Posted in Uncategorized on June 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A recruitment consultant wrote to me today:
“When are you planning on coming back to Ireland.”
(He obviously misses me, so much so that he forgot to use a question mark)
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I replied:
“I’ve no plans to come back at present.”
(That’s me, sailing on the winds of chance)
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To which I get the reply:
“I don’t blame.”
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Yes, not only is the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Over the last few months the one thing that has felt so uncharacteristically wrong about me has been my lack of reading and when I do read, the slowness. I used to zip through books by the week, life was good, the sun was shining, bird singing in the trees, flowers dancing merrily in the [...]
Posted in Asia, Books, China, Travels, Uncategorized on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was realy excited when I bought “Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid” by J. Maarten Troost and not just because it would mean I could really up the word count of this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No matter how cheap it is or how it allows you to spend an extra night with your family or how it means you only get into work 15 minutes later than usual, it is never a good idea to take the 6am flight from Dublin to Amsterdam.
Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I get these notions that I want to be a writer, to see something that I created out of the words buzzing around in my head. To see my name in print. Recently I’ve felt there was something lacking in my life, a gap hitherto unfulfilled, this strange slightly artistic side that I can’t [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a character in Catch-22 whose sole aim is to escape from the war and get back to living a normal life. Of course there’s the obvious option of desertion but not readily considered as you’d suffer all the more if you got caught.
The only proven way to way to get away from the war [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Four and half years ago I had a job based on the other side of the city. It was a long journey. At first I tried cycling but discovered I couldn’t cycle there more than three days a week, my knee couldn’t take the strain.
So I compromised. I cycled into the city centre, left my [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today I had a good day, it seems like it’s been so long since I came home from work full of life and vigour. I feel alive. I didn’t even want to leave, I wanted to stay there until they threw me out.
I worked the whole day through, I didn’t check my email, I didn’t [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Three hours later and it’s raining….
Posted in Uncategorized on July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Something happened today.
Or rather, something didn’t happen. It didn’t rain. It’s rained every day for weeks now, and we’re not even supposed to have monsoon weather in an Irish Summer. There’s even a theory that it’s supposed to be sunny in Summer…
Though even as I type this the wind is strenghtening, a portent of rain, [...]
