Snarky bastard. Northern Exposure was Alaska. It's sunny today. The weather here does not understand progression.
Pub tour sounds great. Ireland has great pub lunches -- fresh meat, potatoes, and vegetables, for about $5. You should go and take the tour at Kilmainham Gaol while you're in Dublin. Great history tour, but also an awesome building. It's the jail where the arrested members of each uprising since British invasion/occupation have been kept, including those from 1916. So in one tour, you get a history of jail architecture (how can you NOT love that?), a history of Ireland's uprisings, and a sense of what prison must have been like. Good stories. Also check out Trinity's campus. There are probably great cheap pubs nearby. We went thorough Shannon, but I don't remember much about it.
Oh, and that's a horrid comment. I plan on traveling both with and without my s.o. (the current one, and ones after, if that happens) for the rest of my life. If he doesn't like to travel, we will have issues. You definitely better find a woman who wants to travel, or you're going to be pissed off and bored and she's going to wonder why you can't sit still. I don't think it's necessarily the Relationship that pins you down. It's kids. Who the hell wants to travel with kids? (Spent a lot of time in airports in the last week....)
I'm working on a new research project and need raw data. What are your favorite television shows? I would much prefer stuff that's on right now, but classics will work. I'm sure I can get a hold of them somewhere. I have a theory I'm trying to prove.
13 May 2004
SNOW?!?!?!?
[doubles over in laughter]
That's Northern Exposure for ya.
Yeah, Susan--it's your car, you should name it. K.A.R.R. and I have become pretty close over our five-year relationship, and he's never let me down. If I can think of anything cool, though, I'll let you know.
Oh, I didn't mention I'm going on a Pub Tour in Ireland in 14 days? Man, I thought I told you guys everything that was going on with me :) I figured I need to get these trips in before some female finally pins me down... a friend wanted to go to Spain, but I pushed for Ireland... that whole Madrid bombing helped out a bit, unfortunately. So we're off to Dublin and Galway for a few days to make some new friends over a pint or two or three or thirty-four, who's counting? Last night we watched a PBS special on DVD "Ancient Ireland"... pretty boring stuff, but the included "Over Ireland" was an amazing fly over video showing all the major locales... beautiful, beatiful stuff. I can hardly wait. Wish I was going for a month instead of a few days. More to follow.
Okay, $3. That's my final offer.
[doubles over in laughter]
That's Northern Exposure for ya.
Yeah, Susan--it's your car, you should name it. K.A.R.R. and I have become pretty close over our five-year relationship, and he's never let me down. If I can think of anything cool, though, I'll let you know.
Oh, I didn't mention I'm going on a Pub Tour in Ireland in 14 days? Man, I thought I told you guys everything that was going on with me :) I figured I need to get these trips in before some female finally pins me down... a friend wanted to go to Spain, but I pushed for Ireland... that whole Madrid bombing helped out a bit, unfortunately. So we're off to Dublin and Galway for a few days to make some new friends over a pint or two or three or thirty-four, who's counting? Last night we watched a PBS special on DVD "Ancient Ireland"... pretty boring stuff, but the included "Over Ireland" was an amazing fly over video showing all the major locales... beautiful, beatiful stuff. I can hardly wait. Wish I was going for a month instead of a few days. More to follow.
Okay, $3. That's my final offer.
12 May 2004
QUICK POST
First, IT'S FUCKING SNOWING HERE. WHAT THE FUCK??? IT'S MAY 12.
Second, yes, Susan found the perfect car with the perfect group of wacked out owners. Gertrude and I, however, refuse to participate in naming the Cooper. She will have her own name, and anything you can assign will be like naming a cat, redundant and misleading.
Third, if the Relationship is good, you can ask certain favors of a partner. As in, you are allowed to say "this one habit you have really bugs the shit out of me. Are you willing to modify it a little?" But you can't say "change a basic tenet of your nature." You can't ask a non-communicative person to be communicative. You can ask him to try to open up to you, but that's about it and good luck.
Fourth, I think we've all been where Mark was. If you've put time and effort and emotion, specifically love, into a Relationship, it's hard to just say "hey, this doesn't work. See ya." And there's that line you have to find -- you have to work at a relationship to make it good and make it work, but at what point is it so much work that you're forcing something that doesn't exist? The difference here, however, is that Susan's pouring work into something that MAY exist at some point in the future, not something that is a standing relationship. If a Relationship requires that much effort from the get-go, I have to think that signals a problem.
