So hurrah
For /me has her skychat back thus this mail is somewhat obsolete for I can talk to the vast majority of you at weird hours of the day and night...or at least up til ten o clock cos after that NUIG kick us all out...
I mean really-whats that all about?I had many problems with UL(mostly involving the fact that they made me do exams while listening to piledrivers...oh the bitterness...)but no 24 hour computer labs????I am suffering severe withdrawal symptoms by virtue of the fact that I now go home at a reasonable hour...NO I say and once more NO!!I will not stand for such treatment(excpet that obviously I will....)
THough in fairness they do have wireless hub internet thingys here but seeing as how my laptop is somewhat...hmmm...ancient and battery free...that isn't much of an option!!!
Oh the truly exciting news of the week is that I ME IIII got paid 40e for interpreting at that fascinating conference which meant that I got money for expeeerience which is nice...!!!
And also that I gave a truly kick ass presentation yesterday(No i'm actually proud of myself!!) and so all is well...bar those other three projects...which I should really be doing now!
Am no longer keyless(as though you cared) as I got a new one cut, am going to see Mr Mundy play next wednesday, cinema this friday to see the fillum of the month(that would be the highly Christmassy love actually...I know it's Christmassy cos all the ads for it have green and red and tinselly like things)(Oh and I heard on the radio that the Wham song Last Christmas I gave you my heart was originally entitled last SUMMER I gave you my heart but they changed it in order to get and immediate audience...I feel betrayed...!!)and next week shall be mostly studying for my exams...ostensibly!!
So finally big congrats to English buddy who has aquired herself a job HURRAH! more money to come visit me!!! And also good luck to those who are looking =)
Much love
m=)

so..

without further ado....


Am I the only person that tries to hand in their notice…as in actually DOES hand in their notice…but gets refused…I mean-what’s that all about?I may in fact be the best D Stores employee ever…my future is secure…!!
No but seriously that was my Monday-total madness…they said that I could work out my two weeks and that after that “we’ll see…”
I mean the woman(i.e. may manager) kept on saying things like, “But is there ANY time you could work for us…I mean ANY time??” and when I said weekends only and strictly and totally only still seemed quite happy…in fact she muttered something about “suiting my schedule”….my confusion knows no bounds..
So anyway that was unexpected but it appears I still have a job to come back to after Christmas-and if I don’t cos I point out to her how I’m disappearing totally for two weeks over the actual Christmas period..who cares?!!
Other than that I have discovered one of my callings…I…am a natural eater…! Oh no I knew that one already….mmm two dinners a day..!!But no III am a happy little interpreter!! No really! Last night was our (that being my vast class of 5..!)big debut as Irish to English interpreters – and it was kinda fun…despite the fact that the actual speakers got bottled water and we had to make do with stuff out of jugs(ok…I’ll admit that being as severely lower class as I am I kinda prefer tap water but let’s not let that interfere with a good gripe!!!!
No all in all it was a good expeeerience as our main lecturer guy kept saying to us… though obviously he said “beidh sé mar taithí iiiontach daoibh” cos he only speaks to us in Irish but as a translator I shall avow that my English version accurately reflected the meaning…! We had the headphones and everything and there was much talking and no coughing cos apparently that’s a bad thing to do, remotely coughing into people’s ears as you interpret for them..And lovely people came up and thanked us at the end….The sheer wondering amusement of it all…
What else what else? Oh I’v completely totally and utterly lost my house keys…no really…just as well I’m living with one of my best mates who only works across the road from the house or I’d be spending a lot of time standing outside in the cold and damp waiting for someone to get home…in fact I do that anyway but at least this way I have the option of walking across the road to get them…!!(anyone who chooses this moment to point out that more keys can be cut, should take a moment to reflect on their wisdom and realise that I KNOW that-I just don’t have time…no, I don’t have time to write this either but at this point German translations of Irish poetry are coming out my ears so I need a slight break…..!!)
College wise I am slowly dying a painful death! They gave us some lovely projects to do which I don’t have time to do anyway…and then added another one on top of that which is due in 2 days after the due date of another 2 and sigh and moan and etc. However! All shall be well as in a month’s time I’ll be finished my first semester and have the exams and all done and will be able to come home and sleep for a week or two-that genuinely being my current plan…. Anyone with any other suggestions please tell me in a moth’s time-I don’t think I could deal with the stress of anticipation…!

