Well today I spent most of my time doing nothing but waiting. My mum had the wonderful idea that we should go and renew my french ID card this morning since it runs out tomorrow, so off we went to London early this morning to go to the French Embassy and get it done.

Train was late. And full. And delayed due to problems with the track. Anyway, we arrived about half an hour late into Paddington then got on yet another full train.
Got to Embassy and had to queue outside to get in cos they were searching everone's bags and stuff just like at airports so it was super slooooow. We were given ticket number 81. Cool. Go to waiting room. Sign says, "Now serving: 35". Ok, it'll be a little wait.

...sign does not change to 36 for at least half an hour.

We waited 4 hours to be seen and I don't get my ID back til next year. Woman answered personal phone calls while seeing to us which held us up even more. Grrr.

All trains on way back were packed.

Town where I live packed also, due to Reading Festival (the rock festival, that is... nothing to do with books). Spent ages in traffic. Got back 6pm.

All in all a really great day, made much much better by the fact that we could have done it all on the net... But nooo they don't tell you that on the phone line thing. Idiots.

Anyway. My birthday tomorrow (yay. Not.)... Gotta say, I'm not really looking forward to it this year. Normally it's like, YAY BIRTHDAY but nah. This is gonna be one of those days where I'm doing normal things with normal people just like any other normal day. Except I'll be a year older. Which won't feel any different.

Blah.