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I have a fuuny feeling that opening an ISA might depend on actually having some money to put in one.
This must have been a goal I put up in the dim and distant past before going back to uni. You know, back when I had a positive bank balance to my name.

how easy it is not to make the most of the place you live!

Especially when you spend most of your evenings and weekends in the library/watching the x-factor results show on your laptop.

So far I haven’t:
-been to the castle
-climbed arthur’s seat
-climbed carlton hill
-entered a museum
-been to the theatre
-been to a nightclub
-gone to leith
-done a ghost tour

but I have
-been to the botanic gardens (lovely in the autumn colours)
-visited some nice buildings on doors open day
-eaten pub lunches
-bought notebooks

Will try and do three things off the not done list by the end of November.

I start running my first experiment on Tuesday! I’m quite excited, even though I’ve decided that particular line of research is actually incredibly dull probably not for me in the long term.

Lots of deadlines coming up in more exciting topics so I’m busy but happily so.

Today the disfluency journal club (journal clubs are cool, fact) arranged a tour of the electro-physiology lab (putting electrodes on people’s heads and getting them to do things) which was, naturally, underground and run by a man with an impressive Russian accent. That was VERY exciting.

I have so many (exciting) questions in my head at the moment that I want to look into; I’m having to crack open a notebook (any excuse for a notebook) just to write them all down so they’re still there by funding application time. Also exciting.