Okay so that’s it – will talk to you all next week =)
*hugs*

PS volo meam anaticulam cumminosam

Okay here's a note strictly for those who objected to group e-mails and yet questioned my alive status when they didn't receive one...=p
All the posts are in the wrong order but I think I got the dates right mostly-anyhew, you've read them all so hey!
Have fun ;)
*hugs*

WELL....

In a strange twist of fate I never did get as far as a computer last week so I
have discovered that the only person who cares whether por not I'm dead is in
fact:

ELLA!!

Once more I am subsumed with a feeling of love for my ginger friend and so
have decided to leave her all my possessions except the ones i need...so let's
be honest here...she's not gona do very well out of this deal (sorry honey!)

But on to more important things like me...
Since I last wrote I have had two fun weekends and two funnish
weeks!Apparently so amazing in fact that I can't actually remember anything
about them....

Ah yes...the friday night of the weekend before last, I was visited by two
angels who came to me as though in a dream...or in a haze of alcohol
anyway...we shall not discuss in this place the activities of the ginger one(a
clue to whose identity could potentially be garnered from the first paragraph
of this mail...!!)nor how attempts were made to besmirch my good
reputation...all in all it was much fun and the laughter flowed like wine(if
that's possible...)

And then my parents came to visit-and in the way of students everywhere I
insisted on receiving vast quantities of free food in the forom of restaurant
fare-and thus it was a good weekend!
Also(playing the role of the impoverished student in tragic circunmstances to
its fullest extent)I explained the extreme and painful cold that had reduced
me to shivering in my darkened bedroom alone with naught but two duvets to
reduce my suffering...and so, I was presented with my very own electric
blanket......
and a smoke alarm.....

Sometimes I think that people don't trust me...!!

So after a splendiferous weekend of cheapness AND food(usually not a viable
combo!)I spent my Monday working and then(dan dan DAAAAN) it was write a
dictionary day!

The day started with me writing a dictionary. Then they gave me the Nobel
prize for Peace and Literature and we had tea and sandwiches...

Some of that's almost true...!!
No but it was a three day course and I haqve to admit, actually kind of
interesting!!!(and we did get tea and sanwiches ALL THREE DAYS...FOR FREE I
might add in capital letters to point out once more how great NUIG are =) )
And we spent three days attempting to write a bilingual dictionary entry for
the verb "to command" and still weren't finished(and there are too a lot more
translations and/or meanings for that verb than you'd think so HA!)
So that was three days of tiring fun, and also disturbance as the English guy
with perfect Irish, the American guy with perfect Irish (both lecturers IN
Irish)and the Australian girl...who's an official Irish translator...kinda
freaked me out with their brilliance...
I knew there was a reason I didn't like foreigners....grrrr!!

And thus was I set up for another weekend of the craic being mightywith the
arrival of the other Maeve(who for the purposes of this mail shall be know as
"the other Maeve")And we did indeed have mighty craic(the full story shall be
supplied to those who pay a subscription only...=p)
In other words my weekend involved a lot of hiding from icky couples =p!(am
currently on a feverish hunt for someone with whom to be an icky couple...I'm
so left out and alone sigh sigh siiigh...though my pain is belayed somewhat by
the fact that I don't wnat to have to buy anyone Christmas presents........=)
)

And so Saturday night was clubbing and Sunday night was pubbing and Monday
night was cinema (intolerable cruelty...and it was....intolerable...!(look
I'll admit that I laughed many lots...but despite the fantastic set pieces
over all it was..well.....see above)(though obvisouly it wasn't ACTually
intolerable cos I was able to watch it....so let's just go with awful,
k?!!)and more pubbing with visiting Kerry/Americanites who we will call Maria
and Brad...to avoid confusion...


All in all it has been a good times!!!

Wie immer many apologies for boring you all
but hugs also

x
m=)



And that was it

1) I'm not dead...just asleep.....!

2) I did not...I repeat NOT flood my kitchen...
Rumours abound indeed but I wouldn't class a slight accident with a running
tap and cutlery drawers full of water and cupboards under the drawers with
saucepans full of water and a slightly "damp" floor as a flood..more
an...innovative house cleaning method...!
And that's the story I'm sticking to...just hope no one looks for any
newspapers in the house cos I may have slightly used them all!

