The Inconsistency of Irish Import Duty
Posted on April 4, 2008 - Filed Under Life-In-General | 1 Comment
I collected a package from the Post Office the other day. It was an batch of T-shirts I had ordered from the States, and I had specifically asked that it be marked as a gift so that no price would appear on the package, so that I couldn’t be smacked with any import duties or [...]
Missing Phone
Posted on March 18, 2008 - Filed Under Life-In-General | Leave a Comment
I have no phone at present. I don’t know where it could be either, because I don’t have any recollection of the tail end of last night. So please use internet-based forms of communication if you wish to contact me in the coming days.
Update: I left it in the Taxi I don’t remember getting. I [...]
Time Gun Inc.
Posted on February 20, 2008 - Filed Under Life-In-General, Stuff I Want, Tech | 9 Comments
I’ve rambling incoherently to a few people about this in the past week, so the time seems ripe to blog it.
Imagine that you have too many things to do and too little time to do them. Not very hard to imagine, right? For instance right now I have two essays to write for Friday, another [...]
A Question of Appreciation
Posted on February 20, 2008 - Filed Under Life-In-General | 5 Comments
If you help someone out but do it badly (e.g., agree to their request for a lift into college, but show up a slight bit late), are they entitled to feel resentful, especially if you have a well-known difficulty with being on time for things? And if not, are you entitled to feel resentful if [...]
Motivation
Posted on February 13, 2008 - Filed Under Career, College, Health, Life-In-General | 7 Comments
Since yesterday, practicing this has been the overriding goal of my life.
Come on cynics, what say you of my latest plan?
Opening Hours
Posted on February 13, 2008 - Filed Under College, Life-In-General | Leave a Comment
If your sign says you’re open until 7:30 then stay open until 7:30. Or else change your damn sign to 7:22…
Small Consolation
Posted on February 8, 2008 - Filed Under Life-In-General | Leave a Comment
I thought my iPod was broken, but it turns out that the problem resides with my previously awesome headphones.
Yay…
Sleeping Through College
Posted on February 3, 2008 - Filed Under College, Life-In-General | 6 Comments
(The following post is big on self-indulgent rambling, navel-gazing, and half-baked analogy, and short on substance. And I probably come across as very lazy. And there are too many semicolons as well.)
You know those mornings when you don’t have anything pressing to attend to, so you stay in bed for as long as possible? One [...]
Fruit and Jogging
Posted on January 31, 2008 - Filed Under Life-In-General | 1 Comment
An unusually effective path to something approaching happiness.
Jobs
Posted on January 31, 2008 - Filed Under Life-In-General | 2 Comments
Apologies for all the recent navel-gazing, but here comes some more. What job or jobs would best suit me? Between all the stuff I’ve already thought of and all the facetious suggestions maybe someone will throw out something worth considering.
Super Tuesday Party
Posted on January 29, 2008 - Filed Under American Politics, College, Life-In-General | 6 Comments
There is a decent to very good chance that one or both of the US 2008 presidential election candidates will be known by the early hours of Wednesday next week. Given that Barack Obama stands a great chance of becoming president should he prevail over the Clintons’ dirty tactics, February 5th (Super Tuesday, the day [...]
Dr. Boland Redux
Posted on January 28, 2008 - Filed Under College, Life-In-General | 3 Comments
This is the latest idea to take my wavering fancy. It involves taking a GAMSAT test, which I know little about, and which I would have only until the 15th March to study for. Since I’m such a glutton for punishment these days I find this challenge oddly appealing. I’ve no idea how difficult it [...]
Staying Or Leaving
Posted on January 27, 2008 - Filed Under College, Life-In-General | 3 Comments
Central to the pressing matter of what I’m going to do next year is where I’m going to do it. Sometimes Cork doesn’t seem so bad, but other times I want to bolt directly to the other side of the world just to get away from its drab buildings, awful weather and various other minor/major/absolutely [...]
Stupid Waste of Time
Posted on January 23, 2008 - Filed Under Life-In-General | 3 Comments
I wanted grey hair, so I lightened my dyed-black hair three times. I was then informed that grey hair was not really a possibility for me, so I tried dying my hair black again, first with henna (which has never worked for me before, and didn’t work this time either), and then with a red-black [...]
What To Do
Posted on January 19, 2008 - Filed Under College, Life-In-General | 3 Comments
I’ll be graduating from UCC this year, hopefully with a 1.1 in Arts. I like the two subjects I’m studying, Politics and Philosophy, but I don’t know if there’s much point in doing a post-grad in either, beyond prolonging my stay in college. What the hell should I do?
So far I’ve vaguely considered the following:
1. [...]
