Wicklow, Computers and Life

So it is actually nearly midnight here, but I decided that it was high time I updated my blog and gave you all some more news of how life is going here...

It is grand :-). I am happily in love (which actually does make some other things less annoying... magically) and university is going alright, home is awesome and well, in general I'm just very comfortable here.

Today both Cian and me were finished at 12 for the day... So as sensible students do we stayed about 2 more hours to get some work done... Guess the only person getting work done was Cian as I was fighting with the computer... I tell you, the computer was winning... He swallowed my program and didn't want to spit it back out no matter what I did. So I have to admit I was pretty pissed off at that (excuse the language) and as the computer kept on crashing I decided I'd go to the library and do something for my organizational behaviour course.

The funny thing about that is.. haha, I had to read the "Motivation" chapter and I felt pretty unmotivated... so unmotivated actually that I fell asleep and only woke up once I got a text from Cian. So that was that.

We went to Dundrum, got the car and drove towards Wicklow... The streets are VERY narrow and sometimes they have walls on both sides, it's a bit freaky, but I was in good hands :-). We stopped first at a place with a stunning view over Dublin, it was absolutely breath-taking... As we continued along the road the land kept getting more barren, but in a nice way and not a lot of other cars were around. The landscape all around was really nice and sometimes we'd see the Sugarloaf (that's dublin's house mountain... or rather hill... apologies to the Irish, but it really is a hill). A bit further down the road we stopped in this really boring spot and Cian wanted to show me something.

So we got out of the car... took my scarf and fleece jacket and we walked away from the road, up this little footpath... Once at the top the view was stunning :-) and so was the wind! There was this little lake, perfect colors in front of a hill and it just looked amazing. We took some quick pictures and enjoyed the view for a very little time... otherwise we just might have become part of the scenery as frozen ice status. Man that wind was something... and it was a sunny day! Don't want to know how it would be like on a stormy night ;-).

We drove on, got warm again in the car and somehow already a bit on the way back towards Dublin we stopped a third time. Got out of the car and walked a bit uphill, the wind was alright, but as soon as we walked over the top part I thought I'd actually get blown away... both by the scenery and the wind. It is this amazing lake that looks like a pint of Guinness from space. Here's a picture from google maps (just google lough tay):

So after a bit of wandering around on the hill and Cian's camera giving up on the battery (I think it might just have been frozen, lol) we drove back to Dublin. So that was about a 2.5 hour drive, very lovely!

Other news:
You might just like to go see social network, it's actually pretty good as long as you take it as a piece of fiction rather than fact.
Tomorrow afternoon I'll leave for Killarney with DUISS, which is the international student society of Trinity College. I'll be there for 2 days and I'm assuming it'll be loads of fun.
Ah, pictures from the Wicklow drive will follow as soon as I get them from the photographer with the camera.
Oh and Ireland is starting to catch uf to Switzerland regarding the hits on my blog :-). The ranking is Switzerland, Ireland... a wiiiiiide gap, then Sweden (guess that's because it'll find it until sweden and then get lost) and New Zealand :-).
And something else: Basel beat AS Roma, yay, go FCB!!!