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Not so much a rant, but it's still kinda bad, any way you flip it. It's more I guess a 'be careful' anecdote.

This past Friday evening, I was assaulted at a bus stop waiting for the night bus back to my dorm, by someone I had never met before in my time here, and it took me almost 45 minutes to get away from him. It was the longest 45 minutes of my life. I finally found a way to get away and walked so fast I am sure I left skidmarks on the pavement.

Luckily, I was not hurt, apart from some major emotional scars that are still surfacing and was coherant enough to give an accurate description of the guy, down to his jewelry. Thankfully, the porters and warden at my dorm took down my complaint, called the cops and they took my statement down. They are now in the process of looking through things, CCTV tapes and the like to see if they can find him on the screens.

I had never in my life felt so helpless and frightened. It's been a hellish 48 hours for me. I am getting better, but I will not be getting the Night Bus ever again, not by myself. And I will be carrying a personal alarm w/me at all times from now on.

I know I have some long time friends on here, and just wanted to let folks now why I hadn't been around for a few days. Thanks for reading.

It's getting better as I talk to my circle of friends about it, but it's still at times like it didn't happen to me, that I was watching from outside myself. The most unreal experience I have ever had in my life. Ironically, one of my flatmates had something similiar happen to her years back, so she knows exactly what I am mucking through now, and she's been a wonder. The police, btw, have been very helpful and understanding about all of this. I must have sounded like a shattered wreck, and I was, but they listened, and one of the officers has been back twice to check on me. I told her how helpless I felt and how I felt like I should have done more, or done something else, be more proactive. She plainly said that I did the best I could do, that I got away unharmed and that's a positive, a win. The fact that I could walk away (FAST) from it and keep a cool head was amazing and to be admired. I think about it now, and I know I wasn't under my own control- a few angels might have given me wings to 'fly'. Whatever the case, I wasn't hurt any worse and that's the main thing. I am still gonna talk to someone, a professional or spiritual leader, very soon. Just for my peace of mind, more than anything. I just hope they find this creep, and haul him in. I don't want someone else to go through what I did. Maybe that's me being selfish, but hell- what if it had been my flatmate, or a good friend, or god forbid my nieces?? I'd want that bastard's head on a pike in the City Center! For a MONTH! And have these mad Aberdonian seagulls shite on it to boot. Woo....anger moment, sorry about that. But I swear, If I saw him this moment, they'd run me for attempted homicide. LOL