work

working and college at the same time sucks. plus as i referred to in an earlier blog with all the bloody weddings ive been to this year i never have a weekend to myself.
now everything is building up at home, at work, and at college, im finding my stress levels increasing and my productivity levels decreasing. it all leads to a very frustrated, soon to be thirty one year old, second year student, part time employee and full time exhausted son of a .....
next time

interviews

had my first interview for my work placement gig after xmas this morning. did well enough with the two guys, they were nice and helpful and said i had good people skills but needed to work a bit on my technical skills. but that kinda stuff will only come as soon as i get into the work environment and i'm doing stuff everyday. hope i get something soon cos there's not too many positions available. i'll let all my avid blog fans know as soon as i do...
next time

projectblog

so we're having a meeting about our group project on a student guide to cork. our group is my good self, shane, giuseppe, wallace, stephen and dave daly who's sunning himself in the canaries the lucky shite. i know all the lads from last year so it should be a good group to work in. we're gonna translate it into french and italian which would be some of our strengths and will cut down on the size of the content.
on another note, hopin ireland can get a win for us tonight in the footy. come on the boys in green.we owe those cyprus feckers one from the last time...

dodgy swedish websites

i was wondering about which website to write about when i cast my mind back to when i was moving into our house a couple of years ago. we were looking for furniture for it and while we had found a few nice things in furniture stores in munster we were really a couple of items short. so we thought we'd have a look online and see about ordering a couple of things. after googling furniture stores we came across the swedish giants IKEA. for such a huge global brand their website sucked. huge big flash intro when we got to the homepage and as we had a dial up connection it took the best part of five minutes to actually access anything. there was horizontal scrolling which i find pointless, and way too many flashing advertisements about products. considering these swedish giants can give you specs on how to build their furniture, you'd think they could build a much more user friendly website.
thats all from me now
later

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6 weddings and 3 funerals

since i turned thirty i've noticed that more and more of my weekends are being spent at weddings and funerals. although the weddings are happy days for the happy couples and their families, they're starting to become somewhat of a bore to yours truly. ive been to six already this year and i still have two more to go. its like im on a circuit now and im starting to meet the same people... my wedding buddies!!
on the flipside, ive definitely been to too many funerals this year! on the one hand while they can be great craic and you get to see people you haven't seen in a while, they are truly sad occasions and i hope there's no more anytime soon.
i think i need to start going to christenings more, they're just great craic! i'll be waiting a while before i have any of my own though.... sorry susie!!
next time
is mise le meas

year 2

here i am back again!!
back on the blog for another year. the joys eh? back in c.i.t. , the place is a small bit disorganised so far ,but i guess I'm not one to talk. haven't even paid my fees or registered yet, but it probably wouldn't matter as the admissions people seem to be a small bit behind or whatever it is they do.
but having said all that, its nice to be back seeing all the heads in the class again. been pushed out to the prefabs though, could be cold in there come winter. at least there's only 13 weeks to go to the end of semester, and then back in the real world earning some money at last!!
til next week
slan