I’m baaaaaack ( Read more... )

So that job I mentioned?  I ended up dating a coworker from it starting last August, shortly after that last post.  We're still together and everything has gone great.  Who knew the love of my life would be a divorced single dad of two, nine years older than me?  I'm totally in the 9 to 5 grind with no end in sight, and that's fine with me, because ( Read more... )

So I have this habit of groaning in this unbearable loud grunting painful moaning noise at work.  Sometimes it's because students are driving me crazy.  Often it's because my boss is driving me crazy.  But I realized that when a coworker told me, after one of my dreadful groans, that I had better get used to it because I "have 20 more years of this ( Read more... )

Ireland seems like such a distant memory now.  I don't think about it in the way I used to.  Meaning the detailed memories of emotions, places, and specific memories seem like they're slipping away from me somehow.  I should have started writing about Ireland sooner.  I still really haven't.

I'm so wrapped up in my job it's insane.  Finally we hired ( Read more... )

I didn't know that you could be heartbroken when you haven't been in love until recently.  I cried in bed before I went to sleep about Simon the last two nights.  I remember how miserable he was after he dumped me, but I would still do it all over again for another fun evening with him, and I am getting teary-eyed just thinking about it, and the ( Read more... )

After I went to County Wicklow for a weekend toward the end of my stay in Dublin, I posted a picture of a sign near the entrance to a national park that read "No anti-social behaviour," which I found funny because Americans associate anti-social behavior with loners, extreme introverts, and those with awkward social skills (while in Europe it's ( Read more... )

So many things jolt unexpected memories of the world that is so far away, yet was once so engrained into my being.  Songs, phrases, book pasages, a couple alcoholic drinks, bring countless unexpected thoughts long-forgotten that somehow find their way into my mind for no known reason ( Read more... )

Today I had a most pleasant lunch with my old RA from my sophomore year of college.  We had a good chat about travel, writing, and this beastly bitch from our floor that everyone hated.  Going back to the first two items in that list, she is going to Switzerland and Germany for two months to... uh... well she hasn't gotten that far yet, but she's ( Read more... )

If I don't start doing it, I never will!  I'm posting Irish memories before they escape me.

In Ireland, there's the Metro, an Irish daily rag.  Part news, part entertainment trash.  (And speaking of entertainment trash, it disgusted me how many tabloids there were in Dublin and London... and I'm from L.A.!)  Anyway, Irish "papers" are much less ( Read more... )

It's been almost a YEAR since AprilsEuroTrip began!  But enough of every blog entry talking about time.

I have my first real job.  Now I'm working in housing at an art school here in L.A.  I'm glad to "permanently" settle here... I was SO ready to live alone again (the job is a live-in position and gives me my own apartment) and I was not at all ( Read more... )