Spent the weekend in Corrymeela hiking (in absolutly perfect weather) and looking at waterfalls. It was nice, but hard at times, both in the hard-because-I'm-growing ways and in the hard-because-I-think-people-are-dicks ways. Occasionally, both at once ( Read more... )

Today was hard. But I bitched to Alex and ate carbs and everything got better. I believe chips and curry is quite possibly the best comfort food ever invented, even if I do suspect it's highly un-vegetarian ( Read more... )

So I don't know if it's just the University of Ulster, or just N. Ireland, or if this encompasses the UK in general (Arpi, Matt and Kate: any thoughts on this would be appreciated), but the academic system here is just remarkably weird ( Read more... )

Sometimes, being 9 time zones away from your problems just isn't far enough.

Especially when, in spite of all my claiming to disagree, I know fully well my problems are my own fucking fault.

Shit.

Last night a bunch of us went to a gay bar called Pepe's. I don't care what anyone says, a gay bar being named Pepe's is awesome.

It was good. Dancing and meeting people and fun. I'm fairly certain that Pepe's is the only bar on the entire island of Ireland that doesn't have any real beer on tap. However, there is a wide variety of bacardi ( Read more... )

So this is my second full day in L/Derry, which I can already tell is the most amazing city in the world, I just wish I had more of a chance to see it so far ( Read more... )

I passed my economics class.

That is all.

I never thought this last week would be over. But somehow, I finnished finals and term papers, packed up my junk and put it in storage, cleaned up and moved out of my appartment (we got our full deposit back!) and ended up in California, hanging out with Claire and Rachel and watching Claire not pack ( Read more... )

Last night I went to the vigil at First Friends for the 4 CPT members that were taken hostage. While I was there and was suppose to be holding them in the light, all I could concentrate on was my own shit. I kept getting off track and concentrating on doom with my family and gloom with my friends and all this other shit (seeming to be) centered ( Read more... )

I feel the need to give some opportunity for action (albiet incredibly small) on both of these cases, since they've both been in my mind pretty constantly lately. While it's amazingly dangerous to go around signing internet petitions and think that's enough to absolve you from any responsibility. But it's probably even more dangerous to poo-poo ( Read more... )