Boy are my journal writing skills ridiculous; although this is pretty good-usually it ends up being around a year between entries. Anyway....I'm sitting in work at the bookstore with the bosses gone (yippee!) trying to catch up on my life. Ha! Well, this semester has probably been the lowest level of homework activity ever for me-not in terms of ( Read more... )

This weekend was especially exciting in Dublin. In case any of you have heard about the events of Saturday in Dublin on the news or anything, I was there! Let me elaborate. On Saturday, as I was innocently shopping with my flatmate, we came out of a store and starting walking down O'Connell street (one of the main streets of Dublin, that includes ( Read more... )

So last night, I spent my first night in my apartment! I moved in yesterday afternoon. It is located right behind Trinity College in the city centre-close to Grafton Street (a big pedestrian shopping street), Lemon (my favourite restaurant that serves mostly crepes!), and Temple Bar (the area I was living in for my first week and a half) among ( Read more... )

Quick post-I promise Michael, I'm doing stuff other than just spending time on Livejournal. However being here alone, as great as it is, makes me crave any contact I can have with friendly faces, so....Anyway, today I got a job today! I'm working in the headquarters of the Allied Irish Bank, just south of the city centre. I get to dress up every ( Read more... )

Sitting in Galway now, on the west coast of the island. I'm definitely glad I didn't make more of an attempt to live here, as I was originally planning. The city is much smaller than I wanted, and it would be really hard to find a job and apartment here. My mood could be affected by the fact that I am sick (hopefully just with a sore throat and ( Read more... )

My third night in Dublin was by far the absolute best night in Ireland, and probably one of the most fun of my life, I'd go as far as to say. So after moving into my new room at the hostel yesterday, I could see by the belongings of my roommates that they were probably all guys and British of some sort. I went out and met up with my high school ( Read more... )

Last night was another fun night. I went to dinner at an awesome crepe place that I will totally be going to every chance I get. Then after walking around a bit, getting to know the area a little better, I went to a pub in the hopes of meeting up with my friend from high school. I got there around 10:00pm, yet there was no sign of him. After awhile ( Read more... )

So, not as detailed a livejournal as I should be writing, but I don't have much time on this computer. I'm in a cafe in Temple Bar, Dublin, having arrived yesterday. Had an awesome time in London with my sister's friend and Cambridge with Ian and his family. It was a great preparation being with familiar people for the situation I am in right now. ( Read more... )

Today I got up at 5am to take my grandmother to the airport (1.5 hours away in Montana) and therefore couldn't function well for the rest of the day. However, I was able to rally my energy tolerably for a double feature. My parents and I went to see "Casanova" after lunch, then when that ended, we immediately snuck into the theatre next store, ( Read more... )

Slowly trying to trudge through that is becoming finals "week." At this point I have my 15-page junior paper due Tuesday(it's actually pretty important-that makes me very nervous), U.S. history final on Monday, East African History final on Wednesday, and Art History final on Friday (Dec. 16). In the meantime, I have to do some more Christmas ( Read more... )