I spent most of last weekend curled up on the couch with a blanket and a cup of tea, watching simpsons episodes one after the other. Outside, the wind heaved itself against the house, branches flailing everywhere and rain falling against the windows in gusts and patches. There is a chill in the wind now and the people I see while walking to work in the mornings are sporting scarves and fleecy mitts more often than bare arms and sunglasses.

Tomorrow is my last day in Dublin. Today I will clean out my desk, consolidate my notes and review my courses for next week one more time. I’ll do another review on Thursday and again all day on Friday. I can hardly wait to eat dinner at home with my hubby every night, and sleep in my own bed and not have to wake up at 5:30am every monday morning. But I do think I’ll miss the atmosphere on the project, the multicultural people everywhere and a fellow canadian to make hockey/snow/donut jokes with. not to mention the shops in dublin! I think I’ve bought more clothes in the past 7 months than I have ever before in my life. sometimes I think I might have a problem, but then I try on my red shoes with my new blue skirt and everything is right in the world again.

I’ve been finding it hard to write updates lately, for several reasons. Most of my existence is being taken up with work, which isn’t the most exciting or internet-worthy aspect of my life. and blogging is starting to feel a bit empty, a bit one-sided. If I were more of a pontificator, if I had a taller soapbox maybe my blog would be more interesting and spark a bit more debate. But as it is it’s starting to feel a little unnecessary. I hope that when life settles back into a routine conducive to me actually having a life outside of work my blog will perk up a bit. I’d love to do a re-design, and transfer my photos over to the new coppermine software. soon we will go places and take pictures of things other than flowers, what novelty!

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