Tuesday

it snowed!

Today

it was sunny and frosty at the same time.

Dublin, day 2

(Sunday)

St. Patrick's




Guiness brewery




Trinity college- book o' Kells, long hall, etc. (really awesome things that you can't take pictures of)

National history museum (also not allowed photos but I took one anyway. That seems to be a problem with me.)


and giant banana-nutella crepe for snack-dinner

Dublin, day 1

(Saturday)

Dublin castle:




Chester Beatty Library (including illegal photo of the exhibit):




Leprechaun museum:



(I got a sticker and a button for making a purdy drawing!)

The Church bar:

Gobble gobble gobble

Still sorting through all the pictures from the Peg-Sneha invasion, so for now we'll skip to the middle for turkey day photos.

(I was looking extra fabulous):


Kim and I made turkeys during creative writing:


we had a fancy setup and people had to eat as they came. It was wild. Then everyone left.




Devin fell asleep.

Registration

I signed up for spring classes tonight. Some of the stuff I wanted was all filled up, and one of them I couldn't find but emailed the teacher and found it, and one of them I couldn't find and emailed the teacher but never got a response, and lots of them I couldn't take because they were all scheduled at the same time. Emily and I had a very high-strung half hour of us both trying to register but freaking out about all the complications.
Anyway, on Monday mornings I have art history, which is about Medieval manuscripts and Paris and has field trips to some other places, and on Monday nights I have my Publishing class, which is graduate level and therefore scary.
And then I have Tuesdays off, and Wednsdays are Monsters in the morning (Anatomy of), and ughhhsodull-Survey Lit 2 in the afternoon. (The ughhh part I added. because survey lit 1 was a complete snorefest. And it had expensive books.)
Then Thursday and Friday are free, but Saturdays I have studio all day with Emily in Beginning Etching! Which was the only 5th class we found that fit both our studio credits and availabilities and wasn't completely ridiculous. But seriously-- who takes class on Saturday?

And at one point I got really excited because I thought the famous science-credit class on food was open but it turned out I was looking at the wrong semester.


So that's that. It's really late. I should probably go to bed. Mummy and Sneha come tomorrow! Or today.. can't really tell.

Dance lessons

Last night was Nathalie's bye-bye party, so we all went down to Logue's for a drink


and found out it was ceili dancing night! So we got an impromptu lesson



from one of the (very patient) regulars. Then the rest o' them had a dance

(and they, reasurringly, also screw up a lot).

Work work work

(taking a break)

Some cool clouds

baked cookies without a recipe. Turns out I actually made a cake.

3 days

I've been informed that my blog has been cranky lately, so instead of writing what I was originally going to say, instead: mom comes in 3 days. (well, closer to 2 at this point)

which means I have to do my whole mixed media project tomorrow since I won't be around to work on it over the weekend. That's like, super early. It's weird. I don't think I know not to procastinate.

Chelsea promised me pie though :)

What?

Woke up this morning and the house looked like this.

No marshmallows or canned pumpkin either

This country does not have eggnog. GET ME OUT OF HERE.

On my third cup of ginger tea with honey.

No more Gordon-- he's left us for the States. Today's guest teacher talked a lot about books on the Burren and took us around Yeats places.

Though first, we stopped off again at the abbey we visited last week, only with better weather this time.


Then onto Coole Park (Lady Gregory owned it or something? I wasn't really paying attention) Anyway, Yeats spent a bunch of time there 'cause he and the L.G. were pretty tight.




There were some deer...


And it rained and sunned at the same time...


Just as we thought we were done for the day, it was off to the Keats tower



Then Robert made fun of us a bit for being cold and we went home.

[insert ill pun here]

Big storm today. Unlike the "hurriane" winds we supposedly had last Sunday that were just a big letdown, today's weather is unpleasantly stormy. We suspect the power will go out later tonight.

The cat is acting oddly today.

Yesterday was school trip to Galway to look at the Tulca art festival stuffs. There was a (long and winding and backtracking) tour of art venues and another disappointing night at Live @ 8. Or so that's what I've heard.

You see, upon arrival at the Galway art center, after a brief perusal of some so-so art in a very cold building, I left. With Emily, Emily, and Maggie. Aine hadn't show up yet for her talk/tour, so we wandered down the street into an Indian shop, and after about 10 minutes of looking at scarves, wandered back out again in search of a cafe, where we ran into Aine going back towards the center. She came over to us and said we'd all meet up in about 10 minutes and we could get a cup of coffee. "Sure," we said.

Strolling up Shop Street, we poked our noses into Boots (a health and beauty supply store, not a shoe one) to get hair conditioner and smell all the cologne, then out again and kitty-corner up the street to the store with the Christmas display in the window pulled us in. By the time we emerged from there it was ten after one, and we realized we were definately not going to be going on the tour at this point (but having to qualms about it), and further realizing that Galway is tiny and we had a high change of running into the rest of the group, we headed away from town for lunch.

Across Eire Square we stopped into a pub, sat down, and then left because it was smelly. Further down the street we went in, sat down, and then left because it was smelly. Even further down we found one that wasn't smelly, and got some scrumptious hot meals and tea for 9 euro.

(That's chicked kiev, garlic mashed potatoes, cooked carrots, scalloped potatoes, some sort of veggie (turnip, maybe?) in "fry" form, and fried potato.

After lunch, we split, the Emilys going back towards town for shopping, and Maggie and I walked out to the theater to catch a movie. The only one we wanted to see was playing 2 hours later so we ended up watching Due Date, choice via coin flip. It was pretty retarded, but at least the ticket prices are cheaper than in America.
Theaters look the same though..


Then we went back to town too, to see if we could find Emily^2 at the mall. We did, along with the rest of the group, including Aine who we, with the same impecible timing, ran into as we were exiting Pennys. (Apparently she only seemed to notice Emily Day's absence, however. Muahahaha.)

The envy of everyone who had to suffer through the (predictably) uninteresting tour (the Irish are pretty shit artists), we picked up Arianna and left the mall for dinner at a fancy bar (name forgotten but looked like this).



I had nachos.

Then I got really bad pains all up and down my torso and that kind of ruined the evening. (still haven't figured out what the hell is wrong, but practically had meds thrown at me by helpful housemates, so doing better today.)

Anyway, a little before eight we went to the live @ 8 bar where they started an hour late and had a million "technical difficulties" showing everything (most of the videos had to be restarted or kept sticking) and I wanted to bang my head through a wall because a) they should have worked this out ahead of the actual event, and b) it was clear none of the people running it knew anything about how to work computers and that was probably half their problem. (and c) it was a freaking mac)
Plus the videos were either really boring, really stupid, or really pointless. The only one I can give any sort of credit to was the last one we saw, which was about 8 minutes of a girl trying to thread a needle, and that only gets points for completely captivating all of us through annoyance. It was super hard not to just scream, "If it didn't work the first 60 times you tried it that way, it won't work the next. Get a bloody needle threader, you dumb bitch!"

Girl had patience. Id've just given up by that point.