Thursday or in Irish Tursday

TirtyTree and a Tird. yep just letting you know about the accent.

so here's the update for today. no job or calls, i called a couple of places today, no openings! i turned in my app. at 3 different recruitment agencies so hopefully soon...i also went to the FAS office, which perhaps i will try again tomorrow afternoon. they have telephones you can use for free, so perhaps i will use these landlines, seeing as they are more reliable then the cellular phones. and they are free as oppossed to the cellular phones.

i'm sure you all want to know about the concert...the afro-irish concert. it was very good. so this genre of music is pretty much a parallel to a jam band. for those of you who do not know what a jam band is please do some research and get with the program. but this jam band was exceptional...i do not like jam bands but this one was great. they had all the regular band instruments: drums, electric bass, acoustic guitar, keyboards. but what made them great is they also had: electric fiddle, acoustic violin, bongos, some sort of metal flute, tin whistle, uilliean (ilen) bagpipes (my roommate paul correctd me on how to say it, thank god another strange irish word.) and one of those cool traditional irish drums that you under one arm and tap on with like a whisk type thing. Somone was also playing the spoons! and to make it even more rastafarian etc. the bands name was KiLA. and the lead singer was wearing a KiLA shirt. my flatmate Francesca was buying a CD and i asked the lady selling CDs what the name meant, was it Gaelic or something. No it's a made up word, typical jam band style. Anywho, pretty fun stuff. If you have a myspace account you might be able to check them out online. i did not buy a CD as i did not enjoy it enough to purchase a CD, i liked it in the moment but i couldn't say it would be my favorite band ever. so that occupied most of the night, we wanted to go for a tea afterward, it was an outdoor concert but only the pubs were open, so we went home for some tea.

it was such a great concert to be at on the summer solstice, it really made me feel like i was in contemporary ireland celebrating the longest day of the year. and it didn't sprinkle until the end of the concert, there was even some blue sky during the outdoor concert which was probably meant to be in celebration of the day. nice all around. i also met some of Francesca's friends, the ones who work at Cultivate, hippies from the four corners of the earth.

then once we arrived home we sat down and had some tea with paul as he ate dinner @11:30 at night! Paul also showed me some of the websites he has put together, he loves doing the flash stuff. i have to say i was pretty impressed, he obviously has skills with the program, he just needs to work on some design principles, and learn something about typography and i really do think he could apply at any design firm, without a degree if he can get his foot in the door. one of his friend's contacted him about possibly doing an irish independent music label website. lots of work, and he wasn't sure he wanted to spend the whole summer inside working on it, so he was thinking of pricing it really high and if they want to hire him at that price great, but if not then oh well. he has started rethinking the whole working with the addicts thing, might be more violent than he really wants to deal with. i told him a few good band websites to check out for inspiration and a few bad websites of what not to do. we started talking about .gif builders and it was at that point Francesca said, "alright guys, i must go to bed." she is such a funny girl.

my roommates have been so kind and helpful since i have moved in. francesca realizes i have skills and has tried to steer me in directions for me to work. i found a bead shop with traditional celtic beads so for 3 euro i am going to make her a bracelet.

open air market...food market. so i went and purchased some fruits and vegetables today. For 5 euro i got 10 pink lady apples, 3 leeks, 2pints of strawberries, and a head of broccoli. broccoli is really expensive here so were the leeks. the strawberries are grown right here in dublin and they smell divine. i can't wait to have them tomorrow morning. the cherries i got last week were wonderful as well. The women selling the fruit have such hard and leathered faces, and sound as if they smoke more then a pack a day, but they are polite and rush the food into your bag which is fine. so i will be making a vegetable-tempeh stir fry tonight. i am looking forward to less protein, more vegetables.

and tomorrow i take the LUAS to the 'burbs to apply for a job in the Dundrum mall-hopefully there could be some employment opportunities there, but again 20 minute train ride outside the city, could get expensive. but one day won't kill me. the USIT office gave me a list of the stores hiring, so hopefully something will turn up. i called the Down to Earth health food store, and unfortunately he wanted someone who was going to be here permanently:( i would if i could-damn eurpoean union.

i have been watching some news programs in the mournings here in Dublin...you thought duluth news was bad, in duluth we can't text or email in to the show about how we feel about parking tickets of Alexander Court Street or how we feel about the new Nike ad in the Irish Times. Bizarre. and poor camera shooting as well. often times the tops of the news anchor's head is cut off. what makes this even funnier, is the fact that one on of the morning shows is on the BBC and has these same sorts of goofy things.

i have purchased some envelopes so will be sending some analog notes to those of you who don't do the email. i have gathered lots of thoughts and i have the time so i will be doing this in the next couple of weeks.

tomorrow a.m. 'burbs. friday p.m. grocery stores/convenience stores around the dublin city-centre area.

sunday evening, poetry reading/tin whistle playing concert with Francesca and Mirion(she is from Spain, Fran's friend). so that's the word here in dublin, tut tut it looks like rain.

xoxo,
christie