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The clinking of stainless-steel on porcelain was all that kept Julie Proctor company in the office kitchenette this morning as she stared blankly out of the fourth-floor window.
She was making her third Nescafe Gold of the morning.
Speaking exclusively to The Advocate this morning, the senior project manager at Hutchenson Builder’s South Betoota office said her moment of solace was broken by a coworker coming into to make his own coffee.
“Hey!” said Mark Rawlins, also a senior project manager at the company that built Brisbane.
“How was Splendour? Did you see Kendrick do a shoey? How rank is that! Huh?”
He’d just spent the weekend bushwalking and camping with his fiance in the Lake Bindegolly National Park.
But Julie didn’t hear him.
She was still looking out the window, her ears still ringing.
Flashbacks raced through her mind. Seeing bands she’d always wanted to hear. Even Franz Ferdinand impressed the 28-year-old.
“What was that?” she said, her brain pouring back into reality.
“How was Splendour?” he repeated.
“Oh yeah, it was great,” she laughed.
“Kendrick was mad. Lorde was also great but it was too quiet but I guess I couldn’t really hear anything because I had alcohol poisoning on the first night,”
“First night fever, hey?”
She then told our reporter that Mark asked if she was OK.
Assuring him that she was, they finished making their coffees in silence.
“See you at 3 for the monorail contract meeting,” he said.
Julie nodded and went to say something but nothing came out.
More to come.
