A New Dawn, A New Day

Here I am writing to this blog which is slowly dying and no longer relevant to me or the blogosphere. Since I last posted so much has changed for me and for those around me. I am no longer frequenting the streets of Dublin. I have traded the halls of UCD for the long shut coal mines of west yorkshire. I am now operating out of Leeds. Furthermore, I have submitted my PhD, sat my viva and was awarded the PhD. I shall be graduating in December some time.
However, in the mean time I will be getting married at the end of November, so as you can see it is all change. I had forgot that this blog was still operational, I had no desire or time to update it. I am thinking that my experiment in blogging has produced inconsistent results. I am not sure what I hoped to achieve with this blog. I think the lack of aims and objectives and most of all the lack of a hook has meant that the postings do not have any central theme or have any relevance to the world outside of my little mind.
I desperately want to continue this blog, but I think that like the early and tentative bands that great rock stars and musicians form in their formative years, this has to be put to bed so I can move into a new genre or a new direction. See this as Paul Weller breaking up the jam to form the style counsel, or Shaun Rider finishing The Happy Mondays for Black Grape. Except maybe it is the opposite, leaving the style counsel for the Jam, or Black Grape for the Happy Mondays. A proper analogy would be Ian Brown putting the shambolic Stone Roses of 1996 to bed and going solo. I am sure Ian Brown has never looked back. Sure he can crave the early days of the Stone Roses, but once John Squire left, the band (like this blog) was slowly dying and moving further away from relevance.
But having said all that, who knows, maybe this blog will get a second life. Writing this is giving me some energy to continue posting. However, I do think I need to go away and think about having a second blog, one that is more focused, one that has a theme, a topic and a relevance to my life and hopefully to others.
I shall keep you updated of any changes or new ventures into the blogosphere. If this is to be put to rest, I shall write one final time to retire this blog. Looking at the title, perhaps it is fitting that I keep this going, 'From where to eternity'. When I started this I did not know where I was going to go with this. I did not know where to start. Perhaps the title of the blog says more than the numerous posts through the last 3 years. Till Next time

touching base

It has become a habit to start each new blog by commenting on how long it has been since I last posted. It has indeed been a very long time. June 09 to be exact. Well a lot has happened since that time. I'm less that 6 months away from getting married. I am less than a month away from handing up my PhD and I also had a load of interviews for clinical psychology courses in the Uk and in Ireland.
This is not a blog with much to say. Basically, I'm just touching base with the blogosphere. My contribution to this community is pretty minimal at present but one day I will have the time and the angle to make this an interesting source of info.

My name is Geraldine and I'm your social worker

It is amazing the difference seeing a band live can make to your opinion of them. An obvious statement yes. Bu glasvegas really impressed me last week at slane. In an aside. It was probably the strongest line up for a long long time. From start to finish the bands all worked together.
Returning to glasvegas and the obvious statement. Well I heard an read the hype. I am too old to buy into Nme anymore so I successfully ignored it. But their down fall came in the shape of the lead singers appearance on never mind the buzzcocks. He took himself way too seriously. I was adamant that I would not take the time to listen to their album. All that changed or saturday in Meath. Went out first thing Monday morning and picked up a copy. It had rapidly replaced the horrors second album in my fav listen.
Speaking of the horrors. I seen them in Dublin as part of an nme shockwaves tour. I thought they were absolute rubbish. Did not take to them at all. Them they release primary colours and I was hooked.
Al in all it is a great year for albums. Either that or I have been very lucky in not buying poor product.
That is all!

