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Why is it that when I have a deadline looming it's like pulling teeth for me to write 2000 words of analysis, but at the same time I can write 5000 words of fiction no problem?

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According to Yahoo news (that venerable news source) a woman was caught crossing the Gaza border with three crocodiles tied to her body. According to the guards she looked "...strangely fat" and was sent to a female police officer to be searched. When the policewoman found the crocodiles she ran out of the room screaming. After the hubbub died down ( Read more... )

You just might be a graduate student if...

• you can analyze the significance of appliances you cannot operate.
• your office is better decorated than your apartment.
• you have ever, as a folklore project, attempted to track the progress of your own joke across the Internet.
• you are startled to meet people who neither need nor want to read.
• you have ( Read more... )

So, this is it. After nearly gour months I am packing (again) to leave Galway. Dunaras is nearly completely empty with less than 10 people still living here. It is kind of creepy seeing all the empty apartments.

At the beginning four months seemed like a long time, time enough to travel and see everything, get to know loads of people, and get ( Read more... )

Today was my last exam. It wasn't as hard as I thought but no walk in the park either. (Was international free trade more conducive to the spread of British Imperialism? Compare and contrast at least 3 different countries and give specific examples and legislation for each.) But it felt so good to walk out and know I was done, about a whole week ( Read more... )

Made it through 2 exams today. Longest day of the school year yet I swear. I never feel as though my answers to each question were full enough. I wrote approximately 2 A4 page answers for each question on both exam but I know it is not the quantity but the quality if the answer. No help for it now. Between exams I had a 'bodyguard' to ensure that I ( Read more... )

Was just reading my previous entries: October 31st in Dublin. The store did not have donoughts (do nots?) but doughnuts! And I stayed in a hotel, not a hotle. I am following in the footsteps of James Joyce ( Read more... )

I know that my entries have been relatively few. But the idea of putting in every day "Got up, showered, went to class, read, came home, made dinner, studied, went back to bed." would be tedious ad nauseum. Anyway over the next few days I will be adding backdated entries for more of my travels and other daily things. (I should be studying but this ( Read more... )