Hello again and welcome all to what has become a weekly event though I was
almost tempted not to send one just to see if anyone noticed and rang me up
frantically wanting to know if I was dead...and then I said NO for I feel
relatively popular and I don't want my illusions shattered...!

But I digress(and people said that that wasn't possible within the first
sentence...!)

Today indeed is Tuesday and in a nice change I have an extra hour off...mostly
cos we did that class yesterday instead of today...they have this whole
"timetable" thing going on, and apparently if we miss a class, we have to make
it up some place else.....all sounds far too organised to me...=)
So now let me just consider whether I have any news that would warrant writing
an e-mail of any sort...hmmm...
The last week has been remarkably boring...nothing of note happened at
all....I mean, I didn't even get to the cinema....

I suppose I could start by saying on Thursday we went to a marvellous pub to
celebrate a birthday(that of Gar for those who care!).(No...the OTHER Gar...)A
lovely pub indeed and all was fun until they decided to bring us to a
houseparty involving 7 people none of whom I knew....discretion being the
better part of valour our exits were quickly made, and I hastened to be in
quite a fast fashion(hastening implying a certain amount of speed)(NO..the
OTHER speed....what do you people think of me...=) )

THen Friday was a Friday-a college day, a working day...but it was worth
working-oh indeed it was...for during my sojourn in Dunnes which(as always)
was highly riveting, I met a lady who I would imagine was in her late
twenties...she was travelling around Ireland and seemed to be friendly and
chatty and happy-hurrah I thought!And so we had a bit of an oul talk, and she
said how she had expected to find the energy she was looking for in Galway,
and hadn't been disappointed
Cue Maeve:"Oh yeah energy yeah young people yeah great yeah Galway cool yeah"
Cue the woman"Yes...the fairy energy is very strong here..."

hmmmm

that was unexpected.....

And when she went on to ask me if I'd noticed how there were so many tall
people around I decided that serving the next customer was my only option...!!
(Note to foreigners(mostly K...=p)Fairies are tall and stately-leprechauns
are short and dumpy sho-makers with beards.....I'm not quite sure what their
relationship is except that possibly the leprechauns get the fairies' cast off
clothing.....)

On Friday I also got to help an old lady accross the road....I'm adding this
in just to prove that I COULD have been a girl scout if I'd wanted to be...I
just didn't want to-so ha =p!

I SUPPOSE i could mention that it being the "class reps" weekend for the U.L.
babies a vast horde of U.L. (mainly)first years with vague interests in
promoting the demands of their classes descended upon my beautiful city, and
thusly on Friday night I had to go out and have coffee and beer and fat frogs
with extra vodka(which if someone didn't know that a fat frog is a cocktail
could be quite confusing....!) All was good and I cleverly escaped before the
nichtclub which was just as well seeing as I was working at 9 the next
morning...*shudder*

But in a beautiful twist I had visitors on Saturday night who respectively
cooked me dinner and bought me shoes
THus it was a happy day and a happy night out except for the hour in the
middle where I prettty much fell asleep(I maintain the music was rubbish!),
but got home at 4 and was in work for 12 in an almost sane mood so that was
nice =)

And note how I haven't enven metioned the fact that we met Luke and Josh and
Tim the Australians and Sarah stuck post it notes on their headds and while
speaking Irish in a bar I was accosted by a man telling me that Ocean Colour
Scene are playing Galway in a month....only to find out through our
conversation that he's lecturing me next semester....this country is a wee bit
too small methinks...!!!!

And that's about it for the week of Maeve...
I feel like I should write a coming next week piece:
Hera about the mundy gig the whole world's been talking about(well...they
haven't but I'm going for an advertisingy type tone so hey...)
See the amazing antics of Me and the visiting horde of ginger Limerick
ruffians and people who say E.T.A. and VTOL and SR 71 Blackbird (and no I
didn't just google to make sure that was right...but http://www.habu.org/ is
the online blackbird museum apparently...emmm...yeah...)(E and R for
those who were confused..)

AND an early HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my other M (*hugs*) and a late one to P
who never told me so it's his own fault HA!

x
m=)