pictures from sedona & surrounding area:
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Thursday, April 10, 2008
disneyworld
loved the rest of my time in new york. ate at lots of good restaurants, got my tourist on and visited most of the major sites.. cried at some amazing modern art at MoMA and the Met. really makes me miss living close to good galleries.
now in orlando with father, brother, uncle and cousin. having fun checking out various disneyworld parks.. magic kingdom yesterday, typhoon lagoon today. it's nice to see some sunshine. really good to hang out with dad and pete.
i miss home though. ireland. galway.
photos: dad taking a photo (unusual, no?)/ brother peter and i wet our pants/ peter and buzz lightyear/ cousin mia 'wha' happened?'/ view of road from the car
now in orlando with father, brother, uncle and cousin. having fun checking out various disneyworld parks.. magic kingdom yesterday, typhoon lagoon today. it's nice to see some sunshine. really good to hang out with dad and pete.
i miss home though. ireland. galway.
photos: dad taking a photo (unusual, no?)/ brother peter and i wet our pants/ peter and buzz lightyear/ cousin mia 'wha' happened?'/ view of road from the car
Friday, April 4, 2008
NYC - Day 2
Golly!
My second day in New York, and I'm feeling completely exhausted and overwhelmed. This is a big place.
Had dinner last night at a great veg restaurant called Red Bamboo. Am staying with a couple of vegan friends and a friend of theirs organised this big dinner with about 20 veg and vegan people he knew, so it was a nice way to spend my first night here- chatting with interesting people from around the States and the world over good food.
Today had brunch at Teany, a teeny veg cafe part owned by Moby. Recommend the triple chocolate brownie brownie (not sure whether the second brownie was a typo on the menu, but i like it). After that went on a mission to find new shoes, mine were in a state.. the sole had almost completely come away from the right shoe. Then headed to the Met via a dawdle through Central Park, stopping along the way to be charmed by squirrels.
Somehow those few activities filled my entire day.. I guess I did a lot of wandering along the way. Will post photos at some point.
My second day in New York, and I'm feeling completely exhausted and overwhelmed. This is a big place.
Had dinner last night at a great veg restaurant called Red Bamboo. Am staying with a couple of vegan friends and a friend of theirs organised this big dinner with about 20 veg and vegan people he knew, so it was a nice way to spend my first night here- chatting with interesting people from around the States and the world over good food.
Today had brunch at Teany, a teeny veg cafe part owned by Moby. Recommend the triple chocolate brownie brownie (not sure whether the second brownie was a typo on the menu, but i like it). After that went on a mission to find new shoes, mine were in a state.. the sole had almost completely come away from the right shoe. Then headed to the Met via a dawdle through Central Park, stopping along the way to be charmed by squirrels.
Somehow those few activities filled my entire day.. I guess I did a lot of wandering along the way. Will post photos at some point.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
doddering along
been eating loads of good food and baking a lot lately.
also have developed a disturbing appreciation for home & away. it's the most watched tv show here. really. actually. i get a weird sort of nostalgia watching it. something like 'oh, that's exactly like what my life in australia was like, except not,' and 'oh, that's just like what happened to me when i was living in sydney, except for the part about the kidnapping and running over that guy.'
heading to dublin for a couple of days with seán next week. just to get out of galway. eat at some good restaurants, hang out with some good people. should be fun.
also have developed a disturbing appreciation for home & away. it's the most watched tv show here. really. actually. i get a weird sort of nostalgia watching it. something like 'oh, that's exactly like what my life in australia was like, except not,' and 'oh, that's just like what happened to me when i was living in sydney, except for the part about the kidnapping and running over that guy.'
heading to dublin for a couple of days with seán next week. just to get out of galway. eat at some good restaurants, hang out with some good people. should be fun.
Monday, February 18, 2008
it's a beautiful day
i had a brilliant day today. nothing extraordinary happened.. i worked a few hours, walked a bit, then came to this net cafe. but i've been in a great mood. i've been having strange dreams lately, maybe that's got something to do with it.
cocaine is a big problem in ireland at the moment (according to the media.. independent sources are sceptical as to whether the problem is really any larger than it ever was, or whether it's just saturated cover in the media giving the impression that the problem's escalating). there are loads of government ads on the radio that go something like this:
"so you're going out for a few drinks with your mates tonight. you have a few beers and you're feeling pretty good, then someone offers you a line and you think 'why not?'... think again"
and so on. so yesterday morning i awoke from a dream about which all details are now sketchy, except for the fact that someone gave me mountains of cocaine and i was ecstatic about it. i awoke in a great mood.
don't worry dad, it was just a dream.
cocaine is a big problem in ireland at the moment (according to the media.. independent sources are sceptical as to whether the problem is really any larger than it ever was, or whether it's just saturated cover in the media giving the impression that the problem's escalating). there are loads of government ads on the radio that go something like this:
"so you're going out for a few drinks with your mates tonight. you have a few beers and you're feeling pretty good, then someone offers you a line and you think 'why not?'... think again"
and so on. so yesterday morning i awoke from a dream about which all details are now sketchy, except for the fact that someone gave me mountains of cocaine and i was ecstatic about it. i awoke in a great mood.
don't worry dad, it was just a dream.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
quotes
"i'm awesome. bigly"
rilla
"i don't need perfect sight.. i just want [laser] surgery so that when i drop my glasses i could see them"
rilla
"the crowd here is definitely much cooler"
"by cooler you mean younger don't you?... old people won't be cool until we're old"
jenna and i
"ooh, buckfast. get me nice and violent for work.. what number is it? gimme a taste...... oh, that's disgusting!"
matt
"how do you drink your buckfast?"
matt
"i like my men old and... plaid"
"well, you're in the right country!"
myself and jenna
"i'm like two months behind with rent.. i'm so broke i'm not supposed to have any fun.. except all the time"
dylan
"oh look! that's a good radiator. i love those ones"
ana
"bertie i'm-a-thief-liar-bollocks"
ed on the very well paid taoiseach (tee-shuck) bertie ahern. the taoiseach is the political leader of ireland. like a president.
"i have a strict, non-existent boundary when it comes to drugs"
tony
"what's the craic?"
"uh... fine?"
after several months living in ireland, curtis still doesn't know what the appropriate response to 'what's the craic' is.
rilla
"i don't need perfect sight.. i just want [laser] surgery so that when i drop my glasses i could see them"
rilla
"the crowd here is definitely much cooler"
"by cooler you mean younger don't you?... old people won't be cool until we're old"
jenna and i
"ooh, buckfast. get me nice and violent for work.. what number is it? gimme a taste...... oh, that's disgusting!"
matt
"how do you drink your buckfast?"
matt
"i like my men old and... plaid"
"well, you're in the right country!"
myself and jenna
"i'm like two months behind with rent.. i'm so broke i'm not supposed to have any fun.. except all the time"
dylan
"oh look! that's a good radiator. i love those ones"
ana
"bertie i'm-a-thief-liar-bollocks"
ed on the very well paid taoiseach (tee-shuck) bertie ahern. the taoiseach is the political leader of ireland. like a president.
"i have a strict, non-existent boundary when it comes to drugs"
tony
"what's the craic?"
"uh... fine?"
after several months living in ireland, curtis still doesn't know what the appropriate response to 'what's the craic' is.
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