FRIDAY
Ohhhh man. I am in the middle of a bind. It’s a great bind to be in, I’ll grant you, but it’s still a pickle.
I booked my flight to Paris a week ago but didn’t book a hostel. Now the hostels are all filled up and I’m really not finding anything! Where will I stay? Should I just sneak out to Versailles and sleep there—it looks roomy. This may be the beginning of A [Homeless] American in Paris.
But hey! It’s Paris! That’s cool! And I will get to see my friends Virginie and Pierre (I know) while I’m there too! I have been stuyding up on my travel guide on all the places I want to see, but I have a strange feeling that I’m basically going to spend 3 days bouncing from boulongerie to boulongerie, packing myself with criossants and pain aux chocolates. OH YES!
Ohhhh man. I am in the middle of a bind. It’s a great bind to be in, I’ll grant you, but it’s still a pickle.
I booked my flight to Paris a week ago but didn’t book a hostel. Now the hostels are all filled up and I’m really not finding anything! Where will I stay? Should I just sneak out to Versailles and sleep there—it looks roomy. This may be the beginning of A [Homeless] American in Paris.
But hey! It’s Paris! That’s cool! And I will get to see my friends Virginie and Pierre (I know) while I’m there too! I have been stuyding up on my travel guide on all the places I want to see, but I have a strange feeling that I’m basically going to spend 3 days bouncing from boulongerie to boulongerie, packing myself with criossants and pain aux chocolates. OH YES!
Travelling is good for eating.
So, news on the Irish homefront: Emily got kicked off Big Brother (it’s still on over here! And it’s still creepy!) for calling Charlie a n-word. Charlie was dancing and Emily said “Are you pushing it out you n****?” What is that about?! Who would even say that?! This comes on the heels of someone calling a housemate a “Paki” last season, which raised an uproar in the UK and almost got Big Brother cancelled. I don’t get it. Why do people do stuff like that on international TV? Why do they do it at all? She had to know that would get her sent home? Plus, I hate Charlie and can think of a million other things to call her, none of which refer to her race. Why not just say one of those names instead??
Anyway, other than that the news in Dublin is that the weather has been appalingly gorgeous. It’s been 68 and sunny yesterday and today, forcing me out of doors like a guy holding a piece of fruit outside of a bat cave [cuz bats like fruit….that was prob a bad similie]. I’ve been camped out at my rolling hillside park, which looks like a pretty cemetary with no headstones. The park has a resident golden retriever who has a bad hip and limps around. I want to take him home. I’m sure it will happen one day or another. And there will be fleas. And it will be ungodly.
Lastly, a few great links gratis Mike Pierce. If you were to pick just one, I’d go for the cats.
Owned part 1
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Owned part 2
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u134/chrism623/funny/lol.gif
The Cats
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HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!
THURSDAY: Fookt
Have you been to a meeting with the execs at your company before? Until I came here, I never had. Now, I am in meetings with the CEO, COO, CCO (who’s my boss) and Chairman of the Board every single day. They’ve got a lot of buzzwords, and everyone wears a tie, and there’s plenty of rolling up the shirt sleeves and removing eyeglasses dramatically. But the most effective—and frequent—tool they use…….is “fuck”. I just left a meeting with the exec team not five minutes ago. It was an hour long, held in the board room (seats 15, we were 5 and bumped 2 large meetings to use it) with the door shut. The meeting concerned a quote we are writing. It was pleasant. Here’s the eff word recap:
Fuck [fook]: 5 times
Fucking [fookin]: 9 times
Fucking thing [fookin teng]: 4 times
Fucked [fookt]: 3 times
Unbeknownst to me, companies run on the word “fuck”! Deals are made, alliances are forged, decisions are deliberated…and without the eff word, there would be total corporate ruin. Also mentioned in the meeting 5 times was the word….and I already regret typing this, but it can’t be helped…"erection". It related to a cell phone tower we’re building. Tee hee!
ANYWAY, Sarah Giraud has officially left the country. :( We had a great time last night though; we went to Zanzibar and Clarendon and Dakota, which made it an altogether swanky-danky night. I tried the new Guinness North Star Brew. It’s a, get this, dark Guinness. Basically, this Guinness is so dense, that if you pour a glass larger than a pint, it implodes on itself thereby creating a black hole. I had one pint and I’m still full. (Kaitlyn, you would attack this beer) But it was a fun night. And I got in at 1, again, so I am absolutely “knackered”, which the Irish and Brits say for exhausted. Also “fagged”, but I’ll hold off on that one.
Tonight Sarah’s friend Kate is coming over and we’re having dinner or something, then I’m going to bed at fookin 7. HOW ARE THE STATES?! How is Michigan? Hot? I bet you’re hot. It’s 65…again…in Ireland. This country’s so small, the weather forecast is for the whole country. Sunny and 65 (well, 16 Celsius, but let’s not go there), with a good freaking chance of rain sometime today.
It’s been 65 every single day since I got here. Am I jinxing it? I’m from Michigan, so I am naturally afraid to even imply that I’m complaining about good weather, because in MI that’s when the weather immediately changes and you get a glacier in your front yard.
Have a good Thursday. Think of me over here, enjoying my view of now 48 cranes (I counted all the way around the office today). Big Ralph, the yellow crane over in the corner has been spinning like a dervish all day, and Lil Greenie looks like he’s taking a nappito. Aw, lil greenie. [Please give me my good view back!!!!!]
YES you put the link of the little kid on the bike. by far my fav, esp when i picture mike flipping like that on a moped. except, when i picture it in my head, i still picture mike but it's on that little bike. weird, but funnier.
ReplyDeleteI WANT THIS NEW GUINNESS!! can you export it out of the country? i'd say throw it in a thermos for me when you come back in august, but i think that'll lose the flavaa. the US needs to catch on to that shiz.