but melbourne city got a taste of chaos today when tragedy struck in the cbd at 8.15 this morning. because as late night party gooers slept off their one too many beers, and hardworking commuters made their way to work, 8 gunshot rounds rung out from the corner of william street and flinders lane. after falling asleep at 2am, i was awoken by a frantic aunty margie to report that 3 people were gunned down in the city, with the shooter still at large. for the rest of the day, southbank (and along with it my suburb of south yarra) was cordened off from the rest of the city by ambulances and homicide squads. at close to 10am, the gun supposedly used in the offense was found dumped at a construction site at queen street - 2 roads parallel from where the shooting occured. the story currently stands that the shooter pulled a woman out of a cab at 8.15am by her hair, at which point he was intervened by 2 bystanders coming to the woman's aid. he then pulled out a gun, shot the woman he was assaulting AND the two men who got involved. by the time paramedics arrived, one of the men was pronounced dead. though the remaining 2 victims are said to be in stable condition, it has now been over 10 hours and no report of the shooter's apprehension has been released.

i know i'm beginning to sound like a printout from the day's paper, but when most of your friends live within a 10 block radius of where 3 people were shot in broad daylight, and with none of them diligent news watchers... you tend to want to get all the details you can ;) thankfully joe's current bout of sleep deprivation left him unconscious in southbank and jacq was too busy with her family to play nancy drew :D

and though this has absolutely nothing to do with the topic i started off talking about... something recently occured to me. over the last few months i've been raving about my roommate max... but i've never even bothered introducing her! so here's a graphic representation of the most loyal friend i could ever ask for :D