Travel, spider sessions, nappies (?)

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Hey everyone! Hope all is well... last week (as my friend Jeff so eliquently put it) I felt like a train hit me. The first week of school always does that to me. So, I came out of it ok though and Friday, immediately after I was finished, left for Cleveland (Well, a little south of Cleveland in the Cayahoga National Park)... Grada played there that night. It was so nice to hear genuine music again and so nice to see everyone...

We joked around a big, talked, hand a beer (well... not me) in a strange bar... I think it was Bennegin's? Brian (sub fiddle player) and I spent Saturday morning hiking (well, if you could call it that... i love to stop and take pictures... as you know) through the woods in the park. So many cool things around there and we seemed to (thanks to someone he met) have been directed to a nice little nook in the park... beautiful.

That afternoon I drove to Pittsburgh and visited with Devan (my brother)... he had some time to show me around the cool building in the university there where he works. Absolutely georgious... they even have rooms dedicated to a country... They were closed, but we were able to see a tiny bit through the lock peep holes. We had some awesome food in town and then I continuted to explore a bit and listened to some music. Returned back to Dev's place and played for a while, watched a movie and got a good night's sleep and then... yes... I spent Sunday in Ikea pretending I was rich and had a full, empty house to design. That was fun while it lasted, but I got extremely stressed by the end of the visit... drove home and arrived late, but just in time to crash for Monday's school day... put together a couple pieces of furnature... thank you very much... was very proud of myself!

Now... I am not sure who I shared this with, but I am having an issue. I have an old, nappy, brown couch that is about 33 years old. My parents had it before I was born. It was paired with a nappy black chair (I always thought this was a brown chair, but no)... When my mother and step father came to their senses and realized how awful these things were, they were graciously passed onto Devan and myself. When I arrived in Pittsburgh last weekend... the funniest thing happened... as he was leading me up to see the 3rd floor of his new hours, we were suddenly blocked by an obstruction... right... the black chair... he had moved it into the hallway with the intention of placing it on the 3rd floor, but had gotten it stuck in such a way that only taking it apart would allow him to move it fowards or backwards... obvious decision... leave it right where it was. I am still laughing about this. My mother wants us both to make pacts that by the end of the year, we will dispose of these ... these... well, who knows what they really are anymore. But then, I was sharing these thoughts with my friend Mark in Ireland (some of you have read his hysterical stuff already) and, like he always does, nearly made me piss myself with his response... (Mark... hope you don't mind me sharing)...

Hey guys... So, I shared my issues with letting my brown couch go at the moment... This is what Mark, my friend from Ireland said... I also said school was kicking my ass... nearly pissed my pants. had to share. (I had also discussed how school was wearing me out last week)...
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em...no offence but a nappy brown couch does not sound like it should be in anyones living space, particularily if it has the bottom falling out of it. I am just wondering do you know that in ireland we refer to 'diapers', those things for incontinent babies, 'nappies'? So it almost goes without saying that having a a nappy brown anything with the botttom falling out is not an attractive proposal. Still, i suppose sentimental attachment will blind even the most discerning to the moast obvious faults.

so school is whooping your ass eh/ i would have thought after your summer of galavanting and general gadding about that you would have been hardened for anything, but i guess not? maybe if you started drinking in school it would be easier, you

Grada

could camp outside the school in tig-in, then get the kids to adopt a slathering galway brogue and have them all fall about the classrooms, while lunasa blare away over the p.a. system....i'd bet that would put you more at ease...

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Ireland? The best country? Who would have thought! (Thanks Stephan!)
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Great weekend of traveling... it was amazing to see people... let's do it again!
Smiles...

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