So I suppose I should start blogging...

Hi everyone!

I apologize in advance for conforming to the 20something blogger stereotype, and also for assuming that I'm important enough that you want to read a ton about what is happening in my life, but after about the tenth email and fortieth facebook message wherein I covered the exact same information every single time, this seemed a logical way to go.

So as most of you know, I'm currently living in Galway, Ireland and attending National University of Ireland, Galway. My program is a master's program called Culture and Colonialism. It's more or less a literature/history hybrid degree on postcolonial theory. As you know, this puts me in nerddom heaven.

My classes haven't actually started yet. I've been here for quite some time, but it was for getting set up/orientation/etc purposes. My mom and I managed to go to Spain for three days, which was absolutely lovely. (I'll probably devote a different blog entry to that.) Since I've gotten back, I've been doing my last little bit of errands until class starts on Wednesday... eeekk. I hope I haven't gotten out of my study habits!

As for my living situation. I am living in a house with two other graduate students, both girls. They are named Siobhan (say like Shih-von) and Rebecca. Siobhan seems great. She just moved in last night, but we had a long chat at breakfast and she's super friendly and seems to like going out and having fun, so that seems advantageous. I've met Rebecca twice, one time while I was going out and she was coming in, and the other time when I was coming in and she was going out. Both times our conversation, as you can imagine, has not been extensive, but she also seems really nice.

I posted pictures on facebook of my first couple days in Ireland and of my new digs if you want to check those out. (I put them up and a week later my beloved Katy Janik began pestering me for pictures of my house. So I figure it never hurts to remind people.) I've also downloaded Skype. My name is molly.m.slavin. If you want to chat, please send me your name! If you're thankful you don't have to see my face for at least another year, please ignore that last bit of information.

Love and miss all of you!

Molly