First off, I apologise for my extended absence. I was on holiday for six weeks :D and naturally it's taking me a while to get back into the swing of things in the new semester. Also, I had no idea what to write about. But as always, my friends have (unwittingly) provided me with much-needed material for a new post.
Ever heard of the term "gobweb"? Yes, it is one of the grossest-sounding terms I have ever come across in my life. It makes me think of stringy saliva...ewwwie. And yet, unfortunately, it seems that 90% of the Rhodes students - in fact, most students all over the world - are involved in a gobweb of sorts. It just becomes more prevalent here because Grahamstown is such a tiny little place.
For those of you who are now confused, imagine a gobweb to be rather like a spider diagram or mindmap, where people are linked via hookups. For example, say I hooked up with Bob. Then Bob hooked up with Julie. On the gobweb, I am indirectly linked to Julie. Gettit? It's not a complicated concept.
On Sunday night my friends and I were chilling in one friend's room, drinking tea and chatting. The concept of the gobweb came up, and we slowly realised that we were all connected by at least one removal. For example, Julie and Sue are my friends. I hooked up with Bob, Bob hooked up with Julie, Julie hooked up with Fred, Fred hooked up with Sue.
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OK it looks way better if you actually draw the diagram. It's a rather disturbing concept. In fact, it seems to be almost impossible to find someone in Grahamstown who hasn't:
a) Hooked up with one of your friends
b) Been friends with one of your friends
c) Been hit on by one of your friends.
At first I thought that hey, maybe my friends are just liberal like that :P (you guys know I'm joking...) But then last night I met a girl for the first time and we started chatting. Surprise, surprise...we've both hooked up with the same guy at some point in the past. Myself and a complete stranger not only hooked up with the same guy, but (judging from our conversation about boys we know at Rhodes in general) have almost exactly the same taste in guys. That's downright creepy. Especially when you consider how dirty and bacteria-ridden the human mouth is. To put it crudely, hooking up with the same guy/girl as your friend implies that you've both had your tongue in the same mouth. Disturbing image? My point exactly.
What is the point of this post? Mostly to really, really creep people out :D seriously though, it's no wonder that colds, flu and stomach bugs travel so quickly around the students here. Hooking up with random people is bad (Yes, I am the ultimate hypocrite. Don't judge me :P ) and it is on this basis that I applaud one particular friend of mine, who has not had a single random hookup in the almost-two years that she's been here. Not for lack of opportunity, mind - she even had one hot boy taking his shirt off on the dancefloor to impress her (or so I've heard). But, as she said last night, "Drunk or sober, I have standards."
Words to live by.
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