Friday morning

I can't get over how much I like the new Converge album. It's really something. I always feel guilty getting a hold of music before its released, but it's set to be in the mail in about 4 days anyway, plus I won't even get it until I go home. Bummer. Brutal and abrasive, as they all are, but this one is a goddamn nightmare.

In other news about me, I got the TA spot for next semester for Adolescent Development. I'm pretty happy about that, hopefully I'll get whatever I hope to gain from it. It's that time again to start thinking about next year's classes. Spring semester always seems to drag on a little longer for me anyway than fall. I don't think it should be too bad this time around. As far as I can tell, its mostly education and history from here on out. And gym, since UVM is fatties.

It's about 11am here. I don't have class for over an hour. I wish there wasn't so much down time here, and I really should be doing other work. I have essays to prepare for and write, but even those don't sound so overwhelming. I should have picked up an extra class.

I get to spend this weekend with Jen(n). I'm going down to meet her in Belfast today after class, and we're going to spend the night and half of saturday there. We'll come back up here and she'll be here for a couple of days. Hopefully the weather isn't as dismal as it's threatening to be so we can get outside.

What the fuck am I going to do for Halloween?

Listening to: Converge, The Murder City Devils

Don't read this

Fire drills are always fun. I know there are a lot of people who get into college without an ounce of common sense, but come on: doesn't everyone know at this point what to fucking do when you here an annoying and LOUD beeping going off in the middle of the night? No? Well I do but I guess my school still has doubts about their students.

I guess I can't really blame them. I was outside standing in the rain with everyone else, and to my surprise saw a kid wearing an ISIS tshirt. I walked up to him and pretty much bared my soul to compliment his taste in music, (sidenote, I swear to god that I was there when kid on my floor said that Muse was the best English band to come out of the U.K. since Queen) and he snubbed me! He just walked on by me. In retrospect, I guess I don't really know what we could have talked about besides "what bands do you like?-oh, you like them too?-that's special...", but still I was surprised nonetheless. Perhaps he was extremely hungry.

I just bought the reissue of Wowee Zowee, more music that I won't get until I go home. Fabulous.

Listening to: Kill Your Idols, The Minutemen

There is nothing happening. The weekend was kind of a drag overall. Friday was nice, spent the afternoon on the beach. Saturday at Castlerock was cool, and so was the performance of Faustus I went to that evening. But after that and pretty much all of Sunday I spent inside, trying to get some work done. Didn't get a lot accomplished. It was hard for me to concentrate and I would distract myself pretty easily. Tonight I'm gonna try to find some other books at the library for my upcoming papers.

A full course load here is three classes. I don't know why. Students could take as many as five here. I'm taking three because I figured why the hell not, and spend as much time as I could travelling around. Now I wish I had taken at least four. Students here are slackers. Everyone knows it too. The courses are pretty lax and there aren't strict policies whatsoever. So why am I concerned? I hope I don't go back to school next semester with this attitude. People have told me that Americans work too hard. This may very well be true, but seriously, I would enjoy some work right now. No real assignments coming my way. I don't even get credit for showing up to class.

Today has kinda sucked. The most excitement that I have made for myself was my orange juice/maple syrup curry sauce that I made up as I went. It was actually pretty good. Bought a lot of dried fruits and some nuts at Tesco today. This week cannot move fast enough. Really this is the last place I wanna be, and at this point I'm getting kinda sick being around the same people. I think I only really notice this because this is the longest I have been on campus. Really, up until last weekend, it felt like I had been travelling non stop since September 6th when I left in the first place. In a sense, thats the truth. I've been gone every weekend, leaving early on Thursdays and Fridays. I guess thats why this weekend was a bit of a let down. Jen(n)'s out in Cork without me doing cool shit and I'm here reading record reviews instead of Irish history or poems.

I shouldn't complain too much, or even worry. I'll be in Belfast again this weekend, and so will Jen(n). I'm pumped, that city is awesome. I want to see the Botanic Gardens again, but this time at night. Also, check out the Ulster Museum again, and maybe spend a little more time in the northern part of the city. Jen(n) will be up here Saturday and Sunday night, thankfully, and hopefully we can go to the beach or even to the Giant's Causeway maybe. I can't wait to cook food for more than one person, listen to some music I haven't heard in a long time, drink too much coffee, take walks and see the coast.

Listening to: Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Rites of Spring