Inspections

are tomorrow. I did all the dishes and put them away and cleaned all the counter tops. My shelf in the fridge is perfectly clean. I'm not touching the oven because it was already dirty when we got here and I've only used it once anyway. I'll do the microwave tomorrow if no one else has done it by then. Nate said he'd take out the garbage. Our "hoover" is broken. They don't say vacuum here. I think my room is tidy. A little cluttered, but there's a real lack of space and they can't get too mad at me about that. And our hoover is broken. Carpet never looks clean unless it's been hoovered so I have given up hope. I'm not worried about failing though. I also don't plan on being here in they hours they are coming around--12 to 6.

My new American peeps invited me to go to Belfast with them this weekend! I'm really excited. I have to go down to the Student Union building in the morning to get my FREE student travel card. I should have done it when I first got here, but I didn't want to pay for it. Since I opened an Irish bank account and I'm technically a first year student here, I get one for free. After I get that I'm meeting Madison at noon to walk down to the train station and get tickets. They are around 60 Euro round trip...kind of expensive, but I'm not going to think about it. If I want everything to cheap I'll never get anywhere. My roommate was saying they have different money in northern Ireland. I think they use pounds, but I don't remember right now. That's an even worse exchange rate.

I've been looking at hostels in Madrid too. The highest rated one is booked for the weekend I'm going to be there, but second highest is actually one of the cheapest, so I'm prepping myself to pay that 70 Euro for three nights in a few more days.

So, I bought Ulysses today. I forgot how huge it was. And it's written really weirdly so it's kind of hard to understand. It's going to be tough to get though, but I am determined. For the class I need it for--Modernism--we aren't even reading the whole thing, but I can't just read half a book. It will forever bother me until I suck it up and just finish it. I still bothers me that I didn't finish Without Remorse and The Poinson Wood Bible. They are going on my list.

I came here with two books. Look what happened.