Very well explned

Exhausting Day

Work up at 4:30am this morning after falling asleep at 9pm last night. Couldn't get back to sleep and watched the first half of a Johnathon Creek episode that got recorded by mistake.Tried to watch a House episode as well but the recording was stuffed. 

Yesterday I went to Wallsend RTA to get my licence renewed. Had no problem last time around (about 5 years ago) but they have a new system where they are linked to the Centrelink database (!) and it seems that my "real name" didn't match my "preferred name" on the records. So today I went back with recognition certificate in hand, and a birth extract, to confirm what my real name is! Don't get me wrong - the RTA staff have always been polite and very helpful to me (the do come across in trying to make the process as stressless as possible) but it was still a pain.

Afterwards I caught a bus to Westfields at Kotara and checked out Borders to see if there was anything worth getting. I thought that's only take about 5 minutes but it took an hour. All the books are 50% off and after staggering around I had three candidates - a book on Roman Emperors (including East Roman and Holy Roman ones), A Daniel Clowes graphic novel and a book on ancient Roman occupations called IX to V. After a lot of deliberation I bought the latter. But I was already exhausted and didn't even want to get an Indian curry from the food hall there (I settled for two dim sums). Caught a bus to Glendale via John Hunter Hospital (were I got called "Sir" by an attendant), did a little shopping at Edgeworth Coles and caught the next bus home.

I had originally though to see a film maybe, but just lost all energy after getting to Kotara. Blah. Spend some sorry moments on buaes today not enjoying much of it at all. At least Dr Who is on in a few minutes.