In the beginning...

Welcome, y'all. I have decided to start a blog b/c I find it a bitch to try to email all of you with the yahoo and the hotmail and the whatnot. Sorry. I guess it means you'll have to search me out to know what I'm doing. Actually, some of you may find this a blessing. I'll put a link to this on my AIM name, SkiNica, if you care to check it out there. Besides that, you're on your own to find me.

To recap my life for the last month I have done one thing--travelled. Here's the long and short of it. Monica, my girlfriend, came from the Lou to me and we went to Galway (in Ireland), Paris, and London. Then I went to Rome and Florence, back home for St. Patty's in Dublin, then off to Brussels, Amsterdam, Warsaw, and Vienna. Then my parents came and we did Dublin and London. Now back to school. Its a tough life I live. When I get home I'll put up some pics so you can see too (I'm at a computer lab right now). The following will be more detail; feel free to skim, skip, or come back to this if you're short on time, don't care, have a short attention span, etc.

Monica time:
It was really really good to have Mon over here. She's a cutie. We took our time on the Island pretty chill, seeing a movie, drinking beer (me), shots (her), and whiskey (both). We went to Galway and got to see the Cliffs of Mordor or Moher or something like that, where Mon conquered her fear of tragic death by falling from dangerous hights to a rocky and salt-watery death, only to be attacked by scavanger leprechauns. She survived, as did I, and life is good. I also got to meet Andrew Somethingorother, Katy Murph-Lub's boyfriend. (For those who don't know her, she the only other WashUer who's here with me.) He's a winner, and does a killer German impression. Then was Paris to see the Eiffle Tower, the Seine River, the Arc de Triumph, the Champs Elysse, the Louvre, the Moulin Rouge, Versaille, and other random French things. Highlights include but are not limitted to: being lost for an hour cause I'm an idiot, eating at Dans le Noir where one is stripped of their eyesight and served by blind people, eating at Altitude 95 in the Eiffle Tower, a kebab, and Mon's model session inside the Louvre. I'll see if I can upload a picture or two of that. Then we went to London where we chilled a lot. We didn't have much time, so we relaxed instead of trying to see everything. We did see the Globe Restaurant, almost as good as the theatre which we missed, Buckingham, Big Ben, London Eye, and Steve Gabster. The last one was the best, cause Steve is a pretty sexy guy. Then she left and it was sad. We rock, though.

Langer time:
The rest of the travels were mostly with my boy from Tampa named Brian Langer, aka Langer. He's a Notre Dame kid who is studying in Dublin as well. We met up in Rome to meet our bud Tony Toledo, who unexpectedly was out of town. That sucked, but we chilled with other ND kids anyways. We went to the Vatican, so that was pretty cool. I'd been to Rome 5 years before, so I didn't spend much time and instead went to visit my old roomies in Florence. That was really really nice and relaxing. Much lovin' to Ferdinand, Tyler, and Steph who cooked good food and made for a great end to leg one of Jorge's travel-a-thon. Then I did absolutely nothing for St Patty's day here in Dublin. I suck, I know, but I was tired and I had no Raj to motivate me. So I chilled. Then off to Brussells for waffles and chocolate, then Amsterdam for Anne Frank and VanGogh and..., then off to Warsaw which was pretty damn cool. It was a relatively cheap and chill town with good lookin' gals, if you're into tha Arian race style gals with blond hair, light eyes, much taller than me, etc. And the Pols have some good beer. Good job Poland. While there we went to Auschwitz, which was too far away to be a daytrip, but we did it anyways. That place is pretty depressing, not very fun. Pretty sobering actually, which was good. The most impressive thing was how damn big the camps were. Anyways, that's another rant. After, we went to Vienna via Bratislava. There I coincidentally ran into Anna B (Eliot 9, what what), and Myles from ZBT. They were taking time off from their rough Madrid to chill in Central Europe and I stubble upon them. They made for good nights out. Pretty palaces, opera houses, churches, etc abound there. But it was good to go home the 24th. I ate lots of schnitzles. mmmmm....schnitzle.....

Parent time:
We did lots of Dublin, ate much better food that I have grown accustomed to, and did lots of walking. They brought me rice and beans too. Gotta love them parents. Then we went to London to see the sights, eat rediculously good food, especially Indian food, and then toured around Windsor, Bath, and Stonehedge. Good times. Now they're back and so am I.

Well, papers to write and life to live. Enjoy life, y'all. Peace.