Friday was my last day in the Dublin office. Two weeks went by quickly! Friday I returned to Cornucopia for dinner and had some amazing butternut squash and cashew canneloni. Then I revisited the Irish Film Centre to see Mic-Macs, whose preview before A Single Man had piqued my interest. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who [...]
Down the Rabbit Hole
Yearly Archives 2010
In Dublin’s Fair City
Saturday I ventured out into the city once more. A co-worker was kind enough to loan me her unused bicycle, but the tires were flat and the handy pump in the Google garage didn’t have the proper adapter for them. By the way, I love the fact that there’s no parking lot for cars at [...]
Friday Night Lights
As I am here for work, it should be no surprise that I spent most of the week working. There’s lots to do in a short period of time, and without my normal evening activities to structure my schedule, I work until after 7, even though I get there no later than 9:30. So I [...]
First Days in Dublin
I left San Francisco at noon on Friday and arrived a few hours later in Chicago, where I discovered to my dismay that my plane to Dublin had been delayed 2.5 hours. In the end, we left four hours late, which gave me time to read the first half of Breaking Dawn in the airport [...]
Homecoming by the numbers
I just got home from five days of music and dancing at Camp Harmony. That means five days of no cars, no phones, no computers, though I do have two hundred miles on my odometer from driving up to Santa Rosa and back. I sang more songs than I can count, danced at least six [...]