Ah Will and Grace

Monday Tuesday recap: nothing terribly exciting. Watched MILK on Monday, good movie, learned a lot about the Gay Rights Movement, and on Tuesday I went out to Monroe's and met up with Mandy and ran into a couple of others and had some good craic while enjoying the music and the dancing!

Today: So I have officially not done any hw at all today, well, I did some this morning. But, I have just finished watching season 8. This means that I have now caught it from beginning to end (unless there were some episodes Kayla caught without me last summer or two summers ago on our Branson vacation when this marathon began-only such a long time coming b/c the eighth season only recently came out).

Weather in Galway is starting to remind me too much of KC's bipolarness. Take today for example. When I went outside this morning, it was snowing. My walk to school was more rainy. Then the precipitation stopped. On my walk home, sleet. As I rounded the corner to my apartment, hard little balls of hail, that, with the help of the wind, freakin hit my face and hurt! My tiredness all day + the reasonable amount of sleep that I get leads me to believe that the weather really does affect my mood or general state of well-being. Not that I wasn't happy today, I just know that I am much happier when the sun is out, like yesterday, walking in the rain wasn't too bad b/c the sun was out. In all honestly, I've been really lucky and have not had to make as many rainy treks as the stereotype about Ireland would have suggested.

So... classes today were good. In Irish we learned a song: Óró ´sé do Bheatha bhaile. Which, in my phonetic notes sounds more like "oh-roh shay du vaha walia" if that gives you any idea of how amazingly different Irish is ;) Here is a pretty version I found on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VqEtpOdhTE&NR=1 It was really fun, and the chorus is stuck in my head now. I think I got the best deal with Irish professors, Dathi ("da-hee") is awesome! We stray a lot from the book and learn more practical/fun stuff!

Braving the winds/precipitation, I came back and just watched W&G. When Irene returned, she surprised me with a little travel packet of tissues, fun part, it has Wall-E on the front!!!! I got so lucky with my roommie! And I'm getting more and more excited for tomorrow night, girl's night with movie and ice cream. Irene just picked out Beauty and the Beast, possibly helping me love her even more!! I love the cultural exchange too. Haha, like today, I learned that "Squirt" from finding nemo isn't "squirt' in Italian, and that instead of "dude", Crush repeatedly says "ciao bella!" Pretty sweet! Oh, and Irene, poor girl, was up til like 5 working on her paper she told me (it never wakes me, she worries she wakes me when she stays up late, I worry I wake her when I wake up early, neither one of us bothers the other, it's perfect!) but she told me "Did you know that you talk in your sleep?" hahaha, I asked if she was able to make any of it out, she wasn't able to. She didn't know if it was because it was in English or if it was because I didn't actually make coherent sense, probably a bit of both!

Now I'm going to go look at what I might want to study for my social stratification paper (US classes or social stratification within higher education?) and study that song a bit more for tomorrow's class!