Cyanide and Happiness

My current favourite online thingymajig is the Cyanide and Happiness comic on explosm.net
They make me laugh or cringe in the right amounts.




Also, I would just like to say:
Ponies!! <3
The smell of sun and hay always reminds me of being a kid galloping through fields, completely happy. I can't wait till I make good on my birthday present and escape to Castle Leslie with a friend to ride ponies through the lake and read books on picnic blankets.

Old age and gold shoes.

I just had to edit my info to say '22' instead of '21'. Yes, that's right, I am now IN MY TWENTIES. Oh dear. Pass the zimmerframe please, I think my hip's giving out.
Thankfully its probably from too much dancing to this:



and trying to pick up Fatness for cuddles.

Last night I went to see Marianne Faithfull play at the new theatre in Grand Canal Dock and it was a really great show. Threatening to distract me from the music, however, were my friend Violet's GOLD HIGH HEELED TRAINERS. So practical/impractical, so gold, so...awesome.

Summer Days

June is my favourite month of the year :)
The whole summer lies ahead; right now it feels like forever until September.
Earlier this lovely month some friends and myself went over to York in England and it is such a beautiful and nice place to be, especially when the sun is shining like it was during our stay. I fell in love with the second hand bookshops, especially the one beside the Minster that is 5 floors of tiny, creaking book lined rooms. Evil Eye Lounge was a cool place for hanging out (Johnny Depp's favourite bar in England apparently!) and there was loads of cool small shops like Purple Haze and the Cat Gallery.




Mostly we just did a whole lot of this :)

Upon my return to Dublin it was raining, but that soon cleared up and since then the weather has been ACTUALLY warm! Amazing. I went for Bloomsday swim in Sandycove, which was not very warm at all but very nice, and if you kind of squinted and ignored all the cars and buses and billboards and just focused on the people dressed up in straw hats you could pretend it was a different time, which is always fun.


I'm currently reading a novel written by someone I actually know, which is very exciting! Its called Strangers In America and its by a girl called Erika Meyers from Ohio, who is studying for Creative Writing Masters at UCD with James Ryan, the man himself who gave me the writing exercise that turned in The Beautiful People. I'm really enjoying the book, which is about a girl called Helena, the adopted daughter of adopted parents, who works as an exterminator. I'll write more about it when I'm finished, for now I'm just turning pages and thinking 'YES! It IS possible! Go write a novel!'.

After all my going on about the nice weather, it looks like its actually going to rain today. I guess its the perfect time to get writing...