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A quick blog, before I get on to what I'm supposed to be doing. And while I wait for the lines to die down somewhat.

For the last 40 minutes, the power was out all over the campus. I was working on a group assignment at the tim it cut out - there's nothing like that moment of blank incomprehension you get just as the power goes out and the monitor goes black. Obviously, being that we were in a practical, we all sat around dumbly for a few moments, at least grateful that the air conditioning had been turned off and we were no longer freezing our arses off.

After 10 or so minutes of waiting, by which time most people had already vanished, I decided it was time to do the only thing I really had to do at Uni that didn't involve a computer. Get my reader for one of my courses.

At least, I THOUGHT it didn't require a computer. They moved the location at which they were selling readers to the Kaf, and were not going to start selling them again until the power came back.

There went that idea. The Kaf itself was closed too, so no purchasing junk-food to keep me occupied. So I came back here and hung around for a while, before deciding there was nowhere to sit out here and trecking up to the library. I'd just made myself comfortable when we were informed that, as the power had been off for 40 minutes and they had no idea when it would be back, the library would be closing. Books could still be borrowed manually. We really do seem to be that reliant on the air conditioning system. It's rather... Sad, really.

So I drifted about campus, like a lot of the other students, waiting for the power to come back so that we could go to our lectures or do our assignments or eat our junkfood - basically, so that uni life could return to normal.

Frightning how a power outage on a hot day can completely stop the entire campus.

Well, half the campus. The builings on te other side of the campus were unaffected.

Yeah... I'm back at Uni allright -_-

Okay, now to go wait in a line for a while.
- posted by Washi @ 12:47 pm