Tea and Porridge

This week's recap:

On Tuesday I got hit by a bus. No, nothing serious. I was weaving my way through traffic trying to get to the head of the line of traffic when the light changed and the bus that I was next to took off. Apparently it was closer than expected because it caught my leg and my handlebars and nudged me into the car beside me...painful, embarrassing but no lasting scars, not even any blood.
After that, there was a group meeting, where I once again had to explain each part of the project to my group and break down the idea for the innovation EXACTLY for them because somehow they didn't get it. But we got it sorted out, assigned the pieces...oh and we have to prepare the write up and the presentation for the week we come back from vacation.

Irish history is going well, we finally learned about the Great Famine and we've hit the 20th century as far as history goes...for some reason we skip a lot of years in between the Anglo-Norman conquest and the rebellions...odd, but hey, I like it. Oh and my 6pg paper is due the week after we come back from vacation as well.

We did have a power outtage on Wednesday which was the damnest thing. I was sitting, reading in the morning when around 11am, the lights turn off. Wondering whats wrong, I proceed to check lights in other rooms and on other floors. I thought at first that the bill came and we missed it somehow and now were without power. Luckily however, I went down to the cafe to ask if they had power and they didn't. The owner said that something had blown or gone wrong and that the entire street was out. He had called the electric company and they said it would be back on within 2 hours. So I continued on my merry way, got a Londis sub for lunch (yummy!) came back and the power was back on! So all was well there.

That night, I was hassled into playing a couple of hands of "Asshole" during which I managed to become the Asshole, and the next round, I was the President. I am the queen of the clear cards which are always to my advantage, so I managed to be Vice Prez once and President twice, beating out the two guys who were playing that night and who play all the time. I was pretty damn proud of myself. So I got to go to bed with a smile on my face.

Thursday, I was so bored in my class that I decided to find a way to read the Harry Potter novels online. I searched and searched and finally found a few websites, yay me! So while the teacher was discussing things that we had already talked about and the project we just turned in that I didn't want to think about, I managed to read half of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It was quite eventful. While waiting for my next class, I had lunch with my friend Mary and we chatted about possibly going down to Cork together over break, awesome! Blarney Stone...gift of gab...yea like I need that, haha.

But the weekend, the first of my Spring Break has been pretty quite and uneventful which is good as I'm in dire need of the R&R. All of the girls are out traveling around the mainland this week. The boys downstairs have a ton of people here this weekend, but for a big group, they are relatively quiet, just the usual music and hustle and bustle. Found out that I have yet another paper due which blows, looks like I'm going to be spending some time in the library. And I can't seem to get in touch with the woman I wanted to interview for one of my projects...But on the BRIGHT side, it's been sunny all week and I think that the weather is warming up a bit and we're headed into spring here in Dublin. Oh and I'm caught up in 90s Sabrina the teenage witch, oh the good ole days. Maybe I'll go for a walk around the Green or just sit out on my balcony and enjoy.