ruairi's Journal

i go home tonight not cause i'm not enjoying myself, simply because i am tired. cracking night in every sense of the word. i love u all

rurz x

Meanwhile, at the bar...
So not content with sweeping aside all contenders to proudly claim the chanter quiz (and it's alcoholic spoils) our brave heroes descend into the murky outreaches of gorgie/dalry to sample it's 6am opening establishments.

there they find a utopia of pints, pasties and polite rebuttals in the neverending quest to beat what is commonly known as a Monday morning. armed with only a handful of the queen's sterling and a seemingly endless joie de vivre our four brave characters order pints of finest local ale, dance the gay gordon (a scottish folk dance to our cousins across the water) and have a thoroughly good time.

alas however every noble feat has a bitter consequence, and the collateral damage to this particular excursion is unfortunately my dissertation. that once proud tradition of academic research has become a byword for self doubt and blind panic in the eyes of our rugged young hero, and today it shall not rear it's ugly head.

that is all
Rurz x

'Do you guys want to go somewhere else'... the instant you know you may have overstayed your welcome. For best effect one should be drinking red wine from a shot glass and admiring tasteful yet explicit works of art.

Current Mood: horny
Current Music: lies and regrets- ruairi and the loveshacks

Dia duit a chairde...
Back in norn arn after a mini trip of Ireland 'proper'. As Nico will testify was feeling very celtic, admiring the views and stuff while drinking guinness and eating seafood, mmm. Now i've a week of gofling, indoor football and european football on the box to look forward to, woohoo, including the glamour tie of 5 time european champions Derry C-I-T-Y against French minnows PSG.

Back in the land of alba on Sunday afternoon, and i expect no less than a red-carpeted-champagne welcome and some sort of civic reception. you may also be aware from watching Al-jaazera that i have launched a holy crusade on a certain letting agency. would very much like my deposit back!

anyway, will be seeing ya'll soon
Ruairí x

Current Mood: hyper
Current Music: 'give me one good reason' Neighbours tune

remember me..?
well hello all,

has been a terribly long time since i could be arsed to update, so in theory this edition should be a fun-filled journey of dizzying highs and terrifying lows, but it isn't. nothing to report captain. working away, trying to save some money while simultaneously worrying about exams and the whole uni thing. i'm in the middle of a 7 day stretch of split shifts, which works out at about a 66 hour week (just a tad over the 15 hour uni recommendation). i know if it all goes tits up i'll have only myself to blame, but at the moment uni motivation is about as low as it's ever been, and belgian federalism just doesn't get me as frisky as it should.

gonna try and spend my ill gotten gains on traveling somewhere hot, or at least somewhere with a beach slightly hotter than portabello. after my op at the end of may i'll hopefully be coming back in june with a lot more free time, woohoo! so any suggestions for budget locations or random excursions are welcome. answers on a postcard...

slan, rurz x

Current Mood: optimistic
Current Music: gay disco

what else is there?
ladies and gentlemen, i just had the best shower of my young life. it lasted about 20 minutes, i listened to Xfm scotland and had a budvar. yeah!

no-one's in the flat so clothes have become optional. in one of those old-school-listening-to-crap-dance-music-before-i-go-out-kinda-moods, so royksopp is currently keeping half of this terraced street entertained. off out with blondie, and soon to be squaddie ewan tonight, to some of edinburgh's less upmarket establishments.. interesting!

i trust u are all well

rurz x

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: royksopp- what else is there?

don't look back into the sun...
just in from last night, cracking time (i've been graciously informed)

junction prices, and my fondness for alcohol are an unforgiving double act. anyway, off to work in fenwicks on the busiest night of the year so far, and i'm not exactly awake. this could prove to be fun. i'm in tonight, tomorrow monday and tuesday. yeah for money! yeah for no sleep!

apologies if i was a dick to anyone last night, i'm starting to worry about my conduct when i've had a few. believe it or not i don't like acting like an arrogant twat! might have to follow my dad's advice and stop enjoying whisky so much. nico, any misunderstandings i hope are forgiven.

