Easiest weight loss plan ever!

Step 1: move to Dublin or similar city for three months.Step 2: live in an area that requires at least an hour of walking every day to get where you need to go.Step 3: no need to change your eating habits! As a matter of fact, throw in massive amounts of chocolate as well!Step 4: [...]

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Nearly adjusted

I feel like I’ve been living in some mid-Atlantic time zone the past couple days–I go to bed at the right time for this time zone, and wake up at the right time, but round about 4pm I start to feel like it may either be 7pm or midnight. Surely by tonight I’ll be [...]

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Home!

It took a while to get clear of Chicago last night, and there was maybe a wrong turn that was my fault (but really, why would you listen to a woman who had been awake for that many hours, and more importantly, living in a country where the signs don’t make a great deal of [...]

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I’m leaving!

My flight leaves at 2:15 (Aer Lingus 125 for those playing along with www.flytecomm.com) and I’ll be going back in time to reach Chicago at 4:30 central time. Unless, of course, I have the kick-ass pilot of the year that spouse got last time.See y’all there!

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Last night here!

Who’d have known I’d be sad to be leaving? I mean come on, I’m getting to go back to my lovely huzz-band, my friends, and in the general vicinity of my family…and to Mexican food (let’s not forget Mexican food…I can taste the refried beans already). But I’m also leaving a city where just [...]

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Oh, the humidity!

Which is obviously NOT what that guy said when he saw the Hindenburg blow up. But oh, the humidity. It’s cool-ish, but with oppressive humidity. My palms are all sweaty, my hair started in the “down” position this morning in spite of its best efforts to keep to routine and extend straight [...]

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Four days…four days

If you don’t count today, of course. It’s 4pm here and so the day is almost gone. I managed to pass most of it sleeping and talking to The Strongest Man in High School, so score one for me!Tomorrow I’m meeting a professor at UCD who did her dissertation in 2003 on most [...]

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All right

Due to the failure of the “Name Thyself” experiment I’m going to have to actually expend some effort and give y’all nicknames that you may not even want, and almost certainly won’t make a damn bit of sense. Like Knuckles, or P-Nut, or various letters followed by “Dog” or, dare I say, “Shizzle.” [...]

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And now it’s time for the audience to participate!

I have absolutely nothing to report. Perfectly uneventful experiences with public transportation, same ol’ same ol’ trudging along in the archives and library, perfectly uneventful and merely satisfying meals (except that tuna steak for dinner was quite tasty, as it often is), and that about sums up my day. My hair is getting [...]

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Let the games begin!

The last giant heave towards the finish line! I have very little to report except I’m heading down to UCD Thursday to read a dissertation and meet my friend from way-back for lunch or something, and then back down Monday to meet the woman who wrote the dissertation and is now a professor there. [...]

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