Paris was great. My french came back to me and people seemed to understand it! Went to the top of The Eiffel Tower... something I had never done despite having visited it 3 times before. Our hotel was about 2 minutes from the Louvre, we could see it from our window!
Highlight for me was a business man shaking my hand over our shared hatred of Sarkozy!
That and going on the carosel at the bottom of La Tour at night!

We also got strange looks when we had conversations in english and irish at the same time. No offence to any americans (you can't paint everyone with the same brush) but they looked most confused when we had these bi-lingual chats.
I even heard one say "German? No, maybe like Dutch or something". HA!

On Saturday morning I shall be boarding a plane to my most favourite place in the world, PARIS!
I am so excited I can barely contain myself. As cliché as it sounds, I love just wandering aimlessly through streets (well, in safe areas!).
I hope to explore a bit more of the 5th and 6th this time. Our hotel is literally a two minute walk from the Louvre.
You can also, most importantly, spot the street on the Snow Patrol video for Open Your Eyes!
There's a Monoprix supermarche 3 minutes walk from the hotel which (for those who have good geography of Paris) is parallel to Avenue de L'Opera.
I love going on the metro in paris, lifting up the little doorhandles to get out!
Although I once had a bad experience on the metro in another French city, which is really a whole blog in itself, I am optimistic about it this time! I will try and 'Mind the Gap'!

Enough rambling.... I now have to decide which travel guide to bring with me... Time Out, DK, Let's Go, Lonely Planet, Everyman... I couldn't bring them all, could I?

top o' the mornin to ya

colin farrell being oirish in scrubs

rufus wainwright - going to a town
arctic monkeys - fluorescent adolescent (live video)
feist - 1234
digitalism - pogo
grizzly bear - knife
uffie - hot chick
shiny toy guns - you are the one (video)

If Cannes wasn't already beautiful enough...

3 days until

violet ice-cream, grenadine,
buttery croissants, fnac,
jairdins, macaroons,
montmarte, le metro,
cute boutiques........

Oh Mon Dieu Quoi!!

The weather is masquerading as sunny and blue skies. I know this is not the case, the rain is in the wing, waiting to make an (unwanted) appearance.
I love when the sun shines off everything green in the garden, it seriously looks like someone has turned a light on to enhance the bright colours.

Just as I typed that, the clouds covered every visible patch of turquoise sky.

SUMMER IS FINALLY HERE

TO DO LIST

have fun!


It's quite sunny today, sunny enough to put on a dress, some aviators and go and drink champagne with friends.

I hate exams. Tonight I'll watch Desperate Housewives, then Greys is on straight after!!! A few squares of dairy milk and a mug of white tea and there you have a perfect relaxing evening. Cramming day tomorrow, last exam on thursday then finito!

i hate firefox!

There I was wasting my time, creating a nice little post about how adorable baby animals are complete with lots of cute pictures.
Then firefox quit "unexpectedly"!

Anyway here are some baby otters.


That's all you're getting because I'm pissed off now!

I love this mashup.


For mashups on any songs you can think of, go to mashuptown.com.

In three days my exams start.
In two weeks I'll be in Paris.
In four weeks I'll be in Greece.
In two months I'll be.... ????

Right now the only things keeping me sane are:



and



This post has no point.

In other news I posted alot of letters the other day, I love posting mail.

a friend in need?

What is Jacques doing? Fraternising with the likes of yer man.
Mr. Sarkozy is looking very tan after his little holiday.
Ridiculous.

My Downfall......



I think I'm addicted to these chocolates.
Not good when I'm trying to get my body ready for the beach!

inspired by marie...

there's so many things that make me happy....
jaffa cakes.
crying when i laugh with friends, it's been happening so much recently.
alcohol (i agree lamensch). some of the funniest things have happened when i've been drunk... the infamous new years party! also my picture at the top was a result of a drunken night.
music. i love it so much and can't think of life without it. i like all genres, the best of each. lately i've been listening to alot of german and french electro! gigs are brilliant too. my ipod, lillie is like a child to me.
travelling is amazing. i've always been at my happiest when away. the funny thing is, even though i don't exactly love ireland, i love when you meet irish people abroad.
i love being a girl, i love men, i love dresses, i love makeup, i LOVE shopping, i love chickflicks.....
movies and the cinema. big multichain cinemas and cute little arthouse places.
laughing when you shouldn't. i think that is the story of my life, inappropriate laughter!
i love cute little babies. and cute little animals.
food. i love food so much.
i love grey's anatomy and mcdreamy.... he is a gift to women. amazing.
i love clothes....
creme de marron.
writing.
books. there's so many books i want to read.

i think that's it for now.

thanks lamensch, that was fun :D

for all the girls

So tonight two things happened. . .
I went to see Half Nelson


I loved this film. Ryan Gosling is becoming one of my favourite actors. He's amazing in this role, not to mention nice to look at.

Anyway, Sarkozy won the election. 53% was quite close though. I'm just upset because I can understand Royals french better!

This is one of the best stories I've read in a while. What an amazing spirit she must have. She practically guilts me into studying.... So off I go!

Yesterday it was 23degrees! That's quite good for the beginning of May. I bought a few things for holidays today, including two dresses from H&M! They were so cheap and will do me for Paris, Greece and Oxegen!
I am easily pleased.

Today I saw a man dressed as ScoobyDoo walking down Grafton Street, this city gets stranger every day.

I'm scared

I don't want to go to a country ruled by a narrow minded, cocky Nazi!

I just watched some clips of tonights debate between Sarko and Sego. Of what I saw, he comes across extremely arrogent. She was well composed, and polite. Where as he was constantly interuppting her, pointing (which I hate) and generally being rude!
I really don't like him.

Like the Pixies said....

Where Is My Mind?

can't wait

Spiderman 3

Oceans 13 (Brad and George)

Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End (Johnny)


(marie, remember when we went on the POTC ride in Disney and the pirate screamed at me?)

I hate when people back out of plans that they have supposeably commited themselves to. It makes me so pissed off and I hate being angry.

It's probably karma but I still don't like when it happens.

rant over.

I can't stop coughing. It's uncontrollable. When I was on the bus earlier, I could feel people glaring at me.

Also we had a few drinks after class tonight and I took my prescription medicine at the same time. It doesn't say anything about taking them with drink but now I have a splitting headache.

I am coughing my way to bed now.