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mizkit

holiday? what’s a holiday?

Apr 21, 2008 17:26

We went by the Mardyke Arena, which is the University College Cork’s gym facility, to find out if they allow day passes to the swimming pool, which I suspect is the only pool in Cork worth swimming in*. They don’t, or rather, they do, but only if you come as the guest of someone with a regular pass and who won’t leave your side for the duration of ( Read more... )

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esperalore April 21 2008, 20:58:11 UTC

I totally understand you about the pool; I swam only one year of highschool, but six years or so club (usa swimming). When I was a kid, my brother and I would butterfly down a pool top speed (and run anybody over who got in the way) to clear it out so that we could actually swim. It doesn't work very well now that I'm older and slow and too embarrassed to even try butterfly most of the time.

"I'm only fast compared to most people"I usually say "I'm only fast compared to people who don't swim", but its essentially the same thing. And I know just how slow I swim compared to serious swimmers, since my brother swam collegiate with olympians ( ... )

logrusboy April 21 2008, 21:39:44 UTC

Add to Things To Be Thankful For List:
- Not being the instructor at an MFA creative writing program when one C. E. Murphy wanders in with her ten (or probably more by then) published novels.
- Somebody is out there trying to keep Catie from breaking herself. Remember, the goal is to do almost too much.

mizkit April 21 2008, 21:41:41 UTC

Yeah, that's the basic problem with getting an MFA: there is *no way* I would want to jump through their hoops.

logrusboy April 22 2008, 02:22:50 UTC

I knew someone in a program creative writing program once where the instructor told them if they got anything published during the term, they automatically got top marks. I recommend that you find a program you'll find more challenging. :)

mizkit April 22 2008, 08:45:11 UTC

Either that or that's exactly the kind of program I *should* be in. The kind that will basically look at my body of published work and go, "Oh, okay, fine, here's your MFA." :)

Anthropologist mikecosgrave April 22 2008, 12:10:19 UTC

Barra is as close as UCC gets to an anthropologist, AFAIK.

http://www.ucc.ie/en/DepartmentsCentresandUnits/Archaeology/Staff/DrBarraODonnabhain111/