Saint Patty's Day

Basically, I love the Irish. They take a former slave who converted the pagans to Christianity and celebrate it in the only way they know how- extremely excessive drinking! Thanks Patty! Unfortunately I did not have the money or the time yesterday to drink beginning at 10 AM, as is apparently the custom for the true celebrators of Ireland's patron saint.

I was writing an essay or trying to force the printer to print it 5 minutes before it was due. The essay was about different factors that affect cell migration. 1500 words. Do you know anything about Rho GTPases or integrins or focal adhesion kinase? Neither did I before yesterday. Hooray!!

Anyway, after turning in the essay, I went back to my room for a nap. I opened the window, but had to close it again because even though my room is at least a five minute walk away from the center of campus, there were SO many people there drinking, I couldn't sleep because of the noise. I was not joking when I said 10 AM. I read an article about a 5 year old (or a 3 year old, one of the two) that was an alcoholic.  No joke. I swear, the English are just as bad as the Irish, and this holiday, which celebrates the Christianity of Ireland (which is also weird if you think about it because Ireland has all kinds of fights and issues due to the geographic split, which I think has a lot to do with Catholics vs Protestants) is dedicated purely to drinking as much as humanly possible. After my nap, Mike and I drank a bottle of wine (he drank most of it) and went to the LCR. So Saint Patrick's Day was pretty good on this end of the world :)

Hope you all had a good day too. I miss you all and none of you ever skype me :(