Fifth: Ireland? More please?
Sixth: Fuck $5. We'll take a camcorder and make millions ourselves off our hot witty conversation. We're hiring the writers from the Gilmore Girls. And I get Luke.
First, IT'S FUCKING SNOWING HERE. WHAT THE FUCK??? IT'S MAY 12.
Second, yes, Susan found the perfect car with the perfect group of wacked out owners. Gertrude and I, however, refuse to participate in naming the Cooper. She will have her own name, and anything you can assign will be like naming a cat, redundant and misleading.
Third, if the Relationship is good, you can ask certain favors of a partner. As in, you are allowed to say "this one habit you have really bugs the shit out of me. Are you willing to modify it a little?" But you can't say "change a basic tenet of your nature." You can't ask a non-communicative person to be communicative. You can ask him to try to open up to you, but that's about it and good luck.
Fourth, I think we've all been where Mark was. If you've put time and effort and emotion, specifically love, into a Relationship, it's hard to just say "hey, this doesn't work. See ya." And there's that line you have to find -- you have to work at a relationship to make it good and make it work, but at what point is it so much work that you're forcing something that doesn't exist? The difference here, however, is that Susan's pouring work into something that MAY exist at some point in the future, not something that is a standing relationship. If a Relationship requires that much effort from the get-go, I have to think that signals a problem.
Fifth: Ireland? More please?
Sixth: Fuck $5. We'll take a camcorder and make millions ourselves off our hot witty conversation. We're hiring the writers from the Gilmore Girls. And I get Luke.
11 May 2004
Wow. Looks like we're back in business. Just some quick thoughts:
--I dig the new blogger interface.
--That's a pretty good list, Kate--you can tell a lot about a person by what things they'd put in such a list. You may not be the war-monger I normally like to vote for, but if you ever run for President, you've got my vote. Just promise me you'll blow up some random country, if elected :) Oh yeah, I think the Bellagio in Vegas is simply one of the most beautiful buildings I've ever seen.
--Susan, the beautiful thing about the Internet is that people can obsess over anything at all. Even better, they can get together in groups and go over every detail... sounds like you'll fit in quite well with the Mini owners :) Some of those gift and decor ideas sounded pretty cool. I want the movie rights to you and Kate's road trip, tenatively titled "Thelma and Louise 2004". I'll give you five dollars for 'em.
--Sounds like I missed one hell of a party :)
--I don't know so much about there's NO way you can fudge things with a guy. I admit it ain't bloody likely you're gonna get a guy to change, but you have to remember there are social stigmas at work behind the scenes. They don't call it pussy-whipped for nothing. However, you are right in that certain major things do already have to be there, you can't make them happen, no matter what you do. My last relationship lasted way longer than it probably should have because I refused to give up on it, despite it not really being ideal. I thought I could just deal with it. When it all caught up to me, man, it wasn't pretty.
Countdown to Ireland: 16
--I dig the new blogger interface.
--That's a pretty good list, Kate--you can tell a lot about a person by what things they'd put in such a list. You may not be the war-monger I normally like to vote for, but if you ever run for President, you've got my vote. Just promise me you'll blow up some random country, if elected :) Oh yeah, I think the Bellagio in Vegas is simply one of the most beautiful buildings I've ever seen.
--Susan, the beautiful thing about the Internet is that people can obsess over anything at all. Even better, they can get together in groups and go over every detail... sounds like you'll fit in quite well with the Mini owners :) Some of those gift and decor ideas sounded pretty cool. I want the movie rights to you and Kate's road trip, tenatively titled "Thelma and Louise 2004". I'll give you five dollars for 'em.
--Sounds like I missed one hell of a party :)
--I don't know so much about there's NO way you can fudge things with a guy. I admit it ain't bloody likely you're gonna get a guy to change, but you have to remember there are social stigmas at work behind the scenes. They don't call it pussy-whipped for nothing. However, you are right in that certain major things do already have to be there, you can't make them happen, no matter what you do. My last relationship lasted way longer than it probably should have because I refused to give up on it, despite it not really being ideal. I thought I could just deal with it. When it all caught up to me, man, it wasn't pretty.
Countdown to Ireland: 16