Archive for February, 2008

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

On the personal phenomenon of persistent lookalike-bumping-into

First he was in the Science block, then he was outside a theatre in Arts, then he was in the Student Centre, and then back on the concourse outside Arts again. And it’s not even 6:30pm.
Except it wasn’t him at all.
I often find that no matter how topsy-turvy a day in my life might be, [...]

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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

I’ve spent most of today…

…uploading old press releases from 2001-2004 onto a new Press blog I’m doing for the new USI website.
Tedious is not the word.

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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

“Black People Love Us!”

Meet Johnny and Sally - the average couple, just like you.
We grew up in your average neighborhoods doing the usual things that all people do: swimming, golf, horseback riding, arts and crafts, gardening, building treehouses, mowing the lawn, selling lemonade, etc.
Except there’s one rather exceptional thing about Johnny and Sally - and that is the [...]

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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Update-a-thon…

It’s only just struck me that the last post before this on the blog was entitled “today, Feb 1st”. Which clearly needs addressing so call me tokenistic but here’s what I’ve been at.
Feb 2nd: Ireland vs Italy in Croke Park. What a dire, drab game with a dire, drab atmosphere. The weather was murky, the [...]

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Friday, February 1st, 2008

Email conversation with my mother, today, Feb 1st

From: gav AT gavreilly DOT com
To: m—-@s——-.ie
Date: 1/2/08, 10.33
What weight did you say Dad was again when you got married?
From: m—-@s——-.ie
To: gav AT gavreilly DOT com
Date: 1/2/08, 10.47
11.2 …so what have you hit now?
From: gav AT gavreilly DOT com
To: m—-@s——-.ie
Date: 1/2/08, 10.52
11.2 ?
Oh no.
From: m—-@s——-.ie
To: gav AT gavreilly DOT com
Date: 1/2/08, 11.06
Well,,,,,,unless you end up [...]

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