I scored an awesome free bed this week. An elderly couple in a coworker's/friend's apartment had to get rid of a fold out couch quickly before their new couch arrived. It's from Ikea (everything here is, I think), but it's much more comfortable than the mattress I had on the floor before. You can see it in the cool 360 degree picture of my room. Sorry I didn't clean up, at least it's real! I also scored some shelves I haven't put up yet, and a very 80s bike (just wait for the pictures!).

I was invited to a board games evening at my supervisor's last night, we played a version of spoons and a crazy 6 person twist on speed. Board/dice/card games seem to be pretty popular, especially Kniffel which as far as I can tell is the same as Yahtzee.

In other news, I had my first lectures today. Plant Metabolomics at 9 then The Uses of Plants for the Future at 11. They were pretty interesting, although not hugely closely related to my project, but the choices are narrowed down a lot by not understanding German. The ball is starting to get rolling on my project, sorting out the little details of how to do stuff mostly, and probably will try to get some real data this week or early next week.

I am pleased to hear the weather isn't fantastic back home, it's a beautiful autumn day here today - clear skies (apart from hundreds of jetstreams), not too much wind, etc. Hope you are all well, and if you have exams, hope you aren't/weren't too stressed.