OH HEY ALL I finally decided to update, mostly because my life is just oh so exciting…ish. The girls had a bake night over at Katie and Rafa’s on Thursday, which was so fun! Rafa and I made my favorite dense chocolate cake, Claire made cookies, Katie made lemon bars, and Alyssa made Rice Krispie Treats…with PINK MARSHMALLOWS. And they totally taste pink too, I swear. For my recipe we were supposed to use a double boiler, but obvs these school kitchens don’t have them so we MacGyvered one out of a frying pan and pot of water. Epic win. Everything turned out great and we totally stuffed ourselves beyond reason. I did skip practice for it, though also my knee hurt, and I def felt guilty after…damn this Bowdoin guilt! Luckily the game Tuesday was cancelled, because I wasn’t going to go anyway. We would leave at 12, and I would be missing 2 classes, one of which only meets on Tuesday. This near the end of the semester I just don’t want to be so behind. Not fun times. On that note, I have 2 essays due: one on Tuesday and one on Friday. However, I’m missing Thursday and Friday to fly to London, so essentially that last essay is due Wednesday. Fml. In true college fashion I’ve just been watching TV, partially because the essays are hard to think about cause we haven’t actually learned a lot of stuff, and partially cause I love Jersey Shore now. I can’t help it…please don’t judge me too hard. It’s like a train wreck—I just can’t look away!!
Friday Rafa and I went shopping, finally, and I got working earbuds woooooooooooot so now I don’t only hear half of songs. Also I bought lots of food noms, including more pasta and chicken to put in the pasta. I’m regressing to my beginning-food choices. Om nom nom. But I did make mashed potatoes and chicken last week, and I bought more so I could make it again except this time I have peas too! I heart peas in mashed potatoes.
Saturday was my archaeology field trip! Another early wakeup…I’m always so tired and, yes, I know I stay up late, but I still think 8am is freaking early. First we saw the Labbacallee Wedge Tomb, which is one of the biggest wedge tombs in Ireland. It is, indeed, shaped like a wedge both in profile and aerial views, with the wide entrance always facing west. Pictures are up, but the largest capstone weighs 10 tonnes, and may have been brought from several kilometers away! Those Neolithic peoples were ballers. Anyway, the bones of an elderly woman (in her 40s…ahahaha how does that make you guys feel, parental units) were buried in the most sacred, eastern chamber, which is rare and indicates that she was of some importance. Interesting fact: ‘Labbacallee’ roughly translates to ‘grave of the wise woman’ or ‘grave of the witch.’ The best part is that the area known as Labbacallee wasn’t named until 14th century or so, while the wedge tomb was built in the Late Neolithic (2800 BC or so). There must have been some sort of oral tradition handed down that influenced the naming of the town, since there’s no way that’s a coincidence. Then we went to Glanworth Castle, which was pretty cool. On a hill, good views. It did start raining and it was really windy, but other than that pretty nice. We went to a little coffee shop in Cashel where I got hot chocolate with pink marshmallows. Idk why Ireland loves pink marshmallows so much…weird. Then we walked to the Rock of Cashel, which is a huge site on top of a hill surrounded by cliffs looking out over the farmlands. It’s really beautiful, actually. It was the seat of power for the old Irish kings before the Anglo-Normans came in shifted power. Then it was a monastery given to the Church by, bear with me, Muircheartach Ua Briain (mur-tak o’brian…roughly) in 1101 and there’s a huge Gothic Cathedral built later in the 13th century. There’s also this little chapel, Cormac’s Chapel, with lots of frescos on the walls and ceiling which are very very rare to find in a church in Ireland. Anyway, we explored, it rained, I slept on the way home.
I went over to watch a comedy dance show with Claire, Susan, Alyssa, and Alyssa’s bf Brian (who ALSO knows Sarah Brokaw…hi Sarah!) after I passed out for a bit at home. It’s for Red Nose Day, where Comic Relief raises money for various causes. This program was basically comics doing parody dances, and some of them were hilarious. This one 60 yr old comedienne, Lulu, did ‘Soulja Boy,’ complete with dance moves. Amazing. Then Noel Fielding did ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Kate Bush. Has anyone seen that music vid? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4 It’s quite odd, and Noel actually did this version of it, with the red dress: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW3gKKiTvjs&feature=player_embedded . Trust me, watch them. Also donate money!! It’s a good cause and the people who participate are HILARIOUS. Do iiiiiiiiiit.
Slán go fóill!
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