July 29, 2003
10:45 AM dublin time
we have been doing stuff. don't let my silence disturb you.
it's mostly been credit card stuff - buying a €400 digital camera online [yikes] - booking ourselves flights on ryanair for a week in berlin. [yay! we're going to berlin]. credit card is a little sore. and we're not totally sure if the camera is gonna arrive on time for the berlin trip.
it's definitely not gonna arrive on time for next weekend though, of that i'm sure. which is a pity coz next weekend is spraoi weekend. spraoi being the irish word for party-extravaganza. more specifically spraoi being the waterford word for amazingly fantabulous street theatre festival that happens every august bank holiday weekend.
do come. you can stay on my floor. we'll do the spraoi thing together.
[link]July 22, 2003
10:21 PM dublin time
i was mistaken when in the entry before last i said it was a 600m swim each way to 'the rock'. it is infact a mere 300m each way.
but i more than made up for my error today by swimming the 300m all the way to the rock, then continuing on the 300m beyond to the far side of the bay. and then swimming all the way back again.
she'll sleep well tonight.
[link]July 15, 2003
09:54 AM dublin time
saw charlies' angels full throttle.
and goodness i haven't heard an irish accent that bad since tom cruise in far and away.
the perpetrator was justin theroux as irish mob leader seamus o'grady [i didn't even know there was an irish mob, though hang on, wasn't that what gangs of new york was about?].
and having seen him in mullholand drive and american psycho - not exactly your low brow quick buck flicks - here's me thinking he was way above appallingly badly rendered irish accents.
well maybe he was doing it on purpose. maybe he did it as a bet? some mate of his said 'i bet you can't do the most absolutely unbelievable irish accent ever, and still get them to include it in the movie'. maybe it's a kudos thing in hollywood - to totally take the piss in a movie and actually get it released.
so that's what arnie's been doing all these years.
[link]July 08, 2003
11:28 PM dublin time
we go swimming at seapoint most days it's not too cold and the tide is right. usually i splash about for a bit, before i get too chilly - even on warm days the sea is pretty frizely.
but today i decided to join the brave people and swim to the rock - a deep 600m swim each way - though you're never too far from the shore.
a couple of things had been putting me off. first the distance - i'm sure i'd be fine in a pool, but in the wild wide open sea? and also the beasties. who knows what's lurking in the gloomy seaweedy depths below?
but if aonghus could do it, then so could i.
moreover, if aonghus and ted and yvonne and hugh and bea and hugh's cousin lisa and countless healthy looking grey-haired types could do it, then i'd be damned if i was gonna sit around freshly swum and fully re-clothed waiting for them to finish their aquatic rock trek!
so off we set, and easy as pie, i breaststroked there and back.
i didn't get a cramp and drown. i wasn't attacked by nasty underwater monsters. i wasn't even particularly exhausted, though the strange gasping sounds aonghus was making were at times a trifle worrying.
yay for swimming! i'm doin it again tomorrow.
[link]July 07, 2003
09:27 PM dublin time
when i grow up, i want to work for a company like this.
[link]July 02, 2003
12:34 PM dublin time
hypothetically overheard:
person one: "how's your nectarine darling?"
person two: "peachy"
[link]July 01, 2003
02:43 PM dublin time
aargh.
am useless at this 'self employment' thing.
i'll happily sit forever in front of a computer, but when it comes to going out there and looking for clients [so that i have a reason to sit forever in front of the computer] i'm no good at all.
i've just spent the last couple of days trawling google for tips on how to write successful sales letters, so i can target some poor innocent companies, who's only crime is that they don't have a web page, and send them letters they may never read so they can fill their wastepaper baskets with unwanted post.
i don't know if this is a good idea, but if the alternative is actually ringing said companies and trying to sell them web pages over the phone, i'll happily wast a couple of quid on stamps and a couple of days writing and rewriting [and rewriting] some potential junk mail.
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