Today is so wrong. Everything feels wrong.
- In some parts of the state we have bush fires, in others we have snow.
- ForecastFox told me it was supposed to be 16 degrees Celsius today but I’m sure it was above that when I left the house at 8am. At the moment however, it’s cloudy and extremely windy and I expect it might be quite cold when I leave (FYI it’s supposed to be spring here in Australia).
- When I got to work I was here before Mel and Yvonne despite being half an hour later than usual.
- The radio keeps announcing that two people, a NSW State MP and someone else involved in government (I think) have been charged with child abuse (the most recent charge being “having sex with a ten year old”, I’m not sure if that’s a boy or girl). The MP I knew about, he’s in hospital at the moment because he tried to commit suicide.
- People from one of the other labs kept asking me when Mel was going to be here because they needed her to show them the fluorescent microscope. They were quite upset but as it turns out it was they who weren’t ready to be shown it yesterday.
- There is a refrigerator in the middle of the lab, brand new. I don’t know if we’re going to unwrap it and use it. It might just sit there for a week.
- None of the equipment we have for photographing results works at the moment so I can’t adequately record some weird results I got. It seems to me that it wouldn’t be that expensive to buy a simple digital camera for the lab’s convenience.
You can see why things feel a little unusual I’m sure. Add to that my blocked nose and headache from a virus and I wouldn’t mind being at home in bed.
Chris says
I always loved spring in Australia, and fall too… summer in Sydney reminded me too much of Houston but with better scenery (re: far too hot and muggy). I liked the drier heat in Perth (closer to home in Dallas), but not by much more… and while the brush fires weren’t a big problem when I was there last, a lot of people were still talking about the fires that almost consumed Canberra (though it was so hot there and in Melbourne they had to slow the trains down to make sure we didn’t derail). All that aside, still love the place 🙂