It was pouring with rain this morning as I made my journey into uni. I don't what it is about the rain, but when it rains like it did this morning, heavy rain but not windy it feels kind of exhilarating, like nothing matters at all. Or maybe its because it reminds me of my hypothesis that every romantic movie has a scene where it rains. Actually, I take that back, its even better when its summer and it rains like that. Its a nice way to start the day.

Everyday there are little things that help distinguish it from all the other days that had happened before. Sometimes these little things are harder to find depending on the kind of day I had (the lousy, dark cloud days). But the rain was one of those things. Another was bumping into one of my high school friends, Annie (though it was only for a few minutes - we both had to do different things). Actually, it was a high school themed day - I also found out Eric, who I also went to high school with is back at Bio21 working as a RA (reasearch assistant). It was a surprise to see him in the lab, as I thought he was still overseas!

Also what happened today was a revisit to the Typhoon - which is basically a big fancy machine that is able to scan things. We have had a difficult relationship so far, and for some bizarre reason, everytime I use it, it never works properly. I don't understand why, because no one else has problems with it, but I keep getting software errors and it refuses to scan. So instead of a scan taking 20 minutes, it takes an hour :P Maybe our relationship will improve over time, but obviously, we have to get to know each other first.

Because of that, everything else that I had planned to do got pushed back, and meant I had to stay later than I thought. It is really annoying when I stay back in the lab after 6pm, as public transport seems to fade to non existence after that time. It makes it more difficult to get home at night. Luckily it hasn't happened too much yet. Anyway, I just made it - I arrived at the bus stop just as my bus pulled up :) It also meant that my brother and I caught the same bus home. It was good to talk, but I always wonder when I talk to someone on the bus, where its so quiet and you're the only people talking, if the other passengers on the bus (and it was a full bus) are listening to your conversation. Hmmmm. Well, I know that I don't tend to listen - unless its interesting of course. Or if I'm not asleep. Oh well, it wasn't as if we were talking about anything that anyone else was interested in - we spent a lot of it trying to figure out where we actually were, as the bus windows had fogged up because of all the combined body heat in the bus.

*From last post: For helping out with Open Day, I ended up chosing hte bottle of red wine*