Well  I finally did NaNoWriMo. Have been saying that I would participate in it for years now and I finally got my ass in gear, dusted off the copybook that contained my story that I had started as an undergraduate and started working on typing it out during the month.

The first week went ok for me, had little to no problems. Then came Sunday, the ( Read more... )

Well, it’s summer. Had a tough time shaking a bad flu. Only starting to feel ok now. Started a round of multivitamins and vitamin C. Am making sure I don’t get hit as bad again by flu. Has left me with a lot of annoying things to sort out.

What a week we had here, very historic. First the Queen visited and spent four days here. In the middle of ( Read more... )

This Galway Arts Festival was kind of special for me, it marks ten years since I first went to anything connected with the festival. As I remember, it was a little bit daunting and I didn’t know what to expect, but when I got to go, I first discovered how vibrant the city gets in those two weeks of the festival. Not that I’m saying that the Film ( Read more... )

Was working hard this week after taking the Bank Holiday off, am off tomorrow. So was not going to update. Am having a 'Hamlet' refresher at the moment, am reading the RSC version as I own the complete works since last year and listening to the Anton Lesser audiobook, i got the audiobook and the Kevin Kleine version on DVD when I was studying it ( Read more... )