thanks, i made it.

So it is monday again, i made it an entire day without being on the internet, or with the TV and cable. wow, what an accomplishment. so here's the scoop, i will probably finish my scarf that i am making tonight and not a moment too soon, as i will be starting a job tomorrow at Down To Earth, a natural foods store as dunh duh...a shelf straightner. not the most glamourous job, but with something i believe in and love. so i will have some income. and depending on how things i may find a second part time job. but i start tuesday a.m. at 9:30am. so i will work an 8 hour shift and then be back to email in the afternoon. so that's the most recent news.

in other news shamus heany. so on sunday i didn't wake up until about noon, apparently a rough night. saturday evening Fransesca and i went to the irish independent film theater, where we saw the film, "thank you for smoking" about an american lobbyist who lobbys for the tobacco industry. kind of a satire of sorts, but pretty interesting and mildly funny. but if you don't know anything about american government, then you wouldn't laugh. let's just say christie and a couple of people were laughing while everyone else watched on, in probably a little non-understanding if you will.

sunday, well not too much, wandered out of the house at about 3pm and walked around by steven's green, more art out on the fences of the green. i got home about 7pm, when some ice cream, which plays a role later in this adventure. and Fransesca and i left for Shaums Haney, Liam O'Flynn, a famous piper, "piper and the poet" concert. So Shamus would read a few poems, give a little commentary, then Liam would play a song that he wrote on his uillian bagpipes or his tin whistle. shamus looked a lot older and crazier then i had imagined he would. he sparadic white hair and squinty eyes so it was a bit commical even when the poems were not commical. i feel that he is probably someone that irish citizens should admire, perhaps over joyce, just because he is more accessible as far as content of writing goes, and it was very cool because shamus wrote a poem written in response to 9/11 and the Robert Browning poem about upturning a mouse's home which i remember from a certain high school english teacher's class. so like that, no book signings though sorry:(

After that we went to a pub called the Mezz. it had a great band playing blues music. and mirion and fransesca were telling me about how they come here when they want to hear good good blues music, but only on certain nights of the week. this was also the place, where i had a bob dylan sighting. as we were walking out there was a man that looked absolutely exactly like bob dylan, and no i hadn't been drinking. i didn't ask though but i am pretty sure, if bob dylan was going to go to a pub in dublin, this would probably be the one he would go to. this pub is very music oriented, even the sloppy decor is music related.

Then at about 10:30pm we said goodbye to mirion and went home, where we had dun dunh...ice cream and as fransesca "ah yes...i will take a tea". it was pretty good ice cream, the first box a bought was crap but not this, it was great. so we had ice cream with strawberries, with a chamomile tea and then off to bed at a decent time, 12:30am is a decent time!

then it was job searching in the morning, and a library visit where i got the book "valoptuous vegan" and a book on england so i can figure out where i want to go that isn't london. so that's the scoop as of right now.

i got my pps number as well, which means i can submit my paperwork to the tax office and get paid next friday. which is fabulous to not need to wonder aimlessly everyday, looking for work. so hopefully this will be a good fit, i have found more galleries to go to as well, so this should be good. fransesca and i are having a cook off tonight with soups, and our roommate paul is going to a depeche mode concert with his brother so we can listen to whatever hippie music we want to listen too.

also at the end of the month, i am planning to go to the Irish film Center again to see the new film by Michel Gondry, the guy who directed eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, what an amazing artist. i absolutely love him and his style. so that's the word here in dublin, it is rainy and yucky so i am going to go home and perhaps make my brownies, we'll see i'd rather finish my scarf. so goodnight and see what you have written tomorrow.

xoxo,
christie

i will respond to your personal emails tomorrow afternoon when the cheaper internet cafe is available, and also the one with less irish rug rats.