News! That’s me, and now Reilly, with respective McJobs secured to tie us over financially till academia takes over yet again. I’ll be in Croker for the Summer, spearheading a new Stadium initiative in the Premium section, and Herr Reilly will be putting his A&E brief from this year to good use, with an internship in the Affordable Homes Partnership. Both will be pretty challenging, but I guess if we can finish this year unscathed (-ish, my patience is a little frayed at this stage…) we’ll manage anything! It seems we’re the reason there are term limits, we’d stay here forever if we could. UCD days are now less common, we’re venturing out of our little cocoon slowly but surely, and my integration back into the real world outside of Belfield is going swimmingly.

Plans afoot include a cheese-tastic weekend of Westlife and Celine (don’t judge me, freebies would have you there too!), a quick jaunt home to KK for the Cat Laughs and finally, the Mini Marathon for me on Monday. My training has been intense; I get up, I walk from the fridge to the couch to get my own food, the remote is not being used, and it’s been almost 6 weeks since we were in E&C for chicken wings. I meant business when I signed up for this baby.

I have, however, joined Curves in Donnybrook, the noughties equivalent of aerobics, and survived a whole class of it this morning! I was a tad out of the social loop however, unlike the yummiest of the mummies present, I don’t own a weekend home in Wexford or have a little dorling doing the big LC. That said, I really enjoyed it, the atmosphere is very hairdressers (”Are ya goin’ anywhere nice on your holidays, love?”) meets Weight Watchers (”Jesus fuck-me Christ, that chocolate cake last night was, loike, a thousand points”), but it’s quick and simple and suits my life at the minute. I’ll keep you updated on my progress! Laugh as you might (you know who you are, certain male friends of mine) at the thoughts of me being in such a scene, but damn it, I want to be able to run up the stairs and not have a coronary!

As if that wasn’t enough Y chromosome action for me today, I’m also heading to see SATC later in Fundrum! Wickedly excited, I shall report back with a review, but not the plot, fear not!

JHRPS - Beautiful little nugget of a news story here …spot on. JHR has been known to fill them in South Kerry himself! Great man for the first preferences!