Day 28

There are some very tired eyes about today, mostly due to the fact that a lot pf people went out in the piss last night.

For those that haven't realised it ny now, I'm not staying with the majority of the students, they're all staying in lodgings just next to the school, so there's obviously a slight camaraderie that I'm not privvy too, it doesn't bother me really though as I'm now pushing 30 something and I've paid a fair chunk of money to come here, so I'm here to work (*remember this sentance, as it's a complete contradiction to what's coming later). But with this in mind, and the fact that it's half way through the course, why do people keep asking me what cottage I'm staying in? I mean for gods sake it's been 6+ weeks!. What do they think I do? Go back to my room and lock myself in there until day light breaks? Aside from that though, i've got a pretty good rapport with most of them, but I'm definitely suffering from Mature Student-itis a little bit. FIrst think on Saturday, I'll go to town and buy a Ramones t-shirt, that should do the trick.

We did have a really rather inspirational talk by a producer of Goats cheese who came in to talk to us about the process, and what she personally gets out of it. I'm not kidding, it was really fascinating. I'm hoping to go up there next week and watch them make it.

*We've got exams on Friday, and I've not learnt any of the lettuce leaves or herbs yet. The herbs I reckon I should be okay with, but there is about 15 of them. It's the leaves I'm more worried about. Still got 3 days though, it should be okay.

I was going to go on about some of the crazy things that I've seen/heard in Ireland, but I'll leave that till next week as I've rambled on a bit here.


MARK'S TIP OF THE DAY
Okay this is another really simple one, but really useful.
Imagine this scenario, you've making an omelette or scrambled egg. You've cracked the eggs into a bowl, but goddamn, there's a bit of shell gone in to it. What do you do? Leave it in there? Scrape it out with a knive or your fingers? No!. You get half of the shell, and use that to get it out. It's like magic, the two shells just seem to attract each other.

I know it's simple, and I know most people know it already. But if it improves just one persons life, then it will all be worth it.