haitch pee dee to you
did you know that a postgrad can only check out ten books at a time from the Trinity library's collections of 4.5 million? (undergrads are limited to 4!)
BOO URNS!
this means I can't keep the for-fun ones I checked out (the Handbook of Cheese, e.g.) 'cause I'm using up all my ten on metaphors. On Thursday it'll switch to phonology, and next Tuesday it'll be something having to do with Irish. Don't kill me, but I think I'm going to "take inspiration" from a paper I wrote for Maire and talk about planned urban Gaeltachts (Belfast and there's one in Canada now). Maybe I'll compare them to unplanned ones- that is, those whose Irish never "died out" (say, places in county Kerry). Anyway, I did the research for the Belfast Gaeltacht two years ago so who's to say I can't reuse what I already learned? You do it in conversation all the time.
also, the rash is not an allergy but a virus that goes away in time. I have been prescribed a special soap to relieve it in the meantime. And the Australian lady in the pharmacy down the street knows me.
paddy's was great fun; spent the whole day with Sarah of JSoc. First off, it was SUNNY OMG. Parade, food market for turkey mole (yum!), ceili mor where I taught Asians how to waltz, walked past the funfair (but for 4 quid a ride we weren't moved), nap and dinner at mine, session at Kielys. Cormac was there, bless his heart. I think I do have a crush on him. Sarah approves. Downside being his primary location in Cork, of course. As for Peter, I think he has a girlfriend! Anyway he was certainly standing close to this girl Niamh. Also, all of a sudden when I saw him last night, he began to look grown-up. Always before he's been an overgrown twelve-year-old, but suddenly last night I saw the mature-looking Peter begin to emerge. How weird to notice one's own friends grow up.
BOO URNS!
this means I can't keep the for-fun ones I checked out (the Handbook of Cheese, e.g.) 'cause I'm using up all my ten on metaphors. On Thursday it'll switch to phonology, and next Tuesday it'll be something having to do with Irish. Don't kill me, but I think I'm going to "take inspiration" from a paper I wrote for Maire and talk about planned urban Gaeltachts (Belfast and there's one in Canada now). Maybe I'll compare them to unplanned ones- that is, those whose Irish never "died out" (say, places in county Kerry). Anyway, I did the research for the Belfast Gaeltacht two years ago so who's to say I can't reuse what I already learned? You do it in conversation all the time.
also, the rash is not an allergy but a virus that goes away in time. I have been prescribed a special soap to relieve it in the meantime. And the Australian lady in the pharmacy down the street knows me.
paddy's was great fun; spent the whole day with Sarah of JSoc. First off, it was SUNNY OMG. Parade, food market for turkey mole (yum!), ceili mor where I taught Asians how to waltz, walked past the funfair (but for 4 quid a ride we weren't moved), nap and dinner at mine, session at Kielys. Cormac was there, bless his heart. I think I do have a crush on him. Sarah approves. Downside being his primary location in Cork, of course. As for Peter, I think he has a girlfriend! Anyway he was certainly standing close to this girl Niamh. Also, all of a sudden when I saw him last night, he began to look grown-up. Always before he's been an overgrown twelve-year-old, but suddenly last night I saw the mature-looking Peter begin to emerge. How weird to notice one's own friends grow up.