Snowpocalypse

I can't believe we've not only gotten snow twice in the one year, but proper, sticks to the ground, lasts more than a day, omg it's properly freezing out snow. January (and the end of December) felt like a fluke. You know that once in however many decades, I-remember-when-I-was-young kind of cold. My Granny had even said that the last time she remembered cold that bad was back in the early 60s around the time one of my uncles was born. And yet here we are with the same weather in the same year only with more snow. It's largely thawed out by now (although it took it's time) but by the looks of the long range forecast we're in for more.

These were taken Wednesday afternoon (1 December). This is already a pretty decent amount of snow for Dublin. (click pictures to embiggen)


And then we got a lot more snow. Not just Wednesday afternoon but it didn't stop snowing on Thursday. As in foot prints don't reach the ground and you can't make out where the path or road begin. (That bit that looks a bit like the path is actually a small wall that the fence comes out of.)




I think the back garden pics give a better perspective on how deep the snow was.




I know for a lot of people this doesn't look like much snow but for Ireland it is. We can handle a lot of wind and rain but we're not a climate of extremes so when we get any kind of extreme it's a big deal. Looking at the current weather warning and long range forecast we've definitely got more on the way.

First Essay of the Semester

... and I'm procrastinating so bad. It's not even proper procrastination where I actively look for other things to do (well, aside from posting this) it's more I'll be reading and my mind just wanders off in a different direction. 'As Jean Baudrillard suggests in the case of ... blah object blah subject blah ... Wait, what did that paragraph say?' It probably doesn't help that the article I'm currently reading has the combination of a smaller than usual font size and a lot of dense sentences with many syllable words. The irony of all this is that I had planned to get all this done early but than my computer died and I lost any chance of getting work done between not having my laptop and then trying to fix everything.
It can also just be frustrating that an essay that's only 1,000 words and only worth 10% requires so much work. Then again I personally think I'm terrible at handling short essays. I always read and plan too much and end up having to leave loads out. The joy of editing. I want to be done by Wednesday because I'm not home most of Thursday and I don't want to have to be frantically trying to write on essay on my bday when it's due. I think my main problem is my mind thinking 'hey you've written a heck of a lot more than that in one day'. Which is true, I got 3,000 in a day before, but it doesn't mean I want to have to do it.

I was going to post a .gif but apparently it just stays as a static picture which saddens me. Have some Grover instead. He doesn't get enough love nowadays.

And so begins my regular posting ...

... or at least I hope so now that everything is back in swing again after the summer. I started back college last Monday, I'm happily volunteering and hey TV shows are starting back.


Friday night was Culture Night. Culture Night is an annual event which started in Dublin and has spread throughout the country where various cultural institutions open their doors to the public for free with lots of extra tours, events and entertainment. The queues alone for some places were insane and one of my sisters couldn't believe how packed town was with people.

I didn't get to see as much as I wanted because I was waiting on said sister to help her get her stuff into town so I got in later than planned. I did enjoy a choir singing and a tour in the National Gallery of Ireland as well as a tour in the National Library of Ireland and wandering around their exhibitions.
I think next year I should have a full scale plan. Or even better, I vote next year it's Culture Day or Culture Weekend.

New Blog ...

... kinda.

I want to make a decent go at blogging (yeah I know) so I've decided to start a new one. My old ones still there in my profile but I'm not going to be updating that anymore (like that's such a loss). Anyway this is just me setting things up to my liking til I start posting.