Diary

Everytime you drop the bomb

I've just come across this.
The System of a Down video by Michael Moore. I used to watch it three years ago, and then my hard disc crashed and I lost it and completely forgot about it.
Good to see it again though!

Note: the lyrics go "manufacturing consent is the name of the game"... Can I detect some reference to Chomsky here? :-)

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Can I brag a little?

I need to boost my self-esteem at the moment.

Go here.
It's my ex-university's library.
Click on Library Catalogue and type my surname in Author....
Tadaaaa!

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I'm still alive...

... but too busy/tired/with better things to do than update the blog (tick the appropriate answer).
After a busy Paddy's day week-end and a week on the verge of catching the flu for good, I need to rest.
Hey, I'm not 20 anymore!
See yez all.

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Monday again....

Time goes by so fast.Let’s hope this week will be better than the last: apart from eating birthday cakes on Monday, Tuesday and Friday (it’s Revenge of the Pisces at work these days), I officially turned a year older but was treated to a nice restaurant in the evening.
How do you know you’re getting old? When your dentist is younger than you…no kidding!

Then I received on Wednesday a letter saying that I wasn’t shortlisted for an interview for THE job I was sure I would get, I was saying to myself when I applied “if I don’t get an interview for that one, I’ll go crazy!”. So there you go….

Then I had my Chinese class on Wednesday, and it’s getting really difficult now. All the words sound the same, I’m getting confused. Wanted a challenge? well I guess I’m having it big time, 谢谢.

By the end of the week, I was The Saviour at work again, training new staff, from CS reps to the distribution manager, helping the accounts department on invoicing for the UK because the UK people didn’t have a clue, the lets-ask-Sandrine-she’ll-know thing.
Just a quick reminder though: I was overlooked for promotion 4 months ago. I feel painfully taken for granted in Botoxland.

Then, another visit to the dentist on Friday afternoon, and a treatment plan that will cost me a lot of money. Of course, neither PRSI (for which I’m tax-deducted on every payroll) nor my private insurance (for which I pay as well) will cover it. So my iPod will have to wait (again).

Well, to forget about that week and the dentist bill awaiting me, I needed some retail therapy (don’t try and find a logic), splashed some cash in Dundrum and walked around for about 3 hours to find trousers that actually fit my curvy Continental ass and that were not 100 euros.

A musical on Saturday night with Aoife (Zeussical, the Cat in the Hat stuff, instant feel-good show) in the Ruppert Guinness Theatre cheered me up again, and we finished the night in a quiet, old-fashioned, slightly-dodgy local, drinking Vodka and Coke. To finish the week off nicely, Tom and I went to Dun Laoghaire on Sunday and had good-ol’ Irish food in a nice pub while watching France kick some English asses on a rugby pitch.

CONCLUSION: I’m enjoying my week-ends a lot more than my weeks.

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Frank Caliendo on the Letterman show

This man does have an eye for observation!

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A bear, a lion and a chicken

A bear, a lion and a chicken meet.

Bear says: "if I roar in the forest, the entire forest in shivering with fear".

Lion says: "If I roar in the desert, the entire desert is afraid of me".

Says the chicken: "Big deal, I only have to cough, and the entire planet shits itself!".

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