one more miracle

Oh, Dublin. Grafton Street was practically THRIVING when I walked home - you could even call it busy, to the point where I almost felt lame for going home early (read: 3 AM). Apparently there's some Six Nations rugby tournament going on, and we must be playing Scotland because there are men in kilts EVERYWHERE. There must be thousands of them, for me to have encountered as many as I did today! So nifty.

Another Friday night spent in Trinity! I kind of miss actually going OUT, though my wallet doesn't :P However, tonight, instead of bumming around scifi and playing Guitar Hero, we went to the Pav (on campus bar) because it's the week of Student Union elections and one of our good friends is running, so basically it was just a big party with lots of candidates there and everyone getting drunk and being ridiculous. Barry did a beer bong, and Cathal and Nick did a power hour with BAVARIA, and there was twister on the cold concrete, and there were streakers, and all in all it was a ridiculous, fun time. The aforementioned Cathal is not the Cathal I know, but rather Cathal Reilly, who is running for SU president. I had never met him before, only seen people wearing his tshirts and his posters up all over the place, in which he looks ADORABLE. I was already going to vote for him, because he's a science student and we need one of those in charge, but it was loads of fun meeting him. He was quite drunk already and a massive flirt, hee. (And VERY CUTE in person, might I add) He started to say something that was going to be some kind of ridiculous come on line, but stumbled over his words and just gave up and said "You're pretty!" Heee! It was not sleazy at all, just really funny and adorable and it made me smile a lot. He was fun :D

So Paul and I spent the night shamelessly flirting. Like, this is over the top. TWO people (Conor and Stephen) asked us why we haven't hooked up yet! Seriously! To our faces! We were mostly awkward and avoidy about it, and I just don't even know what's going on there. Well, yes I do - he's young and unsure of what the hell he's supposed to do, and it's really quite adorable. I'm not sure when I became the experienced older woman, hahaha. But clearly I'm going to have to take the reins if anything's going to happen. And if it does, I kind of just want friends with benefits? Which is what we actually are at the moment, just without the actual kissing part. Seriously, SO MUCH FLIRTING. But the moment just hasn't seemed to have presented itself! *hands* Idek.

I believe the term you would use to describe me is boy crazy? :-/ I guess I'm just going wild with the notion that hey, guys might actually find me attractive! This is a foreign concept to me, so I'm kind of taking it and running with it. It's good fun, to be quite honest, though I am terribly sorry for boring you all with the details.

As you can probably tell, I'm definitely not drunk. I only had two beers, and that was about... oh, 6 hours ago. Totally sobered up. They were Desperados though, which are Spanish and a combination of beer and tequila, and oh. They are yummy :D Niall introduced me to them.

Which, um, speaking of, I had lunch with Niall and spent our whole hour break between classes with him! He's such a sweetheart.

DID I MENTION BOY CRAZY? *hides*

Today was randomly fabtastic! I totally didn't expect that! I had my first class at noon (statistical thermodynamics, ew ew ew) and then I went to meet Sinead and the biochem kids at Java. Sinead and most of them had to leave really soon though, but Niall didn't! So it ended up just being me and Niall hanging out and chatting for 45 minutes. He's so sweet. He makes me laugh and I make him laugh and it's good times :D Then we sat together in our next lecture, went to the library for our free hour together, then sat together again for our last lecture! It was pretty much unmitigated awesome - I adore him.

Then I texted Dara asking if he and Paul were up in sci fi, and they were! So I headed in that direction, and they were up there with a couple other people. We played Guitar Hero for an hour - the only songs I played were two co-ops with Paul, hee. We are a rockin' team \o/ In between songs, we had pillow fights and poking fights and we totally have the pigtail-pulling kind of mutual crush, it's actually ridiculously fun, idek. I love hanging out with him and Dara, they're just made of puppies and rainbows!

Then everyone showed up and we had our sci fi committee meeting. Good craic, as usual! I loff everybody <3

Thennnnn I went out to dinner at a delicious Thai place with Kate, her brother Adam, Cary, Emily, and Megan, all American girls on the Butler program. We were sending Adam off, as he is leaving tomorrow, tear! He's a really cool guy, he's been fun to have around :)

THEN we came back up to sci fi because I was going to go out to a movie with the sci fi boys, and I brought the American kids along with me for a round of Guitar Hero and just to say hello, because everyone I know is awesome and gets along swimmingly \o/ I played yet another song with Paul, and had more tickling and poking fights, I SWEAR WE ARE TWELVE. He even picked me up and twirled me at one point! *hands* I don't even know, I just know it's fun :P

So then the American contingent headed off to a pub, and I set off with a passel of boys (plus one girl!) to see Cloverfield! There was Bren, Mark, Barry, Colin, Niall, Justin2, and Megan. I spent the whole walk there talking to Bren, which was so lovely because I adore him but I really only ever see him briefly in the sci fi room. He's the head of the society and always really busy with that or schoolwork. We sat together for the movie, and talked on the walk back too, I loved that :) It had been a long time since I'd been out with the group of them like that, it was really nice. Cloverfield was pretty awesome - there was lots of covering of the eyes, because hey, gross! But awesome! I liked it. The guys LOVED it, of course. ♥

Only two moments of sourness today - first, Bren told me that Andy broke up with that girl Jean 3 weeks after they got together. In like. November. Um. DO YOU REMEMBER HOW MUCH I WAS EMOING ABOUT HIM? How I was completely head over heels but he was taken?? HE WASN'T TAKEN. HE DIDN'T TELL US. I am really quite baffled and kind of hurt and just. Blegh. I don't want to think about it. But I think I'm cured of my crush because while I still adore him, I realize that he really does have issues and I don't think it would be healthy to get tangled with that. The other moment of meh was when I asked Niall why he and Colin and Andy didn't make it on Friday (he told me he was trying to convince them to come) and he kind of made a face and said he didn't want to talk about it just then. So either Colin or Andy was being weird about coming to hang out with me. Awesome. Meh, whatever.

