These entries are taken from a journal I planned on keeping throughout my stay in Edinburgh in 2000/2001. Unfortunately I didn’t keep to it as well as I should have, but the few entries I did get down on paper brought back memories. This is the seventh and final post.

2/5/2001

Hmph. Still no job but I’m having fun all the same.

Amy’s birthday was fun. I got her a few books she was interested in and took her to dinner at DeNiro’s Italian Restaurant just down the street from my flat.

My flatmate Neil’s father died two weeks ago… Neil’s sister Jennie came back here from Australia for a week for the funeral. Sad. Neil’s kept to himself about the whole thing so I haven’t pressed him to talk about it.

Aussie Andy and Luci seemed to have paired off, although Luci would deny anything’s going on. A buddy of Andy’s, Mike, moved in not too long after Amy and Luci. They’re both musicians and they were nice enough to make a CD of some of their songs for me. The first song on the CD is yours truly doing “Being Old Sucks”, recorded in their room.

We (Amy, Luci and I) went back to the museum last Tuesday since it’s free after 4:30 and checked out all the Scottish History exhibits.

We also went to a ceilidh a couple of weeks ago for some traditional Scottish dancing. Fun. Since it was also Burns’ Night we also got to see the Address to the Haggis, preceded by a piper playing and leading the dish into the hall.

It snowed really hard all day yesterday so Amy, Luci, Mike, Andy, Andrew (another Aussie here for a while) and I went to the Meadows, a large flat park area near us, and played in the snow. Something like five inches of perfectly packable, throwable snow. We had a blast.

I’m going to check out this sandwich shop called Archie’s tomorrow about a job. I already put in an application at a place called Semi-Chem (a kind of drugstore) but I’m not sure if I’m going to take it, esp. if I get hired at Archie’s. Keeping me fingers crossed…