Not much blogging in the last few days. busy. Although I notice some of my regular commenters have been running rampant, so maybe its time to bring them on home.
Fun week. Last friday my cousin Derek Moran got married, so we all decamped to Murroe and from there to the Woodlands House Hotel in Adare for beer and dinner. And then more beer. No single women, very few single anybodies actually. Lots of kids running around. Speeches weren’t great. Derek’s brother Jim was best man. Not much scandal, just the usual family stuff.
Saturday, to my great discomfort, I was rudely awoken before 9.30 by my dentist ringing to remind me I had an appointment for the following Monday. Saturday didn’t get much better after that. But I did end up going to see A History of Violence, which is one of those strange films, well written and directed with a capable cast who are not afraid to be good actors and you know actually ACT and stuff, that you don’t tend to see anymore. The violence is a bit excessive at times, but you soon get sanatised to it and then it becomes funny in its over-the-topness. After the movies we ran into Maria and her search for a tall, dark stranger. But we couldnt help as we weren’t tall, dark or strange enough.
Sunday we went to see Wallace and Gromit, a preview show in Storm in Castletroy that was mysterioulsy empty. Better than that Curse of the Wererabbit also turned out to be a better story with better direction and better acting than the usual drivel and most of the characters were plastecine and mute. The humour and gags are not as subtle as in earlier W&G outings, I suppose to cater for Americans. But there were a lot of puns; and puns are good. Can’t get enough puns.
You wait ages for a good movies and then two come along at once!!
Monday kicked off a busy and sometimes crap week. Went to the dentist to get a filling, back upper right wisdom tooth. Lots of drilling and filling. Doesn’t seem to have taken though – It seems to be slowly, but surely falling out and all week I’ve had bits of tooth and filling floating around my mouth. Hopefully there will still be some of it left when I go back on the 25th.
My yoga mat went missing last week. I left it behind me in the pool and some f**ker either walked off with it or nicked it from Lost and Found. Lost and Found in the arena is a joke anyway, its just a cupboard that anyone can access whenever they want and I have heard at least one tale of somebody who doesn’t sit a million miles away from here who just takes t-shirts from Lost and Found whenever they don’t have one for soccer. Isn’t that just disgusting!!!!!
Anyway yoga was pain and suffering as we did lots of stretches with the ambition of achieving nirvana. I mean the lotus position. I didn’t even come close. It made spinning afterwards a lot easier, as my legs were good and stretched. Unfortunately they were also quite tired. But no pain, no gain or some equally glib platitude
Edu is leaving us for a few weeks to go to Rome and so there was beer Thursday night. I think I need to drink more during the week. Although I am kinda worried that I was using beer as an endorphin substitute. I only managed 5 hours of exercise this week so my endorphin levels are probably way down.
Today was a long day I think I spent from 11am to 5pm (granted I was only in at 10.16 but thats not relevant) or so in meetings or working with people only 20 mins of which were relevant to my PhD and the best part of that 20 mins was a paragraph I made up on the bus coming in this morning. Sometimes I don’t know what I’m doing or why!
Today might be a good day to inaugurate a Pizza Friday featuring beer and more beer in Catherine Street. I can always go to the gym Saturday to make up for it…
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