DAY 12: RAIN RAIN GO AWAY

To this point in the trip the rain has NOT gone away AND it has CAME another day. It has rained 10 of the 12 days we have been here and as I said in my previous blog this is the wettest May Sydney has had in 20 years. Not exactly the environment you imagine when you think of Australia. It rained all day today. I had an umbrella that proved to be no match for the rain at the bus stop this morning. My pants were soaked and my shirt and sweater were wet. Obviously, I was excited for the two-hour commute to work. Sorry, if I sound like a broken record but I promise I’ll stop writing about the rain when it well, stops raining. You hear that Mother Nature? I know you follow my blog you stupid….no, I won’t go there.

Anyway, I had another thrilling day at work. I worked on the same excel spreadsheet for the first four hours of my day. Quick math (hang with me, I’m not a math major) but I have worked on that for 2.5 days at 8 hours a day that is 20 hours and I am ¾ of the way done with it. So according to this math I still have……uh…….um…….some more hours of work to do on it. Approximately. However, the Good Lord (He is a follower of BoilerOutback) gave my supervisor the brilliant idea of giving me a break for the second half of the day. She gave me the task of ………(insert drumroll)………… dressing up as the mascot and walking around campus. I lied, that’d be sweet though, wouldn’t it?! What she really had me do was stuff CDs into their student newspaper for 3 hours. I really don’t know which is more fun - stuffing newspapers or doing an excel spreadsheet. In related news, I don’t know if I feel stronger about world hunger or poverty.

Anyway, that was really the extent of my day. Sorry I have nothing more to report. Oh, I burned a frozen pizza. Aussie ovens are so dumb. Making a frozen pizza requires Divine Intervention. The coils are on the top – only the top. It burns the cheese and doesn’t bake the crust - clearly not designed by a Purdue engineer. I love lamp. Random but this entire post is random so deal with it. Um, so I had cereal and a half-burned still kind of not done Pizza for dinner. Saving money is just so much fun. Here are some pictures that I promised of the Uni. These were not taken today. Hence, the yellow orb in the sky. Apparently some countries get this orb daily and the call it the sun. Okay, I am done with all this random drivel. That is all.


This is their new Research Park area. Macquarie is in the process of finishing a library that will have robots that retrieve your books for you. Pretty wild.


This is there "mall" area. A little different that Purdue's Memorial Mall huh?


This is the big courtyard area behind the building I work at. It's pretty nice.

Cheers!