rain, rain go away...

ok, so i know moving to a country like ireland it would rain, A LOT.
but seriously.
its a lot more rain then i prefer.
especially in the summer, when it is supposed to be slightly less rainy.
we had less rain in the winter.

so it has been raining a lot, and not just rain. wind and rain.
like huge crazy rainstorms, then a few minutes of sun, then more crazy storms.
it is ridiculous.
it is not as bad as last summer though, something like 85 straight days of rain, began in june and then finally stopped in august. thank god i was not around for that, i would have refused to leave my house.

anyway, enough of a rant about the weather.
i'll be home in a few days to warm weather and sunshine.

so things here are good, nothing really super fun. mostly thesis and work.
i reached 14000 words on thursday, and i'm trying to summon the motivation to write another 1000-1500 today. my meeting with andy went well on thursday. chapter one needs some work, but i had trouble writing some of it, so his advice was helpful. chapter two is grand, just need some minor adjustments. so yay! thursday evening i was going to be all cozy and read a book with a cup of tea, but kara texted me wanting to go grab ice cream. and who am i to refuse ice cream? so we met up with steph and had some fabulous ice cream. and then after getting back home we deided to head back into town to go to the brog. not my favourite pub, but it was still fun.

friday was happy independence day. went to the gym, then work. and then kara and i met for lunch and had bagels and ran some errands in town. and on the walk home it started to pour, and so i decided the afternoon was perfect to curl up with movies and tea. then a friend from wac is in cork for the weekend, so we hung out and caught up on all the wac gossip. then we talked about history and edublock. damn, i miss wac. so the original plan kara, steph and i came up with on thursday was to go to captain america's for dinner, and be all american. well the weather kinda detered us, so dave and i just went over to their's and we ordered in pizza. so that was fun. then dave and i headed into town for a few pints.

so today i've been enjoying my saturday, reading and cooking up a fun lunch for dave and i. and the attempt at the thesis failed. so we'll see how that goes. kara is coming over in a bit and kara and i will be watching movies and chatting. so a nice saturday night in. tomorrow we are going to the pub to watch the cork /kerry munster football final. and it should be goood, they are huge rivals. they played each other in the all ireland final last september and cork lost. kerry are amazing at football, and cork is pretty good. but hurling is cork's sport. so that should be good craic. and of course the thesis.

happy saturday!