Girls Nights In

Since returning from Italy, we've all turned in our adventure hats for study caps. The general consensus is that we have learned very little inside the classroom compared to what we've learned outside of the classroom. If we could take an exam on hostel crazies, public transportation, and getting from Point A to Point B in the most efficient and cheapest way, I think we'd all do well. Unfortunately, we are testing on 4 months of irrelevant facts. We have no idea what to expect from these finals or the grading procedures because the minimal grades we have received thus far have been awfully vague and strangely stringent.

So we've been good little children and spent time in the UCD library like little study minions. And when we need a little peace from academia we break bread like a family. We've had a bunch of nice chill dinner times. Claire's famous cheeseburgers and fried potatoes. Two nights in a row. Watching "Into The Wild" and deciding that when society gets too hard, we are going into the wild. Then a night at the Woolshed for footy, which didn't tape so we had to settle for cheesecake and Now & Then. And vegetable stirfry and some funky chicken wings that tasted like lemon soap.

Then last night after a day of laundry, jogging, and the library trekking to Tesco to load up on exam rations and being so loaded up with groceries, we decided to take a taxi home. Loving the cute little taxi driver who whistled the whole way home and was just so jolly. Then tag team Caesar salad making with one Jennifer Matchett, who shared her grandmother's famous chicken caesar salad recipe with me and gave me all the big jobs. She even made me eat something with anchovies-- getting wild.

From now until Tuesday at 8 pm, it'll be study face. Then Tuesday night-Sunday morning, it'll be living up our last days in the Emerald Isle.

I am going to miss my new found Canadian and Australian amigas. It's the simple nights that mean the most, just chilling, and cooking, and laughing.