It’s been raining for days here. Pissing down, in fact. It was raining when we left Cork for Dublin yesterday morning. It was rained on the way up. Somewhere around Kildare, we saw signs of sunlight. The girl sitting across from us, who was also going to the concert, said, “Maybe if all eighty thousand of us huff and puff at the sky, the clouds will go away.” Ted said, “You just have to believe.” He kept saying that the rest of the afternoon. I kept singing “Keep the faith,”…
sooooooo tired
We took the early train into Cork yesterday, rather than the cutting-it-close train, and it turned out it was a damned good thing, because it was standing room only all the way from Cork to Dublin, for those poor bastards who got on closer to the time it left, or at later stations. *Enormous* numbers of people were obviously going to the concert, and everybody seemed to be in quite high fine moods, and I was so tired I kept dozing off, which is really unusual for me on a…
mostly movies
Having watched The Da Vinci Code, I now understand why people keep saying THE CARDINAL RULE is like it. It is. Sort of. In that they both have secret societies and the Catholic church has some involvement with those societies. I thought several times during the movie, “Sure, if I were writing this story instead of Dan Brown, I might have written the Strongbox Chronicles instead of this,” which probably doesn’t make much sense, but it’s kind of the only way I can describe it. Anyway, I liked the movie…
bon jovi
I have replaced our nosebleed scary-heights Bon Jovi tickets with VIP circle tickets, because there is no point in getting a royalty check if you can’t blow some of it frivolously on being within fifteen feet of Jon Bon Jovi. Besides, it’s our anniversary! :) I know I only know about six people in Ireland, but if one of the six of you would like 2 Bon Jovi tickets, or know someone who would, I have a pair of nosebleed scary-heights tickets for Saturday night’s concert at Croke Park that…
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FOUR JOBS I HAVE HAD IN MY LIFE: 1. babysitter 2. cannery worker 3. web designer 4. author FOUR MOVIES I WOULD WATCH OVER AND OVER AND OVER: 1. the replacement killers 2. sliding doors 3. while you were sleeping 4. the cutting edge FOUR PLACES I HAVE LIVED: 1. kenai, alaska 2. fairbanks, alaska 2. san francisco, california 3. cobh, ireland FOUR CURRENT T.V. SHOWS I LOVE TO WATCH: None. Literally. I watch no current tv. FOUR PLACES I HAVE BEEN ON VACATION: 1. Disneyland 2. New York City…