Just working

So this weekend I really tried staying in. I guess it's not super freezing outside, as mom pointed out, it's supposed to be 'mild' here. It is mild. But when you're used to being inside all the time, the 'mild' cold weather feels cold cold. Like at home, when you're leaving for work or to go out, you start in the house. You are outside for about 10 seconds before you turn on the heater if your car needs it. Then you drive. You are dry. No wind in your face. Set the temp to keep you comfortable. Then you arrive at your destination, depending on where you are, you may have to face walking for about 30 seconds outside, until you get inside another warm comfortable building. So even if the weather here is not much colder than it is in SC right now, it feels worse cuz I'm outside for a lot of it. Walk to the bus. Wait for the bus. Get off the bus. Walk around campus or town. Walk to the shop to get a snack. Walk to the laundry room. All of this walking is outside. It could be worse. But still, it's not what's normal. When you're used to being inside all of the time, then this is cold. When I'd go to work and it was in the 40s, I'd have a short sleeve shirt on and a jacket on top. That's cuz I'd be outside for a total of 60 seconds tops! But here you're outside most of the time. And also, you may remember, my school is old. Way older than our country. and luckily for me, my classrooms are not in really new up to date places. My music classroom is cold! It over looks the front outside of Trinity. You can see the street and all the cars and people. And there may be heat somewhere, but it doesnt stay trapped in there too long.

Today I walked to campus and decided to blow off my film screening and instead met up with LeeAnn and we went to KC Peaches, this sandwich/coffee shop sorta place. It's quite a ways out from Trinity. Then we walked back to the national archive and library, which was the reason we went so far to eat. We were in there for a while. I realized that a lot of my research will have to be done from my computer first. Like, if I want to see a program from a theatre in 1917, then I'll need to go to the newspapers and find out when the play was performing, and then I can ask for the date of the program.

I'm writing (or supposed to be writing) my proposal for my dissertation. Other that not knowing how to write a proposal, I'm having trouble finding an angle for it too. And I have a couple of different ideas. Writing this proposal wont mean I cant change my mind, but I do have to figure out which idea I think I'd be best following up on. I may focus on an Irish playwright called Dion Boucicault, whose works were first produced in the mid 1800s, and i found that one of his plays that premiered in 1860 was most recently reproduced in NY in 2003. So that could give me an idea of how this one particular play has changed throughout the years, technologically speaking. I just have to figure out how to write it so it sounds intelligible.

I'll see what my prof says, cuz really the ones who are turning in their proposals are the film students, so my prof may tell me she doesnt need it right now, since it will be focused on the theatre. Who knows. But then i'll spend the rest of this week doing primary research so i can be prepared to do my presentation next week. Unfortunately the presentation is the day before I leave, so there wont be much down time before coming home.

Other than that I've had little more going on. I went to Immanuel Church Dublin on Sunday night. On friday I went to the Irish film institute, which was small but cool. Thank goodness I'm not doing much film work cuz you have to pay each time you go there. Trinity used to cover the fees for the students but dropped that this year. We went down to the film cellar where they work with films. There was one film that a guy was working on that was from Mass in the late 50's and it was their St Patrick's day parade, i think, and real quickly you see a little kid go out in the street and shake JFK's hand, before anyone knew who he was. That's interesting to have on film. They also have films like one of the beatles in germany, and all you could hear was screaming and some singing. But it's more than just professional films, tho they have all professional films. It's filled with home movies and lots of amateur films. They run thru them quickly but we could have the opportunity if we wanted to go thru it more carefully to find stuff. Either way, i wont be doing much there. And lets see, the day before that, on Thursday, when a bunch of you were at Laura's party, I went to a concert. The group was called Marillion. Steve sent me some of their music a little while back. And Arielle and I decided to go. They are a British rock band but this was their acoustic tour. They've been playing since the 80's and 90's. They sounded great and were really funny and the Irish crowd was very interactive with them so it was a good time all around.

Anyways, i need to work on some research... That's my blabbing for today