Life in FGP2
Jul. 31st, 2006 12:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hilsOne of Jacqui's friends from work commented at our housewarming that our building is like the Big Brother house. It's all enclosed, not many people know its here and everyone seems to know everyone else.
Jacqui and I aren't really part of the group because we're a few years older than the rest of them and we can't stay out drinking until 3am on a week night because we have to work. The irony is it's always quiet on a weekend when I wouldn't care about them being drunk and loud, I suspect because the majority of them are students (or have recently graduated) so they all have weekend jobs.
Anway, it amused me when I got home from work on Friday. Nathan (the guy who lives in the flat above us) was outside chatting to one of the girls from our building. I stopped for a chat and immediately her attitude changed. She was quite cold when she was talking to me, not in a hostile way but there was definitely a change in her demenor. Either it's because she remembers me from the night I asked them all to be quiet, or she resented the fact that Nathan's attention wasn't wholly on her. He's the only single man in our building from what I can tell, and he only works part time as a tutor so he can party with them most of the time. I dunno, I found the whole thing quite amusing. It was very school-like.
Whilst I love our flat I find the building atmosphere quite surreal. I've said it before but it's like being in Halls of Residence again. Which is odd since I haven't lived in halls since 1998/9. It makes me feel like an old fuddy duddy and I'm only 26!
Jacqui and I aren't really part of the group because we're a few years older than the rest of them and we can't stay out drinking until 3am on a week night because we have to work. The irony is it's always quiet on a weekend when I wouldn't care about them being drunk and loud, I suspect because the majority of them are students (or have recently graduated) so they all have weekend jobs.
Anway, it amused me when I got home from work on Friday. Nathan (the guy who lives in the flat above us) was outside chatting to one of the girls from our building. I stopped for a chat and immediately her attitude changed. She was quite cold when she was talking to me, not in a hostile way but there was definitely a change in her demenor. Either it's because she remembers me from the night I asked them all to be quiet, or she resented the fact that Nathan's attention wasn't wholly on her. He's the only single man in our building from what I can tell, and he only works part time as a tutor so he can party with them most of the time. I dunno, I found the whole thing quite amusing. It was very school-like.
Whilst I love our flat I find the building atmosphere quite surreal. I've said it before but it's like being in Halls of Residence again. Which is odd since I haven't lived in halls since 1998/9. It makes me feel like an old fuddy duddy and I'm only 26!