Back to the streets where we began

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Today is an incredibly bizarre day. Let's bullet point!

• I went to bed at 4:30 because I just couldn't stop watching all the VMA videos of our wretched, precious boys. UGH SO MANY HEARTS.
  
• My body then proceeded to wake me up at 9 AM with a horrifically sore throat. That's right, 4.5 hours of sleep. BUT I'M NOT TIRED. It's so bizarre. I drank like a gallon of orange juice and my throat no longer hurts, which is good.
  
• The gynecologist called - pap smear was negative, but urine culture showed a urinary tract infection. My first one! Oh joy! *makes face*
  
• Karyn Convey from the international office at F&M called to tell me that she'd spoken to the Butler people, who run a study abroad program at Trinity (you may recognize the name from the list of study abroad programs that got subpoenaed after the recent New York Times article :P) and THEY HAVE A FREE SPOT IN THEIR HOUSING!!!! She didn't know many details, so I called the Butler person and he got me the specifics, and OH MY GOD this is fucking IDEAL. It's a gorgeous new-ish apartment complex in the heart of Dublin (Click! IT'S GORGEOUS!!!!), a ten minute walk from Trinity. I'd have a double room in a mini-suite with one other double, so three suitemates total. It has a kitchen and a lounge. The price Butler's charging is *so* much less than anything I could get in Dublin (about $1000 a month) and it's this amazing building with fitness facilities and a quiet area away from the bustle of Dublin proper, and it's just. A DREAM COME TRUE. The only drawback (and it's a kind of big one) is that the building doesn't have internet (?!? I do not understand) soooo, you know. However, being so close to Trinity's campus, with its wireless network, I don't think that will be a terrible hardship. It's certainly not worth passing up this opportunity and spending like a million dollars more on something not nearly as awesome. SO. I HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE OMG YAAAAAAAAY.

God that is such an incredible weight off. The main reason I was getting nervous was because of the uncertainty of where I was gonna lay my head. But then this happened! YAYE x A MILLION.

I'm STILL all about the VMA vids. A-MAZ-ING. <3333