<td align="center"> Caitriona de Burca --
[noun]:

A level headed person who always makes the wrong decision

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com</td>


i think this is a very fair assessment of me (especially when i consider any and all mountbatten exploits) ....turns out that what is in a name is quite true.

am home in less than 24hours, cannot wait!!! :D

first batch of photos uploaded to bebo. have a look if interested.

deburcac5.bebo.com


is a public webpage so no need to be on bebo to have a look. :)

the screen on my ibook has given up the ghost...this means that i can no longer access anything on my computer! gutted! especially as aoife had agreed to lend me her ipod while i am away and now i cant upload any songs cos stupid computer screen is blank! then i discovered today that my ibook should have been sent back to the stupid mac people last year but since i had no problems with it until this monrning (24hours ago it worked perfectly!) i never had cause to go to the support pages. vv sad. only good thing is have managed to upload all the photos i had taken in the last weeks to bebo.

in other news, i am in possession of a very shiny visa that lets me fly on sunday, joy! now my mother needs to work her upgrade magic for me and ask our neighbour vv nicely to bump me up!


must go pack...and have little mourning session for my beautiful mac. its revenge cos i decided not to bring it with me and was gonna trade up for a swanky new macbook...

so i finally got a job placement on my internship and ill be working for hte Chartwell Education Group, whose founder is the former Secretary for Education, Rod Paige (black republican - i suppose stranger things have happened). but the best thing about them is that their office is on the 75th floor of the Empire State Building - this is the best work location ever!!!!! happy days for me! :D :D

I really shouldnt let myself go to coppers and i really shouldnt go to capitol beforehand where every cocktail on the menu is 5e...it makes me be bold...

have been to coppers twice in the last weekish, last nite and last sunday and have kissed 5boys and given my number to 3 of them! i dont do that, perhaps its the whole im going away so if they do call ill be like oops leaving the country in 3weeks, my bad...

but thanks to my kissing someone michelle knows, i now have to go on a date on tuesday! i dont do dates ever!! and i cant even get away with cinema cos apparently thats cheating. i think im gonna have a relapse tomorrow and say im too sick to meet up with him...its not like i can actually remember what he looks like, u know? stupid catfluff.



having had some time to ponder, im quite happy with my tally as i managed to get 2mayo, 1galway, 1cork, and 1laois...to add to my county collections and the curse of being stuck with kildaremen is lifted.

going to mexico tomorrow so heres the site ill be uploading photos and updating my stories...bebo is a wee bit too slow. http://www.getjealous.com/deburcac

gonna miss u all and send me addresses if you want a postcard! :)

short post and maybe longer one when go home. am vv knackered after concert but has satisfied my need for good music and sexy musicians.

sat: decent bands, shite weather, shite sound (only on main stage but luckily had a mechanical engineer with me to find the best spot where the sound improved - see geeks are great!)

sun: brilliant bands, good weather (got burnt - not my fault!), good sound, home not too late.

camping: still not my favourite pasttime but not too bad. pity bout rain on sat.

did not kill big sister (was surprsed at that one myself!)

portaloos not completely mank...even on sun nite could find one that had toilet roll, a clean seat and running water...

food was great.

now for lunch and a nap.

so going to mexico with trincesstiara but have a wee bit of a problem, need to be contactable at all times in mexico not due to sad need to stay in touch with people, well actually yes but more in the i might not get to go to NYC way if i dont have a phone number. having surfed the plethora of irish mobile providers apart from meteor (my own lovely network that definitely wont work in lovely mexico!) and found that none of them seem to work so well outside of civilised countries which means mexico! so now am kinda wondering about cellhire??? vodafone suggest this option but would it not work as long as i have a triband phone and make sure i use a nice network?? k, am fairly knackered so have no idea if that made sense or not, butt any suggestions would be appreciated...

apart from minor phone panic, life is good. got last minute ticket for oxegen so yay and am in final countdown for finishing work! double yay!

So, yet again edinburgh was terrific... and on this, my fourth visit, i managed to actually go into the castle and pay...im not cheap but 15e to see a castle is not my idea of a nice thing, plus no student discount! it was quite good though, the views from the castle were nice and the crown jewels were pretty. not wanting to go back there anyways!

apart from the castle, pretty mucht the only other sightseeing i did was go to camera obscura....LOVED IT! would recommend to everyone to go there. soo much fun and it turns out i make a gorgeous manga character...its only a pity u cant print the photos!

interview went well and i got placed on the panel...its not 100% certain am going to nyc but its looking pretty good cos im pretty much better qualified than most of the people applying! go me.

had fun chatting to ppl in pubs as well...fairly hilarious really on wed nite, tink all the freaks were out and gravitated to our table....examples of questions:

Randomer: So how long have you been from Dublin?

Me: All my life.

Hmm, go figure, oh and before I forget, another beauty.

