Kate was feeling down today. She received some bad news last night. So I did what any decent girl friend would do and propelled her towards the lolly shop. She bought 30 cents worth of raspberry twists. I splurged and bought a 60 cent peanut cluster.

A peanut cluster is a disc of chocolate studded with peanuts. Mine was about 8 cm in diameter, 50 mm thick. I’ve eaten two before but I wasn’t ready for the way this one would hit me.

Halfway through the disc, I became woozy. “Ooooh… chocolate sick… (groan).” I didn’t understand it. Now, I love chocolate but normally don’t handle it very well. For example, I can’t finish a normal-sized Mars Bar. But this was ridiculous. It was less than 20 grams and most of it was peanut too.

I nibbled at it slowly through Policy class. I think the chocolate went to my head because during class discussion I started making comments… to Kate and Fran beside me, to the lecturer, to the class in general. Oh, they were all very pertinent and useful remarks but somehow, I was hilarious. People laughed at all my jokes! I was brilliant! I was droll! The Peanut Cluster had imbued me with Comedic Powers!

In the break, someone suggested we have a Kit Kat but just thinking about it made me sick.