cheery-bye x

Current Mood: mischievous
Current Music: royksopp- what else is there?

wikipedia rocks! am a bit bored and not quite in the mood to do MORE revision so found out that Lars Von Trier, Kirsten Dunst and John O'Shea were all born on my birthday. It's debateable as to who'd make a better left back this season....

cheery-bye x

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: the flaming lips- do u realise

first exam in 18 months in about an hour and a half, followed by the exam of doom on thursday. i've only got back into the academic swing of things to a certain extent, so it'll be fun to c how this goes. after that though there's only a couple of restaurant shifts and then can think about christmas, yeah. speaking of which i need to buy some presents. oh and i can't sleep, was awake to hear juan go to work at 6:42! hope ya'll well punks, word out x

Current Mood: nervous
Current Music: arcade fire- neighbourhood

...sure its better than drinking alone.
lying in bed with no motivation to do anything whatsoever. not in a good way i feel like i just want to go back to sleep and write today off. was probably a dick last night. i had the motor running steadily in the self-destruct gear. got pissed, nearly got in a fight etc. probably upset people who are close to me for no good reason other than that i was too drunk to think rationally. evil rurz was out in force last night, and a more sober, rueful ruairi is regretting his actions.

mew x

Current Mood: drained
Current Music: arab strap- fucking little bastards

hi, we're here from the independent....
ok... last night was fun,

1) lunch in the filling station on rose street
2) a relaxing pint in the candy bar
3) ricks
4) bar ablo
5)harvey nick's bar... for a relaxing time, make it 'sunthory thyme'
6) baroque
7)what i thought was the basement but wasn't
8)the basement
9) an evening for all-blacks rugby legend sean fitzpatrick, which we nearly gatecrashed under the guise of journalists, managed to blag our way past two levels of security but were finally stopped
10) aspen, it's like they ripped the soul out of bam bu
11) teviot, and by this time i'm slightly tipsy, shit loads of pool and i'm starting to play like jimmy white
12) a long, lonely stagged home, after which i have some kind of coughing fit and nearly die
13) drunken msn chats with dubai/preston girl till half 3

now that's a night out!

total spent, about £60, motivation today, -127,980, chance of me doing any meaningful study today, about the same as utd winning the champions league this year.

i trust you are all well, a bientot x

Current Mood: and broke!
Current Music: babyshambles- fuck forever

so yes.... paris...
just got back from Paris,

was a bit random. went to work at half 5 as normal on friday, left bierex at 1.30, and even though i wasn't drunk (shock) decided to go to prestwick and get on the flights i had booked for me and v (and yeah i'm not her favourite person right now). was absolutely shattered by saturday night -what with not having slept and all- and fell asleep early with a head full of 'Lies and regret'....

yesterday though was GREAT! woke up at about 10, and hopped on the metro to the Champs-Elysees. spent hours walking around, seeing the sites like the louvre, le centre pompidou, l'arc de triomphe,etc. after that i found this cracking tabac and read the sunday independent, had a few espresso, and had a couple of lucky strikes. so far so good.....

then i happened across a little irish bar on the rue de montmartre. ended up watching the hibs/rangers match then the west ham/utd match. yeah! it was snowing when i arrived, and sunny when i wanted to c the sights, so it really was fun. paris is a beautiful city

back to porridge tomorrow, or should i say uni then work. ah well, can't complain!

a bientot x

Current Mood: impressed
Current Music: babyshambles- fuck forever

dia duit a chara...
well that was fun...

back in lovely ecosse after a cracking weekend at home, i watched 7 football matches, drank close to a million pints and sent far too many utterly stupid drunken txt messages. saw harry potter too, which was thoroughly enjoyable. i've decided i'd like to be transfered to that school in france, so i can hang out with fleur and her mates.

