Posts Tagged ‘dublin’

Posted on January 31, 2007 - by John

Another Strange Rant – John in Dublin

I have to admit, and well I don’t want to admit, but I’m going to. I love trash TV, surprise, surprise. Desperate Housewives is one such show that I love to watch every Tuesday, for the past few weeks myself and a friend (male also – how sad are we) watch it together via MSN, strange as this sounds is actually lots of fun, this friend has also got me hooked on another show called Shameless, this show is just excellent, but I never seem to get a chance to watch it. You can imagine my dismay yesterday when I had to miss my shows to work. My friend called me at work, to tell me it was sad that I was so pi**ed off about missing a TV show, but its my Tuesday night – you know.

I’m starting to be a bit adventurous in Dublin – a bit. And it’s paying off, I now have three new friends, and two of them are not Irish, not that race makes a difference, it’s just its new to have non Irish friends (for me), well new for a country boy in Dublin anyway. Going out a good bit now too and actually starting to enjoy Dublin for a change.

Cheers for S for showing me around Dublin last Sunday night ^_^

Posted on January 5, 2007 - by John

Ch-Changes

I have decided to stay in Dublin (pending approval from my department currently) which means, my transfer to Limerick won’t happen (obviously). This decision on my part like many of my life changing decisions usually get debated about in my head for weeks, but are enacted so fast I wonder if I really did it, and then question the motive behind the action. So I am going to write here about why I did it (summary), excluding work related reasons, it’s my policy not to write about my work.

Number one reason I guess is, I have decided to give Dublin a chance, although I have been here about six months already going on seven at this stage, I have yet to properly go out in Dublin to explore and meet new people, although I do have a few odd friends, the fact that I go to Limerick most weekends means that when in Dublin, I just work. So that is changing gradually, and although I found and still find many aspects of living in the city daunting I will plough on. I really miss walking/jogging in the wilds of Tipperary with the dog (and our wild cat shadowing us from a distance)

Two – new friends’ and new things to do, – self explanatory

Three – personal life – and again I wont write about that on here – too boring and private

That’s it really – but it’s enough, my family and friends are peeved off a bit about me not coming home – but there you are.
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