And other than that nothing to report! I had a lovely weekend with a Sunday
off and a staying in bedness but that feels SO LONG AGO now...!!

Oh and anyone who wants to give me a job I'm gonna be unemployed in 2 to 3
weeks cos I'm a lazy bum =) HURRAH!

So basically I'll be around LImerick at Christmas...and more importantlyat New
Years-so i shall expect to see at least many of you at the party of
the....31st...I was gonna say of the century and then I said-why put pressure
on myself?I don't care....I'LL have fun anyway and as we all know, that's all
that matters!

And now I'm away to translate some poetry and eat some lunch =)

*hugs*
m=)

P.S. word(s) of the week is "bradmharcach/bradmharcaigh" (pron
brad-var-kuc/brad-var-kig) meaning joyrider/s

Now there's a useful one! And to add to your amuseent oh computery folk, a
"luamhán stiúrtha" is a joystick =)!

god the fun never stops

=)

WELL....

In a strange twist of fate I never did get as far as a computer last week so I
have discovered that the only person who cares whether or not I'm dead is in
fact:

ELLA!!

Once more I am subsumed with a feeling of love for my ginger friend and so
have decided to leave her all my possessions except the ones i need...so let's
be honest here...she's not gonna do very well out of this deal (sorry honey!)

But on to more important things like me...
Since I last wrote I have had two fun weekends and two funnish
weeks!Apparently so amazing in fact that I can't actually remember anything
about them....

Ah yes...the friday night of the weekend before last, I was visited by two
angels who came to me as though in a dream...or in a haze of alcohol
anyway...we shall not discuss in this place the activities of the ginger one(a
clue to whose identity could potentially be garnered from the first paragraph
of this mail...!!)nor how attempts were made to besmirch my good
reputation...all in all it was much fun and the laughter flowed like wine(if
that's possible...)

And then my parents came to visit-and in the way of students everywhere I
insisted on receiving vast quantities of free food in the forum of restaurant
fare-and thus it was a good weekend!
Also(playing the role of the impoverished student in tragic circumstances to
its fullest extent)I explained the extreme and painful cold that had reduced
me to shivering in my darkened bedroom alone with naught but two duvets to
reduce my suffering...and so, I was presented with my very own electric
blanket......
and a smoke alarm.....

Sometimes I think that people don't trust me...!!

So after a splendiferous weekend of cheapness AND food(usually not a viable
combo!)I spent my Monday working and then(dan dan DAAAAN) it was write a
dictionary day!

The day started with me writing a dictionary. Then they gave me the Nobel
prize for Peace and Literature and we had tea and sandwiches...

Some of that's almost true...!!
No but it was a three day course and I have to admit, actually kind of
interesting!!!(and we did get tea and sandwiches ALL THREE DAYS...FOR FREE I
might add in capital letters to point out once more how great NUIG are =) )
And we spent three days attempting to write a bilingual dictionary entry for
the verb "to command" and still weren't finished(and there are too a lot more
translations and/or meanings for that verb than you'd think so HA!)
So that was three days of tiring fun, and also disturbance as the English guy
with perfect Irish, the American guy with perfect Irish (both lecturers IN
Irish)and the Australian girl...who's an official Irish translator...kinda
freaked me out with their brilliance...
I knew there was a reason I didn't like foreigners....grrrr!!

And thus was I set up for another weekend of the craic being mightywith the
arrival of the other Maeve(who for the purposes of this mail shall be know as
"the other Maeve")And we did indeed have mighty craic(the full story shall be
supplied to those who pay a subscription only...=p)
In other words my weekend involved a lot of hiding from icky couples =p!(am
currently on a feverish hunt for someone with whom to be an icky couple...I'm
so left out and alone sigh sigh siiigh...though my pain is belayed somewhat by
the fact that I don't want to have to buy anyone Christmas presents........=)
)

And so Saturday night was clubbing and Sunday night was pubbing and Monday
night was cinema (intolerable cruelty...and it was....intolerable...!(look
I'll admit that I laughed many lots...but despite the fantastic set pieces
over all it was..well.....see above)(though obviously it wasn't ACTually
intolerable cos I was able to watch it....so let's just go with awful,
k?!!)and more pubbing with visiting Kerry/Americanites who we will call Maria
and Brad...to avoid confusion...


All in all it has been a good times!!!

Wie immer many apologies for boring you all
but hugs also

x
m=)



And that was it