in real life i'm still undecided about this weekend. got flights booked to paris and still very tempted to go. knowing me though i'll decide on saturday morning.

i trust you are all well. back to the grind of uni tomorrow but enjoying it quite a bit at the moment. even did reading for my tutorial at 15,000ft. hehe! so now there's exactly a month till i go home again for christmastide. by all accounts its gonna be one hell of a month, with uni, fenwicks restaraunt madness and general wholesome debauchery.

yeah! a bientot x

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: arab strap- the shy retirer

i've started so i'll finish...
well that was fun...

stupid night last night. juan and me went for a 'quick pint' in sandy bells at 4. yes a quick pint, ending 10 hours later staggering out of ego. woke u this morning unsure if any of my limbs were working,but i managed to drag myself into a lecture on social constructivism, wow.

thoroughly enjoying myself at the moment. tis fun being single. doing a fair bit of uni work (which is good) but just having great craic when i'm not! i got a camp yet political basque t-shirt. herri batasuna!

anyway kids, i fear i may be slightly under the influence as we speak, so i shall go and read the 28page reading on the construction of belgian nationalism.... Genk?

home on thursday and thoroughly looking forward to it. been a while since i was home, and since baz has split with his ladyfriend there may be a need for a liquid lunch or two.

toodle-pip
rurz x

Current Mood: flirty
Current Music: blur- tender (cornelius remix)

by the time i left ego i've had 21 different shots of whisly. for this i primarily blame mr nico. sorry for running scared but a 6 foot 4 scary woman from banngor was trying to empregnate me so i thought better of it! i hope that u are all well

bonsoir x

hello all

novembers are weird. it seems that so much happens when this month swings around. apologies to my flatmates for being so noisy last night. weird after pub soiree till about half 6. again, sorry!

bit of a weird mood. single, hungover and annoyed at myself cause i missed my lecture today. working in my call centre tonight, but then coming home and sleeping. i don't really have the motivation to do anything at the moment, i just want to go back to bed and listen to the arcade fire loudly on repeat. not even that down or depressed, just being award-winningly lazy.

anyhow, i trust you are all well, will speak to u all soon

rurz x

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: colin and edith

cock o' the north
truely one of the greatest weekends in ruairi's young life. it was a bit like august condensed into 3 nights. preston itself isn't the most pretty of children, but the people are so cool! (especially the st. helen's folk).

managed to get to old trafford for the utd spurs game. after nearly spending £80 on as ticket from a tout i got in with a season ticket holder, who only charged me £26 quid, and gave me a can of stella and a joint! plus was in the stretford end. now that's a deal.

little bit sleep deprived now though. only had about 2 hours of sleep a night, and even that was on the floor. but at least the excessive amounts of beer eased the pain. either that or share a single bed with two other very drunken irishmen... to be honest i'd prefer the floor.

anyhow, i'll quit my stupid rambling and go now. to all at uclan, cheers x

Current Mood: rejuvenated
Current Music: arctic monkeys- bigger boys and stolen sweethearts

well hello all,

it's been a while since i last updated, nearly 3 months. which when i think about it pretty much flew bye. august was absolutely brilliant. late n' live is an institution that should always be in edinburgh, and i miss pubs being open all the time! i've made a concerted effort to be good this year. i've been to uni pretty much every day (and even done essays and stuff).

more importantly though the neighbour's 20th special's on followed by the mighty utd, now that's a night in!

oh and i think i've got a job, working for MORI polls Scotland. probably very boring but it pays the green. oh, and i might be applying for a job in france over the summer- not in a tent though.

keep it easy kids, a bientot
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Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: the arcade fire- wake up

i feel like i'm stuck in one of arab strap's more uplifting songs at the moment, but maybe it's just that it's my day off and i've nothing better to do than sit in the 'easyinternet' place on rose st. i quite fancy getting drunk, but the last time i did i was a dick, so i'm not going to. i want to do something political, just to make my presence felt. but i probably won't.....

Ya Basta, Ya dancer!

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