another weekend wasted?

ccTravelAbroad

well people christie here once again, sorry to disappoint you with boring old star sightings and drug begging so here's some other news. on saturday i worked, hardly, i'm not sure why i was so tired, i'm hoping next week will be better after my 11/12 hour sleep cycles on the weekend. so on sunday the plan was to get up at around 10 am make some banana pancackes and then go to a whereabouts event/play thing. so i didn't get up until quarter to 12 which kind of squashed the pancake idea since the whereabouts started at 12:30pm, so i showed up and other people did not so they asked if it would be alright to start at 1pm instead of 12:30pm, it was really warm, not US warm, but about 79F so i thought i would go home a change into something that wasn't as warm tshirt and kahkis too much! so this whereabouts thing was pretty great. it was like an play/happening (do some art history research if you don't know what a happening is)/comment on modern irish society/moment of glory for new irish playwriters and it was free! i even got a medal(but i had to give it back at the end, it was only to identify me if i got lost) it was also very cool because we went to like 5/6 locations around the temple bar. there was one on affluent society in Ireland, since Ireland is realitively "new money" and with the most millionaries per capita in the world...sorry don't know where i was going with that, anywho there was one on the knacker/drug culture, one on the conspiracy theory/truth about the Irish govt. letting the CIA come in and just snatch people off the street, one on suicide/drug culture, and some less memerable ones (it also included swears and nudity no PG13 shows here, hubba hubba).

i also went to the National Photogarphy Archive to find out about darkroom facilities, and if i become a member at £40 then i can use the dark room every sunday if i want, otherwise it is available every morning i work except the monday i have off, how convenient, but there was also a new photo exhibit called "American Ruins" by Camilo Jose Vergara who has been photographing in NY for the last 30 years the two works i really enjoyed were "On the Way Out: Fern Street, North Camden" and "Neither Time Nor a Harlem Store Front stands Still" these two photograph collectives were taken by Vegara from about 1976 through 2006, it is amazing how the store fronts can change over time, and the degradation that society can over look the poorer classes when not having to deal with it first hand, or at all. i was also thinking about this area in NY when they just keep building taller and taller buildings instead of taking over buildings that are abandoned and how we have this option in the US but not here in Ireland, it would have been great to get a Europeans ideas/feelings about it fromt that perspective. i almost asked someone i saw in the gallery, mostly because he looked like someone i knew in MN but i decided not to.

i had pancakes for dinner instead, hooray for me. they were delicious, my flat mate paul concurred! i purchased some organic vegetables today and i went into a huge asian market close to where i work i bought some stuff to make curry, i also took a trip to the library to get some different vegetarian cookbooks, so i am ready for the week. i am so glad i didn't work today it is very hot here today. hopefully tomorrow will be cooler. i am trying really hard to finsih omnivore's dilema but it is hard to care when you aren't faced with corn fed cows over here, everything is grazed and no growth hormones, so the meat is minorly safer then the meat in the us. so that's the word on the block here. hope everyone is doing well, take of yourselves, notice something strage, funny, interesting to your, unique about your fellow humans today:) i saw topless tanners in a city park today and a man tanning in his brief underware, how's that for unique, who knew people would do that in a city park, but they also drink beers on the boardwalk illeagally.

oh i got things to fix my betty rubble necklace (heather will laugh at this) and the woman at the bead shop gave me directions and explained to me what i had to do and got all the supplies for me in a bag, i must of looked dazed and confused, so that is what i will do tonight, fix my betty rubble necklace so i can wear it to work and tell them the story. for those of you who don't know it, my roommate Heather (back in duluth) wore it to work at Old Chicago and one of her coworkers said to her "Hey Heather, Betty Rubble called, she want's her necklace back." but both of us still continued to wear the necklace. but it broke in my backpack so i will fix it and wear soon hopefully:)

xoxo,
christie