i knew going into this specific book that it would be focused more on the anglo-irish side but i didn't really expect the situation to be this dire. especially when talking about pseudohistorical constructs and somehow not mentioning lebor gabala lmao what

"oh look at all this terrible colonialism," they say. "much colonial, very violence, wow." and yet also: "gaelic sources? never heard of them. sure why would the irish talk about themselves"

although not all quakers are christians! you can be a quaker and be an atheist, or it can be a way of expressing another faith (i know polytheist quakers, buddhist quakers, and a couple of jewish quakers). irish quakers tend to be more christian than british ones tho i've found

microsoft programmer in 2011 attending a spooky demonic ritual 20km west of dublin: i don't have the words to describe this

...i just get the dregs of information that make it into group chats and passing references from mutual friends. it's not a great feeling, but short of messaging every single friend constantly to ask about their job, i don't really know how to stay informed about their lives the way i'd like to

but facebook was never showing me my actual friends' posts anyway so i feel like i can't have missed that much from there. i suspect often it's just there's a lot of one one-on-one contact that i don't have (bc i'm not as close to those people, or bc my health stops me doing stuff) and then...

protip if your fellow band member has been imprinted on by a stranger and keeps trying to bring you into the conversation it's probably because they Don't Want To Be In That Conversation and would like some backup kicking the random person off the Literal Stage, Come On, What Is This Shit

also i am notably WAY more drained and migrainey today than i would have expected to be after a gig of that length. probably because i couldn't rest or drink water or look after myself due to being cornered by a stranger the entire night 🙃

the class is only like 11 people so this is a pretty big proportion of it. two people left partway through the afternoon yesterday and i don't know if they'll be back today so i may have just lost the two least annoying people in the class

is there anything worse in a classroom situation than 4-5 people who a) think they know more than the teacher and b) need to be right all the time