call A. just to vent. I felt so helpless and angry. Pointless violence, I just hate it. It was quite shocking to see and I was very emotional being a witness of all this…
Chris left her mobile number with the bus driver in case we had to come to the police station and point out the guys who did this or leave a statement. I have a very clear picture of what happened and what both guys looked like. They just ran off as fast as they could. Tossers. Anyway after about 15 minutes the man was conscious again but still suffering from memory loss. As soon as the ambulance was there we left and took the next bus down town being totally absent-minded.
I didn’t really feel like going to a party anymore because I had this looping movie in my head. I needed a strong drink to be honest. We got off the bus halfway and took a cab to the Ivory House where we were supposed to meet up at the Bang Bar. After finishing two bottles of wine I had a really nice evening I have to admit… Chris and I both had a great time. I’ve met some people from the Times, also got into a conversation with a total stranger. Some Italian guy, who probably still has to come out of the closet and find himself being gay.
He moved here two months ago and knew no-one. So we ended up comparing situations. I handed out my business card to several people and will have to meet up with one of the designers for lunch. He was interested in and impressed by my knowledge, which is good because it’s networking and will bring me possible assignments. He made it all sound promising! Like all graphic designers do at some point I will have to exchange some software since I promised him… Funny how that always seem to happen, must be a designers thing…
At one in the morning I hailed a cab and we drove home to I.’s where him and A. have been composing music all evening. It was good to be back again. I had a really nice evening even though it didn’t start off well. Met some really nice people, had a good laugh and got pretty wasted. Talked to Christina and Nicole again who I’ve met at the Barbie auction preview at Christie’s [see post and pics here –>]
I can’t remember when I was this wasted; it has been quite a while since I have been taking meds that didn’t allow me to drink alcohol… Let’s hope there will be some assignments soon…