jens has been gone for five hours and I miss him already. I am making a list of things I should or can do this week to occupy myself, as I'll only be working one shift per day as far as I know. Now it's sunny and warm out so I'm going to sunbathe on the roof terrace with Salman Rushdie and a new CD, wine and cheese and crackers. Quel snobberie ( Read more... )

tomorrow will mark my first May 25th in Ireland ( Read more... )

GOOD DAY GOOD DAY

( rambly babble: teaching )

happy birthday to mr. david L, erstwhile cairo boy. as we are on speaking-often terms these days, he received a skype call this evening and was happily surprised to hear it was me. area code 000 is the intarwebz. it was cut short, though, since he has a cold so every time he speaks he starts coughing ( Read more... )

ugh, my network password expired and IS Services has NO clemency. tried to change it this morning, with no luck. I've been booted off the network with no hope of getting on until Monday, when IS opens again. jeremy is now lending me his computer while he and Roisin eat ( Read more... )

last night as Jeremy and I were walking in after a pint, some security dude stopped us: "all right, which one of yez the resident ( Read more... )

One of our new canvassers has a roommate whose family is in Peru and may have been hit by the enormous earthquake there. I don't know if it's corny to say that my thoughts are over there, but they are. Also to mention: the mine cave-in in Utah. Seismic activity is happenin' all over, man. The world is a scary place ( Read more... )

yesterday: ( crew... a lot of babble )

( farmers' market things, now redundant )