Nightshift is EVOL.

[pdragon76]

So, I haven't been around much. Bunch of overtime at work, because I'm headed back to Adelaide for ten days in a couple of weeks and I am a money-grabbing capitalist swine. And I've been on nightshift. Which is the bastion of Satan.

Although it does bring occasional hilarity in the form of sombre notes slid under cell doors:

Dear miss can

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[chocca2]

THERE YOU IS. I has missed you. *tacklesmish*

Dear miss can you arks Yarny (Unit Manager Ioannis) to come to my cell in the morning cuz they gonna smash me I hurd it threw the wolls.

Aww, they really are adorkable. I still can't stop smiling at how they call you miss. That's so damn cute.

Anyway...I has a day off *pumps fist* and will be on IM if you fancy a chat.

Otherwise write your heart out, babe! \o/

[pdragon76]

Hey baby! I fell asleep. So much for staying up all night. *facepalm*

Speak soon.

[kimmer1227]

Howdy there!

Enjoy your vampirism. :D

[pdragon76]

I always do, Kim. I always do. *taps side of nose*

[el1ie]

I come bearing gifts...just for, you know, inspiration, or breathlessness, or something like that...

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Spoilerphobes beware - don't scroll down too far, although spoilerphobe that I am - I don't think it spoils me - but everyone to their own.

[pdragon76]

EEEEEEEEEEE!! Sweaty soccer manboobs! YAY.

Thank you, hon! Much obliged. :) *fans self*

[a_phoenixdragon]

WIN, dude - missed you! Glad to know you are still in full mode, even with the vampirism threatening to do you in. Course, being a full-fledged and happy *gasp* vampire myself, I bleieve that DAY shift is the bastion of Satan. But then, I also work hotels, so O_o...

Hope you has an awesome day with political nerdery and Irish history/wank conundrums interspersed with bursts of The Lee. Yeah...that would be awesome!

*Happy!Squishes*

[pdragon76]

Thank you, babe! I can't believe you like nightshifts. I'm just too old for this crap. Srsly.

[a_phoenixdragon]

I'm well...odd in case you haven't guessed it and in a way I see it as an advantage - I get to talk to awesome people on the other side of the world, 'cause I'm awake when they are!

Nahhh, just too dayshift, lol!!

*Cooks up something garlicky*

[shakespearebint]

good luck sorting through all that Irish Nationalism shit - I have grandparents that were heavily involved in the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War and all I can say is that it's complicated and hugely emotive, even still. And the fact that TIG is from Donegal makes it doubley so as they're just over the border from the 6 counties of Northern Ireland and it's a breeding ground for raving Provos.

[pdragon76]

Dude. This stuff is taking over MY LIFE.

I know I have a tendency to be a bit...compulsive on the research when a topic strikes my fancy, but boy howdy, I have gone this with a STICK.

Part of me wants to just put it all down and forget about it because I don't even have the stinking Irish guy around anymore to discuss it with. But it's far too complicated and compelling.

Something is horribly wrong when you're reading a political text and you're shrieking and laughing and nodding your head and punching the pages shouting: "JESUS, IRELAND. JUST....HOLY CRAPOLA!"

Any must-read texts you can recommend? I will rabidly take them right now. *is a giant nerd*

[shakespearebint]

hmmm - it's been a long time since I read any of the actual history of this stuff although I do keep up with the current developments. I think anything by Tim Pat Coogan would be a good read as well as being historically accurate and as close to non-partisan as you can get if you're an Irish Catholic of a certain age (though I have heard him accused of being anti-DeValera and pro-Collins which means pro-Treaty).

Anyway good luck with your reading - and be sure to let me know if you come up with a solution for 500 years of argy-bargy - we could do with it. :-)