Add to the list of things I miss from home: The School Street Barber Shop

Thursday September 13, 2007

7:05 p.m., IST (Irish summer time – thanks James)

Dublin

The guys are downstairs heating up a frozen pizza (which I’m pretty sure represents all 5 basic food groups…maybe). I bought a bike Tuesday, picked it up yesterday, and rode it to school for the first time today. It’s about a 15 minute ride, but on a beautiful day like today (it was about 70 – Fahrenheit, not Celsius) and it worked out great. Weather permitting, having a bike will save me a lot of time and money.

I’ve now had all my classes, and they’re not bad. 2 of my classes are almost all Irish kids, and one is almost all Americans. It should be interesting to compare them. The best news I’ve gotten all week is that my operations class has been moved from Thursday to Tuesday, leaving me with the originally-envisioned Monday through Wednesday grind of a class schedule. (9 hours of class on Tuesday, though. Should be pretty brutal.)

Today’s big adventure, besides riding to and from school, was getting a hair cut. My hair wasn’t all that long, but longer than I wanted it and I figured “hey, I’m an American college student in Europe for 4 months, of course I have extra money to spend on a haircut.” On the way back from the bike shop on Tuesday I passed a barber shop with a responsible-enough looking person inside, so I figured I’d give it a shot and walked up there after class today. Unfortunately, I should have gone to the barber’s barber, as this guy wasted no time in chopping off a large section hair on the top of my head, prompting me to have him just take it all off and send me out of there sporting “The Woburn”. My hair grows fast.

I’m playing golf with John Culliney on Saturday, I’ll let you know how that goes.

7:27