yesterday, i went on the rip. it started innocently enough, pausing to buy two (wow wot a rebel) beers on my way home from a walk. when i got home, jane my housemate was there with a friend. drinking wine in the kitchen. i joined them and we wound up in a pub in blackrock village. whilst there, we decided to go into town clubbing. and so we clubbed, played pool, laughed at how seriously some men take their drunken pool in a night club and most importantly drank some more. i haven’t been out on a wednesday evening in god only knows how long. years i would say. it was fun. i has happy to be acting like a twenty something, drinking on a weeknight, talking about not going into work the next day. (i did, i’m here in work writing this.) there are two months left of the summer and i am going to enjoy them and get wasted on a weeknight if i want to. my new resolution is to make the most of what’s left of my twenties!!

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in other news

in the guardian today there is some fascinating stuff to read. as there always in the guardian.

here are some of the most interesting (to me) articles:

for a long time, i’ve been irritated by flash websites and fancy stuff and animation. it seems i am not alone. jack agrees.

yet another reason to add to my list of resanos mhy i should have studied science at university.

finally, the earth is a brain and we are all brain cells and we affect things.
farout.

I drank half of my cup of coffee yesterday and this morning I went straight for the coffee machine. This morning it was badly needed because I didn’t get to sleep until 0300hrs (or sometime after but it was 0300h when I last checked my clock) and my alarm went off a mere four hours later. So coffee is certainly welcome this morning. I know hot water would have the same effect, that of warming your insides but I had a cup of hot water first and it just wasn’t the same. So I am a coffee drinker again.
In other news, this is my new object of desire: Palm TungstenT2. Top of the list of things to purchase in New York! Why wait til then? Well because I want to go on a whopping shopping trip and need to save the money first!

i forgot to say that last friday i went to see the Russian State Ballet in the NCH. It was beautiful. The costumes were outstanding and the dancing, well what can i say. because the nch has quite a small stage, it couldn’t possibly accomodate a whole ballet corp, so instead we were treated to excerpts from a wide range of ballets involving one or two dancers. it was wonderful. i love ballet. it is so graceful and beautiful. ballerina’s are incredibly thin too. they all had sticking out ribs. both the men and the women. Among the evenings treats were seeing Bolshoi prima ballerina Galina Stepanenko. And another wonderful treat was to see Monica Loughman. Monica Loughman is an Irish woman, from Santry, Co. Dublin who auditioned sucessfully for a place with the Perm State Ballet when she was thirteen. She went to train in Russia he was only 13. Which is incredible. She is the only Western European to ever have been admitted to the Corp. And she is now a soloist. She danced the dying Swan from Swan Lake and it was beautiful. I hope they come back for another summer gala extravaganza next year.