The REAL reason I moved to Canberra

Yes, I'm sure my title shocked you all. No doubt you thought I moved to Canberra to:
1) Be closer to John Howard whom I have a deep and VERY sexual crush on.
2) Move away from my friends and family to live out my dream of becoming a hermit.
3) Be closer to Ridhish in the hopes that he has an indian friend who I could fall madly in love with so that Vids and I could do that freaky double-date thing that Americans do!
4) be three hours away from Sydney so that when I drive up and back I have ample time to sing at the top of my lungs to all my favourite songs without getting stares or told to shut the bleep up.
5) Oh yeah and do my PhD

Nope none of those are the real reasons for my moving to Canberra. The REAL reason is that it is cold. It is sometimes soooo freaking cold that it actually S.N.O.W.S!!! Yes, thats right. If you follow Australian Rugby League, you may be aware of a game played in Canberra about three years ago where the poor men (and more importantly the poor cheerleaders) actually had to play/dance in the snow. It was something that stuck in my head when I found the website for my school and it was on my mind when my flatmate rang me up yesterday to say that it was snowing where she was. I quickly got excited, ran downstairs to drag my friend outside and we proceeded to look around for any snow flakes.
He got bored VERY quickly and went inside. Aboout two hours later the long-awaited snow actually started falling for a whole 20 seconds (Aside for Joel: it may have been tissues - I didn't check)!!! I got so excited I screamed loudly in the lab and people generally think I'm crazy now. hehe
It did in fact snow overnight as well and while driving to work I was singing I'm dreaming of a white christmas as a car that clearly is not sheltered drove past me with frosted windows and two-inch thinck snow on its roof!

So that is the real reason for my Canberra residency. I hope you all have a lovely day in your mild and subtropical conditions and I hope that you all get I'm dreaming of a White Christmas in your head!!!