i've decided that for the time being i'm only going to read novels written by women. it seems that (for the moment at least) when i pick up a book written by a man, (particularly men from the early twentieth/ late nineteenth centuries), all they do is make me really angry. i just finished "unless" by carol shields, and now i'm reading "the stone ( Read more... )

i just ordered a SAD lamp. i'm very excited about this cause i get really sad (get it, SAD!?!) in the winter in ireland. (btw, SAD stands for Seasonal Affective Disorder.) i've been wanting one of these fellows for quite some time and am really quite pleased with myself for finally getting one ( Read more... )

it's lonely when you're on the computer at 3.56 in the morning cause you can't sleep and you know that your fiance will be writing you soon (since it's five hours ahead there and he always writes between half eight and half nine), and you're going to be leaving your room and home soon (like in hours), so because of all of the above you start ( Read more... )

there aren't stars in dublin. well, clearly the stars are still in the sky, but you can't see them cause of the light pollution. i'm going to miss seeing the stars, although due to circumstances (and lack of easily accessible rooftop viewing) i haven't seen them as much as i usually do. also, it's too cold there for singing night bugs. i'm going ( Read more... )

i bought silk online and it got here day before yesterday. the color: deep brown. it looks pretty draped on bodies ( Read more... )

i just read over previous entries, like entries from years ago. i feel off now. it's the kind of thing that makes you want to reach out and use a phrase like 'life is strange', which it is, clearly. but that simplifies it too much.

life is really fucking strange.

(gotta love the creative process.)

-i'm writing and illustrating a children's story called 'the tallest giraffe'. i never knew i could draw giraffes. her nams is sophie and she's too tall and quiet for the other giraffes to hear her. it's pretty and i like it. (i always thought these pretty creative things were isloated to pretty creative girl types. i didn't know i could do ( Read more... )

i'm reading Cunt and i really like it. (v)

that's so sad. i'm sorry michael. my thoughts are with you, wherever you are. x

sad but true: i have been unable to secure funding to return to trinity this year. i have three forths of a degree and i'm very much in love with a boy who will be attending cambridge in the fall. it will be ok somehow i know, life is funny like that. i'll be helping my sister look after devon while finishing up my physics degree (which should ( Read more... )