Storm madness!

Last night Canberra was hit by a 'supercell' storm, that dumped an enormous amount of hail and rain on the city in a short amount of time. Luckily our house (and neighbouring streets) escaped any damage, but the ANU? Absolutely totalled, it would seem. The campus isn't just closed for today, but for the rest of the week. It's like a snow day! The entire thing is just really bizarre. There are some great photos on flickr, as well as the ABC.

It's really weird to just be at home in the middle of the week. Of course, 90% of my classes are on Monday and Tuesday so I'm not actually missing out on much at all... but still, very weird!

Don't you know who I am?!

Yesterday was one of those infinitely frustrating days, where you set out with a list of seemingly simple tasks to complete, that quickly turn into a never-ending nightmare. Simple things like getting a prescription filled turned into day-long dramas: the chemist had run out of the (very common) medication on my prescription, I had to go to two banks in order to retrieve my bank card which was eaten by an ATM on Saturday, the ACT government office seemingly disappeared from Civic, the Motor Registry would only accept a complete lease agreement as proof of residency, not the bond lodgment form I had with me... what should have taken a couple of hours all up took the entire day, and I had to go back to the Motor Registry this morning, this time with enough forms of identification to sink a ship. But! The day was saved from being a complete bust by lunch and dinner, which were shared with fabulous company. So that was good.

On a slightly related matter: the reason I had to go to the Motor Registry (twice) was to get a proof of age card. I haven't had any 'official' forms of photo ID for the last two months, because both my Tasmanian Learner's Driver Licence and my passport both expired in December. Do you know how hard it is to live without that kind of stuff?! I couldn't even join the video store on the weekend. And yet my bank let me withdraw money from my account yesterday with only my crummy student card. Which does worry me slightly...