Early observations

So far this week, I have...

• Seen my first ring-necked parakeets, flying overhead. They sounded like a cross between a squeaky toy and a particularly irritable sparrow.
• Encountered my first manspreader on the Tube. I was bunched up against his right thigh. Thanks.
• Sat in class doing nothing for half an hour when we were supposed to have an IT induction, because IT didn't know we were supposed to have an IT induction.
• Sat in a lecture theatre watching colleagues play charades for half an hour when we were supposed to have a safety induction, because we'd all been given the wrong room for the safety induction.
• Got lots of exercise in a futile search for said safety induction.
• Lost faith in the organisational ability of the university.