Somthin' Fishy Goin' On Here

So you all know that I have this lovely view out the fron of the building from my room. Plus, my room is dark and sad without the curtains open, so when it isn't sweltering I keep the curtains open. And my eyes work, as do my deduction skills. Combine all this with normal human curiosity and you can see that I can't help but be a spy on my fellow SCUers. Other than being drunk outside my window or smelling the hallway up with marijuana, they've been pretty uninteresting actually. But James has changed all that. The other day on the bus back from London he mentioned that he had this girlfriend (technicall ex-girlfirend) who was French but worked here, and they had broken up because her visa to come to the US had fallen through. Cool. I understand this.

Friday evening was the croquet match, and I saw him walking around holding hands with a black haired girl. Presumably French girl because that morning at breakfast he had shared that they spent the night watching the Break-Up with Jennifer Aniston and what's-his-face, and wondering why they had broken up. Cool. This makes sense.


Cut to Saturday. In the late morning I saw his walking some blond chick out of the gate. They weren't holding hands but it did seem a little fishy. Does he have some visiting friend? And then he returned about 20 minutes later girl-less, so it looked a bit like a one-nighter followed by the walk home. I actually considered that French girl might have bleached her hair, but it had been after 9:00 the night before when I saw her with black hair so this seemed unlikely.

Cut to Saturday night. Black-haired girl returns, and she and James sit on the lawn wearning his two nearly identical sweaters, drinking wne and chatting. No cuddling, but they had held hands the night before and she definately had not dyed her hair. WTF?

And just now...I saw him walking a reddish haired girl out the gate, holding hands!!! It MIGHT have been the blond from yesterday, but the hair definately looked redder. Either way, James seems to be workin' the system pretty good of late. He is actually a bit of a shmuck. I wonder what black haired girl would think if she knew he was all sad to be broken up with her, if indeed she is the French ex, only to be shacking up with various other girls only hours after hanging out with her. What a Collin.