Mobile blogging

So I'm writing this from the passanger seat of a car on the way to Dublin. Was down in Wexford for the sunny bank holiday weekend.
As so e may know I've an iPhone and it never stops to amaze me. I got the notion to compose an entry for the oft forgotten journal, so I went on to the app store searched for an app, downloaded it and hey presto. Here I am writing as the fields of Wicklow wiz by. Amazing reiely amazing

Please stand clear of the doors

"Please stand clear of the doors" or so says the London Underground. Maybe the DART also says that. But the New York subway does not for sure. I had the pleasure to ride the Subway last week. It was an experience. My first encounter involved a large man and a small latino lady having a blazing row in the queue for the tickets about who was next in line. I did not want to point out that it was in fact ME. They both skipped me. The Large black man, jumped the queue first, but i let him do so, as he was in a hurry to go home. The latino lady however, came out of nowhere at the last minute and so it kicked off. Contrary to the normal reaction, I loved this. I said to myself "I have landed, this is the big apple" Alas, the rest of my subway experience was very uneventful. I was told to try and watch out for rats, as they don't make them like that anywhere else. I seen one, who looked more like a mouse.
The subway was jut one of the many new experiences I want to share with the world. I had an amazing time, and my week in NY has ignited a desire to more my life to such a place. While I did the tourist things such as gawk 'open mouthed' at the size of the buildings, get dizzy at the top of the empire state building, pay my respects at the WTC site, and eat a ht dog off a grubby street vendor. I also like to think I lived the life of a New Yorker. I ate in the places the locals eat. I went to the local places, and steered clear of the tourist trap restaurants, bars, and sites such as madam tausads.
I did however, do a lot of photography, there really is some great shots to be taken there. I am torn about whether this is a touristy thing or not. I view it as artistic, however, the shots may not be up to that standard.
All in all the whole Big Apple experience was amazing, so much so that I can not settle back down into Irish PhD life.

Till next time

The cycle continues

Well the monthly cycle of blog posting continues. Today being the 17th of the month, my previous venture into the blogging world was the 18th September. This incidentally is my first blog post as a 28 year old. I do not feel any older. I think the feeling of age and the meaning of birthdays disappears once you hit 25, only to hit you on the head like an acme anvil from the cartoons when you hit 40. So I can safely say I am enjoying my wilderness years, and will worry about the readily advance years and my eventual demise when I hit 40.
Wow, that is a grime statement to make, and an area I do not wish to procrastinate upon. I do have a horrendous fear of death and of running toward the light (what ever that means).
Musically, I am very disappointed with the new Oasis album, it is frankly a pile of shit. They are also playing Slane this year. Not too sure how good that trip to the Meath countryside will be. I would like to say however, I am a massive Oasis fan, and I always have been. I had hoped for a whole lot more from "Dig out your soul'. Alas, it was not to be.
I have the pleasure to announce I am the proud owner of an iPhone. I caved to the hype. Having said that, it is the most amazing piece of equipment I have ever used. In the few short days it has revolutionised my life. Not to be over dramatic.
Soon I can see myself reinventing this blog as I become more comfortable with expressing my views and opinions. I feel that I am beginning to find my 'voice'. I am quite ashamed to make that statement, and I realise that the earlier blog posts have focused extensively on how I struggle to express my views. This issue of lost voices came up this week. In my role as a tutor for psychology, one final year course is on life-span development, and it covers the topic of female development and how through the enforcement of patrirchial views, females are forced to silence their voices and conform to the society. Despite the blatent sexism that the theory is based in, equally sexist as masoginistic theories of male superiority, it is a good example of how I struggle with writing to this blog.

Singing off for now

The cycle of blog

What the fluck?

It seems I have some sort of menstrual like cycle. i felt like I aught to write in this here blog, and have noticed a pattern. I write to it once a month around this time each time. I don't know what it says about me or even my life. Also are we allowed to use foul language on these blogs?

If so I shall delete a certain L in the opening statement.

Life is good, I have taken on a lot of teaching in College, and for the most part enjoying it. It will be a fun semester. 

Music wise. i have no gigs on the horizon and have not purchased much in the line of new stuff.  Looking for any suggestions that may be up my street.

Anyway, this is a rather random and rambling stream of consciousness post. Not much of a central theme in sight. As i end each blog, I hope to be writing more on it.