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Go to wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List 3 neat facts, 2 births and one death in your journal including the year.

4th May 

3 neat facts
1776 - Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 
1991 - In Rome, Italy, Carola wins the thirty-sixth Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden singing "Fångad av en stormvind" (Trapped in a storm wind).

2 births
1008 - King Henry I of France (d. 1060)
1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (d. 1993)


1 death
1984 - Diana Dors, British actress (b. 1931)

Vomiting is never fun.

Well there's a picture of himself and myself, taken at Alternative Miss Cork last weekend. So yeah, the boy who outed me to my housemates is turning into something more serious. Isn't he a fla? :-)

AMC was great craic this year. The wonderous talent that is Hairy Scarey Mary Harness was once again denied victory but a silver medal for second place proves that she is still a major force in the world of drag. I was absolutely hammered for most of the evening... I ended up accidentally head butting Maeve at one point... we both had bruises to show for it later in the week!

I'm incredibly busy with Surgical Prof Units at the moment. Two weeks left with Prof Redmond. Enjoying this placement a lot more than my time in the Mercy though. Seeing a lot more, learning a lot more and the team are really friendly. Getting up at 6.30am every morning is a bit of a bitch though.

Pancake Tuesday was great fun in our house. The four of us (Brita is in Andorra) made complete pigs of ourselves. Kind of disgusting really!

Was messing around on flickr this morning and I had to upload this picture of Ger and Jane I took in Instinct last Christmas. Aren't they cute?

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Well shortly after yesterday's entry I ended up meeting him for lunch which turned into a four hour pseudo date. Which was quite nice. And there was textaul analysis last night. Don't really know where this is leading to if anywhere but at least I'm back in the world of dating real life people I guess :-)

Didn't get to see much of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony last night. Finally got around to seeing The Motorcycle Diaries. I really enjoyed it; in ways it reminded me a lot of my time in Africa last summer. It's very hard not to enjoy a film starring the beautiful Gael Garcia Bernal but there was a lot more to it than the fla. Almost as beautiful was the landscape and scenery in the film and the portrayal of the friendship between Ernesto and Granado. It surprised me for how apolitcial it was; it sketches a trip that seems to have sown the seeds of Ernesto's later politcal incarnation without becoming propaganda like in the least. Definitely the best "road trip" movie I've seen in quite a while.

Bought Buffy - Season 1 on DVD today. A naughty purchase given the fact I have but eight weeks of college left in this my final year but what the hell. I'll pace myself ;-)

Yeah well I was stupid to think somebody liked me anyway.
Nobody ever likes me in that way.

Stupid Micheál. Time to get back to my books.

Saw Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto last night. It was quite an entertaining pastiche and very enjoyable to watch but by the time it had come to a conclusion I did feel a little flat. Yes lots of genuinely funny humour but no character development whatsoever and a narrative that gets lost two thirds of the way through. Cillian Murphy is frighteningly feminine in his role as the cross dressing Kitten and it's a nice feather in his CV hat but I don't get all the praise that's being heaped on it. I guess it goes to show how poor Irish film-making has become.

Scotland surprised everyone by putting in a fine performance in Murrayfield yesterday to beat the mighty French. The French badly underperformed and I expect they'll come out all guns blazing next weekend in Paris in order to re-assert their superiority in the Championship. After the first weekend it's hard to pick a winner, but I would wager there'll be no grand slam this year... if the odds were good!

Speaking of odds the Euromillions jackpot was finally won last week. So we can stop dreaming of joining Dolores in Ireland's rich list for another month or two.

I've been neglecting my fitness lately so went to the gym on Saturday. Felt kind of sluggish after a couple of weeks boozing and stressing over surgery/the project. Went for a run last night and felt a bit better. My left knee is playing up a bit today but I don't think it's serious.

Schumi the cat is missing presumed dead by the way.

Schumi was our first ever family pet. He arrived as a tiny kitten on the evening of the US Grand Prix at Indianapolis in 2000. We decided were Schumacher to win the kitten would be named Schumi; were Hakkinen to win he would be christened Mika. Hakkinen's Mercedes self detonated on lap 19 and despite an unforced spin late in the race Schumacher won and set up his claiming of his first Driver's Championship for Ferrari.

And Schumi was born.

Being a Tom he's always been fun and fiery but he had mellowed significantly over the last coupe of years. For a family which had never been known as animal lovers it surprised many people how much we came to adore the troublesome Tom. Schumi's bobbies included being warmed by Mummykin's hairdryer, fighting with floorbrushes, stalking the ever feared vacuum cleaner, trying to sit on our laps if having chicken for dinner and dominating the open fire in our living room.

I now understand why people feel sad when they lose a pet.

*sniff*

Warning! Fans of Kate Bush could well find this video extremely offensive. In fact were Kate Bush dead (perish the thought) she would probably spin 1080 degrees if she knew of this video's existence.

One of the few interetsing things about the gay scene in Cork is Scary Mary Harness, a troubled and little loved drag queen from Sheffield who has made a name for herself by insulting, alienating, causing controversy and extolling the benefits of Cork city establishing a light rail network.

All the queens despise her but I think Scary Mary is the most entertaining thing to ever grace a stage in a gay bar in this town.

Of course I have a very low opinion of gay bars.

Anyway, ladies and gentlemen I give you Scary Mary Harness' very first music video; Withering Wuthering Heights

Coming soon the The Blizzard of Odd, presumably...