Darkness is a harsh term don't you think?

It's Christmas day on campus. That just means people act crazy all day. I really don't know why people complain about Americans so much. The Irish are louder by far. There are groups of people walking around with cans of beer or cider, open pint glasses, trash bins on their heads with lights, antlers, Santa hats of course, and they're all just screaming about the wind and rain. It's been raining all day. I don't know where any of them are going, or if they're going anywhere at all.

Our power is half out too. Anything that's plugged into an outlet works, so the fridge oven, my computer, all that's fine. But the lights don't work in the common room, hallway, or any of our rooms. So I finally lit my candle. It's tiny and doesn't help much, but it smells like soap.

I went to the store and everyone was buying alcohol. It was pretty funny. The college guys buy big cases of cheap beer, girls buy cider, and older people buy Powers and wine. It's really nice not getting carded at all. Most of the time I forget my ID when I go to the store anyway.

Tonight is a breakfast-for-dinner kind of night.

Okay the lights are back. Louise and I were standing out there just staring at the switch board and then Taige's ten friends come in and one really tall guy just flips them all up and ta da ta da ta da forever amen we have lights. It was one of those stereotypical girl moments...we don't know anything about electricity apparently. I thought that when something like happened it's just one switch that's different from the others. But I guess it can be a whole row. Now we know. But yeah. Taige has a bunch of people in his room now. It's going to be a crazy night here, but I won't be around for it.

I'm going to sleep at the airport again tonight because Adrianna gets in at half five in the morning. That's crazy. But the first bus out of Maynooth in the morning is seven. So she'd be waiting around for three and a half hours. That's a waste of time ya? I don't know what we're going to do at half five in the morning other than drink a lot of strong coffee, but it'll be grand.