I got the flat I was hoping for. A shared house in Sunday's Well, right at the top of the Shakey Bridge (a Cork landmark). sharing with 3 women in their later 20s-early 30s in a nice sized house with a HUGE but wildly overgrown garden up the hill in the back ( Read more... )

today is my 2 year anniverary in Ireland ( Read more... )

I'm going out tonight for dinner with 25 friends, taking over the dining room of this little trattoria run by a family of brothers from Italy, cooking like their mama taught them. Then off for drinks at a newish bar called Cleavers, which used to be a butcher shop ( Read more... )

I borrowed a friend's boxed set of the Godfather Trilogy last week, and it occured to me I have never tried Clemnza's recipe for pasta sauce. So tonight, I did ( Read more... )

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I need to write about my friends here, like Andrew and Tom and Kimberley and Natalie. I need to write about the nutters who I laugh at and with and almost get in fights with and for. I need to write about the work coming and going and potentials for work. I need to write about the begrudgery of Cork and how hard it is to rise above it here. I ( Read more... )

the weather has turned decidedly spring-like! My ankle is finally healing enough to let me stand on my tiptoes and take a bit of weight, so I think it's safe to start training lightly again. But, since the weather is so nice, and I am working from home now, I can't be arsed to get to the Mardyke Arena gym all the way across town just for a ( Read more... )

I'm feeling nostalgic, or just missing bits of LA...7 drunken nights at O'Briens main st...deciding between Johnny's pastrami or Tito's tacos...dive bars like the drawing room or the blue room or hunanos...taking trojan out for a walk to Fred 62 and letting the ladies come to me (and him, the big cutie)...cruising past the queues at places like the ( Read more... )

so yesterday, my client in Dublin confirmed the plans for a trip to the States...leaving tomorrow morning from Dublin! so I am on the train up tonight and won't be back until March 7. I'll be in SF and San Jose most of the time, and will ahve some free time on the weekend to catch up with old friends. Hard to imagine, I haven't been there for ( Read more... )

was in scotland last weekend for the first 6 Nations rugby match of the season. Ireland won handily, 36-6. twas a great weekend, Edinburgh is a gorgeous city ( Read more... )