could be better, could be worse
today:
flu shot (figure it's for the best what with this foreign environment i'm in, as well as me now being one of the at-risk populations -- go assmar)
fees office to get some of the required literature for Gardai registration, as well as an undergrad-loan-payment deferment form signed
concert at the National Gallery with Alon: the National Chamber Choir with a special guest conductor, Paul Hillier (A says he's famous). Tickets were E5 for students. It was a 50-minute program, and it was absolutely lovely.
After, we walked through a WWF(the wildlife fund, not the wrestling federation)-sponsored wildlife photography exhibition in St Stephen's Green, then discussed Lauridsen and other "urk-harmony" music at Tower Records. I saw an ad for Ratatouille on a bus. This makes me really happy, because I'd just been thinking of that movie recently and wanting to see it again. On October 12, I will be able to. Bonus just learned from IMDb: we get Golden Compass two days early! Suck on that!
So then was a ling-based library orientation, and afterwards tea and biscuits (and here was me hoping there would be wine). I chatted with Laura and Louise who I'd met on previous days, and met Richard and John and someone else, as well as professors O'Rourke and Singleton.
On my way out, I came across the ceili in Front Square, sponsored by an Cumann Gaelach and St. Vincent de Paul. Get this, droogs -- I only stayed for one dance. It didn't feel the same as a good aul' UCD time. Anyway, my shoes were not the right sort for dancing on cobblestones, so I went home feeling ambivalent about returning. and I didn't.
but what I DID do was WATCH THE ROCKIES WIN AGAIN thanks to Yahoo sports, whose page auto-reloads every 30 seconds. Amazing!
other than that, Jeremy and I are agreed to go out tomorrow night. I have to try this strawberry beer the Porterhouse is advertising. And tomorrow I plan to get my bank account started so that I can visit the Gardai on Saturday morning.
flu shot (figure it's for the best what with this foreign environment i'm in, as well as me now being one of the at-risk populations -- go assmar)
fees office to get some of the required literature for Gardai registration, as well as an undergrad-loan-payment deferment form signed
concert at the National Gallery with Alon: the National Chamber Choir with a special guest conductor, Paul Hillier (A says he's famous). Tickets were E5 for students. It was a 50-minute program, and it was absolutely lovely.
After, we walked through a WWF(the wildlife fund, not the wrestling federation)-sponsored wildlife photography exhibition in St Stephen's Green, then discussed Lauridsen and other "urk-harmony" music at Tower Records. I saw an ad for Ratatouille on a bus. This makes me really happy, because I'd just been thinking of that movie recently and wanting to see it again. On October 12, I will be able to. Bonus just learned from IMDb: we get Golden Compass two days early! Suck on that!
So then was a ling-based library orientation, and afterwards tea and biscuits (and here was me hoping there would be wine). I chatted with Laura and Louise who I'd met on previous days, and met Richard and John and someone else, as well as professors O'Rourke and Singleton.
On my way out, I came across the ceili in Front Square, sponsored by an Cumann Gaelach and St. Vincent de Paul. Get this, droogs -- I only stayed for one dance. It didn't feel the same as a good aul' UCD time. Anyway, my shoes were not the right sort for dancing on cobblestones, so I went home feeling ambivalent about returning. and I didn't.
but what I DID do was WATCH THE ROCKIES WIN AGAIN thanks to Yahoo sports, whose page auto-reloads every 30 seconds. Amazing!
other than that, Jeremy and I are agreed to go out tomorrow night. I have to try this strawberry beer the Porterhouse is advertising. And tomorrow I plan to get my bank account started so that I can visit the Gardai on Saturday morning.