rob left today. his room is a fucking shambles; we have uneaten processed ham on the floor, stained linens on the bed, fucking bags of shit everywhere. this is not the way to keep friends, buddy; i don't care that you were mad about the price of this sublet. The smell of smoke last night was also not pleasant, nor was your disruptive laugh or ( Read more... )

internet at home is on some of the time. As of yet, it often resets and leaves us having to Repair it every few minutes. Says it can't find a certificate to get me on the network, but gets me on anyhow. It's a pain to reload, but OH MAN it's nice when it works ( Read more... )

The internet peeps are coming tomorrow morning! I started my class Tuesday night and they're wonderful, which is such a relief. The party's on for Saturday.

I met with Jeff yesterday, and he reassured all of my doubts. I've found a hypothesis for this paper and a topic for my PhD as well. It's about ( discourse markers in code switching )

Rob just told me that Tim Russert had a heart attack and died. I don't remember what he did within news stuff, but the name is known to me ( Read more... )

interview at karolina's school this afternoon! No response from the others, but K says two teachers just left her place so they're desperate for teachers. My interview's at 3 and I need to print out a scan of my college degree ( Read more... )

I just had TCD's psychiatrist warn me that if I want to get pregnant some day I'm going to need to stop taking Ritalin, so I should wean myself off of it now. I thought that whole "we want to discourage prescribing drugs that could harm the theoretical fetus" thing was local to the States. Seriously, don't tell me I'm pre-pregnant when I'm a) on ( Read more... )

I have tendonitis in my toe. It's been raining the past two days, and akakat is here, and she's agreed to sublet in our place after she moves out of UCD next week, and according to facebook no one is showing up to our housewarming except Rossa, and I still have to get my life in order. But I'm moving everything tomorrow. I have almost all my stuff in ( Read more... )

oh man. the check from work came through. I am sorted. Even better if Candice can chip in her 400, but even if she can't I have enough to cover that, live until the check from invigilating, and by then pray I have a new job. And we'll have income from subletters, too- Rob might take one of the rooms, and we have a response from some Italian ( Read more... )

I've started to move into the new apartment. Of course, work couldn't give me my full paycheck, they still had emergency tax out, because Revenue registered me with a misspelling in my last name so work couldn't track me down. Honestly ( Read more... )

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