Let's finally have some visual aids for all these names I'm dropping everywhere! I didn't take too many pictures last Friday, but once I got quite drunk and the camera got in my hands, I got some awesome ones, so - sharing! There's also a video of a group a capella rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody, that was AWESOME. Hee.

( Galileo GALILEO Galileo GALILEO Figaro magnifico-o-oooo! )

Well that's that! It was a good night indeed. And today was a good day. I'm so pleased. :) Now my toes are cold and I have class in 8 hours so I'm gonna hit the sack! Gnight my dears!

Today was weird and ridiculous and really kind of fun!

First, let's have the saga of how I lost my cell phone (read: retardedly left it in a cafe, WHAT IS MY BRAIN) and came to find it again. The cast of characters, because this will make no sense if I have to keep describing who everyone is along the way.

Katelyn - my roommate
Michael - Katelyn's boyfriend, my friend, one of the sci fi boys
Mark - another sci fi boy
George - guy whom I've seen around sci fi loads, he's on the committee too
Bren - head of sci fi

Okay, clear? Right. So. I was freaking out about the loss of my phone, and I ran into Michael. I asked him if he was talking to Katelyn (he was on the phone) in case i had left my phone at home. He wasn't, but he said Katelyn had told him that Mark had called HER and told her that he had or knew where my phone was. I was like - Mark?? What?? So I needed to find a way to get in touch with Mark! I happened to spot George, so I asked him if he had Mark's number. He didn't, but he had Bren's! I called Bren with George's phone, asked Bren for Mark's number, Bren texted it to me. I called Mark, and it turned out whoever found my phone had called him with it and said they had it in the Hamilton cafe. Now here's the kicker - I had been about to look for my phone at the cafe earlier, BUT THE HAMILTON GOT EVACUATED BECAUSE OF A FIRE. Hahahaha what. So I had to wait a while but finally the cafe reopened (the fire was in the other end of the building, in a bathroom, so they were letting people in that side) and I asked and THEY HAD IT YAY. It was such a relief, but wow, such a ridiculous way to find it!

Backtracking a bit, we were waiting outside the Hamilton also because we had a class in there at 3, and we were waiting to see if we'd have it or not. It was SO FUCKING COLD! Wind gusts so hard they could knock you over, spatterings of ice cold rain, and then it FLURRIED! For like 20 seconds, but everyone freaked out, because it's so rare here. It was hilarious!

So yeah, THAT WAS MY DAY. I got to go home early though because that class was canceled after all. I did some shopping on the way home, got a pretty new shirt and purse! Then we went out to dinner, partially because Kate's brother got here today and partially because Megan's 21st birthday was yesterday. We had boxties at this great Irish place and OH IT WAS NUMMY. \o/ Kate's brother is really cool too - he's about 23? Graduated from college and an actor :)

Tomorrow is my party!! \o/ Many people are expected, I'm REALLY EXCITED. And something really sweet and awesome - so, Paul, right? Cute little 18 yr old dork who I may or may not have a crush on, irdk? It turned out that this black tie birthday party that he was going to be dragged to by his sister was actually tomorrow night, i.e. THE NIGHT OF MY PARTY, and I had a brief moment of woe before he was like, but I'm skipping it to come to yours! And I was like \o/!! So awesome :D

Gah, I'm sorry, my posts are almost entirely real life these days. Must be so boring! Mostly I feel like everyone else already says everything there is to say. For example: TORCHWOOD!!!!! You are being consistently amazing, I AM SO IMPRESSED. KEEP IT UP BB. and PANIC CHILDREN YOUR FACES AND TINY FEETS. You've heard it all, am I right? Additionally, all the squee about Panic is lovely, but I'm trying to keep myself slightly removed from it so as to reduce my heartbreak when everyone's attending their five HCT shows or whatever while I sit over here twiddling my thumbs.

In lieu of that, I want to share what is now one of my most favoritest MCR interviews EVER! bexless linked to it in a comment elsewhere, and I was all OOOH PRECIOUS!



Gee is so adorably exhausted and out of it (but not drunk I don't think! just spacey) and geeking out HARDCORE and he's just precioussss. And of course they want to save your lives! And Frankie makes some truly epically cute faces, as well as listening intently to Gee while he rambles about comic books. Hearts hearts hearts! <33333 Also, Sci Fi has the Preacher comics in the room, I'm totally gonna have a look! Paul was reading them the other day - I asked what they were about, and he tried to explain. That's some FUCKED UP SHIT DUDE. I can totally see why it panics Gee's disco :D

Ok enough of my rambling. I can seriously talk on and on can't I?

Oh, Russell Brand is on my teevee right now! Doing standup on some show, idk. He's adorable, but much funnier when paired up with Noel, imo! Noel's slow, dreamy quality perfectly balances out Russell's manic loudness. Time for a BFQOTY rewatch? POSSIBLY!