I thought mobile phone companies in Ireland were bad until I came over to the US. My experience so far has been with AT&T and, in spite of the best intentions of the eager foot soldiers in the stores, the company itself leaves a lot to be desired. Right now they are in the news […]
I woke up from a short nap on Saturday afternoon, concious of the fact that I needed to get moving as I was meeting friends later on. Then I got this curious sensation. There was someone not just in my apartment – there was someone lying in bed behind me. I was on my side, […]
Where do I start with this American Dream thing I started living a few months ago? I suppose the whole driving thing is the best place to mock myself. I revel in telling people how much I hate driving – and they usually revel in telling me that I’m a dumbass and that driving is […]
I was excited after joining my new gymnasium (also known as ‘a gym’). The entrance lobby was bright, the staff chirpy (apart from Mark – he’s just one of those guys who seems to think smiling is a sign of weakness), the equipment plentiful and in working order. But then I was introduced to a […]
After over a year struggling with this bloody Achilles injury and having chalked sports massage, physiotherapy and reiki off the list of possible solutions, I decided to drop in to the herb and acupuncture store* – for yes, we have such a thing – at my local shopping centre. I’ve never once walked by it in the […]
With a string of female sports masseuses having moved on at my gym I was left with the ultimate dilemma today – do I let a boy touch my naked body? Over the last five years I’d gone through a number of masseuses: a former Olympian badminton player (badmintor?), an Asian girl who asked me […]
Wearing the radio I was, for some reason, lying in bed with the radio on at 4am recently (“Had you got no pyjamas?” laughed a wag at the back of the hall). I overheard an interview with an English lady going on about some book she’d written about losing weight and the more I heard […]
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged (which is usually the first line of every blog I do given my inherent laziness). I naturally prefer to attempt blogs that might possibly make you smile or laugh or spit on the screen or whatever. But occasionally I feel the need to write something a little more […]
The final night of what has been an odyssey of … odysettic* proportions. To be quite honest with you it has been an uneventful week so I’m not going to bore you with the ins and outs. We did get stopped by a traffic cop on Tuesday morning while doing 47 in a 25 zone. […]
Day 7 While Palo Alto wasn’t exactly boiling hot it was positively tropical compared to the polar temperatures in Chicago. From 60F to -26F in the space of the four hours it took me to reach the windy city. My friend Sean had told me that it was cold and to bring a coat. Well […]
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