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I think I just finished my final paper for CID; it needs maybe one more edit, but essentially it's done. I leave the country in 11 days. Between then & now, I have to:( so you don't have to read it if you don't care )

It won't hit me until I'm gone--probably not, as Kate said, until we go back to 'normal' school in January--how much I'll really miss of what I have here. I will miss a lot, I know that. But I feel like most of the time I live my life in a perpetual state of missing something I don't have...and I miss what I haven't had in Seattle too much to be sad about going home. We'll see how I feel next Saturday, of course. But at the moment, I'm getting ready to come home.

Last Ireland trip: Belfast, Derry, Giant's Causeway

Last weekend was our last to go tripping, so we went out with style: weekend madness in Northern Ireland (or the north of Ireland, depending on who you talk to). On Friday afternoon, Cozy, Lee, Nora, Kate, Charlotte and I took the train up to Belfast. As you can imagine I was thrilled, since I adore trains. We bought cava & orange juice and brown bread to have a picnic on the train but ended up not sitting together, so instead I read some to prepare for my paper, & mostly slept.
We arrived at the hostel, checked in, & found our room, all the while exclaiming over how much better than the Generator this place was! (It was rather nice: a hostel, sure, but clean! And cute, and quirky, & friendly.)

So we had the party in the hostel room, later joined by Katie Manteca! All the way from London.



I'm warning you: this post is going to be full of photos, & probably of historical rambling. (For the real historical stuff, you really should go look it all up--it's fascinating, & I certainly don't remember exact dates or everything they told me. But it's good to know.)

( Day 1 )

And I'm quite tired, & making more typos than it's worth correcting at this point. I'll just let Day 1 be for now, & put up Day 2 (in Belfast itself) tomorrow.
Peace.