Randomer: Stop speaking in an English accent, you're Scottish.
Me: Im irish actually (only my 20th time telling him).
Randomer: No, youre from somewhere like Dundee/Aberdeen.
Me: Nope, Irish (getting slightly frustrated).
Randomer appeals to trincesstiara and lou...who agree wtih him (cows!)
Me: Nope, Irish and rattle off a very long sentence in Irish....
Randomer: Why are you speaking in a foreign language...youre scottish....

it was fun but in the end, not so much!

am in work at the mo so putting off going to find something to eat cos dont want to sit outside cos feel miserable and fluey so will be wanting to feel depressed all day...not making much sense anymore really.

photos for edinburgh and of randomer will be seen on my bebo page and trincesstiara's also.

looks like im heading to nyc on September 10!!!!!!!! happiness is me!

So i'm in the middle of my project proposal to win the tender for the launch of the Ryder Cup and golf exhibition etc. when it struck me that the eurovision was on next week. So I checked and it turns out that my presentation (counts for 20%) of my grade is on the thursday. Not a huge deal, it's only the semifinals but then......i realised that the final is on 20 May. Now this is not any ordinary saturday, oh no, its the date of the bon jovi concert in croke park! its not fair. two of the things that i have looked forward to most in the month of may and theyre on the same day. of course bon jovi will be a great gig but i know that while its going on, my heart will be pining for all the dodgy songs that eurovision always seems to come up with....lets just hope jon bon jovi wears leather trousers again, i know that sure perked me up last time! ;)

right, back to my project. stupid last minute thing where i only bother to start it less than 24 hours before its due. not bad by my college standards but i have work all day tomorrow so theres no way i can do a little bit here, a little bit there, nope its a must not get distracted, focus on the work thing...and to think i chose to put myself through this. yup am definitely crazy!

I am soo tired today. Why is it that even though I had a long weekend, it already feels like I need another break? I suppose it didn’t help that I was working last night until 11pm.

( weekend )

( exboyf )

So I thought I should really update since I haven’t since before I went away. Been too lazy I suppose. Plus the whole typing all day at work means it’s effort at home then.

New york was fabulous. Spent an obscene amount of money and did fit some cultural stuff in. it was mainly about the shopping though. Bought lots of great things, mainly for work but some for play! Managed to meet lux_alexander who took me on an interesting tour to Soho, which was well appreciated by myself and the girls. Best buy has to be my jem and the holograms tshirt and sweatpants (soo in with the lingo!).

Apart from that I got an interview for the internship in New York I applied for so hopefully ill get that. The interview is in Edinburgh so I get to go there for holidays as well. Trincesstiara is going to accompany me along with non-lj ppl, who will no doubt encourage me to do embarrassing things and capture them on camera for bebo.

I am no longer even possibly going to Japan. Got offered an alternate spot but have completely lost the will to go there. Instead, if my NY thing falls through, I will hopefully be doing a masters in international management. It means I will be dividing my time between boston and reutlingen/dcu while getting into major debt due to the cost of the masters and also the cost of living in the US and not technically being able to work there! Btw, lux_Alexander, its northeastern uni in boston…would be great if you knew something about it? I know theyre called the huskies but that’s pretty much it, oh and they have fabulous squash courts. What more could a girl want, right?

Ok, enough waffle. This is what happens when one is at work and wants to avoid doing any. Oh well, now that noone can see my screen, I might just play a bit of minesweeper for a while…

somebody wanna cheer me up? feeling distinctly uncheery this afternoon...

So i don't know if anyone actually read the little bit in the irish times about how we won colours and more importantly how the ladies fourth team (that would be my team) were the ONLY ladies team to actually win their match against the oiks so if you didnt know already, well there you go! so mesa very very happy!! my last ever colours *rubs a tear from eye* and we won! it was a lot of fun as well. started drinking at 1 (very reserved really, most ppl were drinking since 10) and then went to the ball, where i got quite drunken and ended up flirting lots. no scoring though cos the guys were more drunk than i was plus i really wasnt sure they were strictly "legal" in the whole, i am SO not scoring a fresher sense...ended up in clonshaugh and then got a taxi home costing megabucks...oops but sure im earning and it turns out that i can stay in this job now until pretty much when i leave for wherever so happy days! now must go check flights for st. petersburg...

so guess what? i have an interview for JET!! pretty cool methinks, although theres probably bout a billion ppls going for it....but at least im one of them! so am a happy bunny. it means i would *crosses fingers* go to nagano...mmm skiing. now to remember what exactly i said on my app form and enrol in a tefl course, am thinking cheapo online one for the mo anyways cos in other news...am officially a student again! well part time and in dbs so i dunno if that counts as a college but still. am doing a diploma in event management and pr, much fun will be had and i might actually learn something useful. no other real news, works going fine, we're still only winning cup matches in hockey and i booked my flights to new york! (almost forgot that one!?!) so yeah lux_alexander had better be in nyc the week after paddys day so that i can get shown around by a real new yorker! okay am vvv tired so going for a snooze. also my hair isnt that blonde yet but its getting there. i get away with so much stupider stuff when im blonde, i totally forgot that, go figure!