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...
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