Blogaroo

Note: prepare for a backlog of “written offline” blog posts. I’ll backdate them to the correct day, don’t worry, they won’t attack you all at once. The internet has been flaky: Word, and free wireless for the price of a bottle of juice, are my friends!

Last night, following our mealtime Scrubs, we flicked through the channels. We always do this, and it’s almost always Top Gear on (Dave, do you want to consider showing something - anything - else?), but last night we ended up on Channel Five - who knew it was still alive, albeit in a rebranded Five style - and It Pays To Watch. Basic premise: change your bank, insurer and lunch and save some money. It’s a bit of a “no shit, Sherlock” situation, but one fact jumped out at me:

Times the price of one bottle of Coke by 250 - that’s how much your daily coke at work is really costing you. Admittedly, being a full-time student means I do way less days in uni than 250, but even a liberal estimate of 100 days (2 ten-week semesters, not including days spent slogging in the lab or library) means a quick, “oh, I’ll get a Coke Zero, that’ll wake me up” is costing me £85 a year.

Scary.