07.31.08
Blah blah blah CAMBRIDGE!
When not contemplating dogs, new notebooks, or cheeseburgers, my mind launches into frenzied dreams about next summer, when I (at last!) cross the Atlantic again to spend a solid month in England (and hopefully a week in Ireland!).
I’ll take Art and Humanities at Cambridge University. I think that merits the use of an emoticon.
=]
I’m going to completely clean out my life savings and return absolutely penniless, probably in a good bit of debt, but hopefully it’ll all be worth it.
I really don’t shut up about this trip. It’s a study abroad thing… Since I first found out I’m going (all the Teaching Fellows at UNC Asheville do it), I’ve harbored a big, giddy colony of monarch butterflies in my tummy.
Seriously.
Whenever my life runs amok, I stop, inhale deeply, and in a dramatic internal stage whisper utter:
“CAMBRIDGE!!!”
and immediately my spirits soar.
Ah, it just soothes me to know I’ll be on the wrong side of the road again with a bellyful of little McDonald’s cheeseburgers!
06.27.08
Gaelic…
I always knew it was out there, and a wee bit odd. But until tonight, I never really paid it much mind.
I stumbled across a site with various handy Gaelic phrases. It’s now abundantly clear to me why Irish accents sound the way they do. You can’t help but develop that particular twang when speaking Gaelic.
My friend Erin (go Bragh!), after reviewing the list, decided the Irish just started speaking jibberish one day to confuse the bloody hell out of the Brits.
Although no Wikipediable historical evidence supports this, I think she might be on to something.
I can’t list all my favorites here. They’re all great fun to yell across the room at somebody. I had a real blast kicking my brother out of my room with this one:
PHRASE: Imeacht gan teacht ort. PRONOUNCED: Im/ockt gon chock/th urt. MEANING: May you leave without returning.
This one inspired a few lol’s. Replace bean with fear? … Okay?
PHRASE: An bhfuil bean sa chistin? PRONOUNCED: On will ban sa khish-tin? MEANING: Is there a woman in the kitchen? (replace 'bean' with 'fear' (pronounced 'far') to ask 'is there a man in the kitchen?')link:
http://www.ireland-information.com/irishphrases.htm
I got so inspired, I had to turn on Flogging Molly (the greatest band in the entire universe). And I’m back to obsessively planning my England/Ireland tour next year.
http://www.ireland-information.com/irishphrases.htm
