Every Day is Election Day

As you may know, our housemate Colin is off in New York at the moment visiting his old housemates, and has been taking some fohos while there. He’s just started posting his stuff in his Flickr and it’s pretty great stuff.

Have a look - I’m sure there’ll be more in the next week or so before Colin returns next weekend.

Another day, another dollar. (Less every day mind, was bloody sick when I heard this this morning.)

Was a late one last night, we all stayed up to watch President Hughie on One to One with Aine Lawlor (you know you’re a hack when…) and I only got a chance to grab dinner at the absurd hour of 11pm, so I was wired till all hours. And then something very exciting happened: someone came to visit us. I can’t disclose more till Troy allows me to, but trust me, I was excited and you will be too once you know the circumstances. Let’s just say the garden might yet get some green fingers, eh, Troy?!

Attention span isn’t the Mae West at the minute. I’m so scared of unravelling good study/class work done that I’m trying to surround myself with only vacuous nonsense to prioritise my learningz. Everything is casenames. I’m trying new memory techniques for them, like every shop on Grafton St. has a case name associated with Constitutional cases, and I’m trying to connect Contract cases as a hurling team, lining out from goals to corner forward to will it to stay in my noggin’. Rough stuff.

When I really, and I mean really needed the laughs though last night, my unlikely knight in shining arbour was Leo Varadkar. Anyone see Q&A last night? A woman in the audience was beckoned by Bowman to contribute to the discussion and she started with a “I can’t believe I’m saying this… but I agree with Leo Varadkar…” and as she said that her face exploded with embarrassment and shock that she had ever verbalised such a thing, that she covered her face in her hands going, “Oh Jesus, I forget what I was gonna say now!” Oh, it was priceless.

I think I have to go home for another funeral. So many of them at the minute, just hard to take. Hate them, I always feel like I’m intruding on the immediate group of family/friends. Unless you are part of that group… is there anything worse? Such waste of lives out there at the minute. Dreadful.

We’re off to Kerry for a family wedding in late August (my plea yesterday worked a treat) and I have to sort accommodation for us… this is more a reminder than news. Sorry, I’m that much hitting the ground in spots, writing at all must include to-do reminders… please be sure to hit me when I put laundry collection or bill paying here. Ever. (That’s just one graituitous one for Reilly for tonight. :-P)

Leinster Final Sunday. The Wexicans have all been sorted with tickets. I may even lend them a lung of support.

In the meanwhile, throw your eyes over these beauts…

• This made me laugh so much on Friday: DOD continues to rock my world in quite a gentle way (like a delicious cake as opposed to a bag of drugs).
• Twenty Major tells it how it is… or how the courts should see it.
• Hello Kitty, goodbye childhood.
• I really, really REALLY want to go to this but exams would be a loomin’ around then! Guilt is a terrible thing.
• Deal reached between Google and Viacom it seems…
• Shameless plug for the lads at home, but if I can’t get to Kilkenny to see this, I’ll be going to this.
• And before you reach for the off button, have a read of Darragh’s take on the biggest headache the BCI ever had, or ‘Tommy’ as his mother calls him.

M’off to legitimise my pay…

Some good friends of mine from home in Kilkenny are gigging in Whelans tonight, and I’m gutted I can’t be there (we’re still in Bratislava…), so treat the following as a plug to add my support to their cause! Saving J have been on the road for a while now and are well worth a look! The band formed in late 2005 and comprises Sean Redmond (Lead Vocals. rhythm guitar), Paul Hindle (Drums, backing vocals), Liam Redmond (Lead Guitar) and new addition Graham Hynes (Bass guitar).

How time has moved on… Paul was my date for my Debs all those moons ago… No, there are no photos… I hope…