So today the power went out – evidently at about 4am. Although I was asleep and so missed it. Apparently a sub-station up the road overloaded and gave up the ghost. So the campus is without power. I haven’t had a shower today (my poor colleagues and I need to wash my hair!) and had to have spreadable cheese and sugar snap peas on rye bread for first lunch (I had a second lunch, but more about that later), rather than the risotto I had planned on. Cold risotto just isn’t that much fun.
I turn up at work this morning – sans caffeine (I’m still sans caffeine actually!) and wondered how the university would function. Only to discover that due to the ‘load shedding’ that has been happening here over the last six months or so, the university is very well prepared. We have a back-up generator and in every room there is a magic red plug! Said magic red plug puts you onto the emergency grid, consequently how I am able to write this now. So I still have the interweb, but no coffee. I did, however, manage to score a second lunch with two of the Pro-VCs and one of my colleagues. Part of the whole welcoming to Monash SA thing. It was lovely, food was good and we sat in the sun, so I'm without artificial stimulants and have been partly put to sleep by sunshine!
So, I think I might have to go and investigate to see if anyone else has misappropriated the magic red plug to boil the kettle!
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