Not one but two elections coming up. First there is the Federal Election on 9 October. I'm not in town; I'll be in New South Wales that weekend. Then the next week is the ACT election and I'll be out of town again. Guess I'll have to cast absentee ballots, which means wasting my time at the Electoral Office.

Filed all the papers collected in the US -- about a foot of them -- away in the filing cabinet in order to clear the room for the cleaners. Downside is that now I will have to go through all the files to add the new material to the thesis.