Category Archives: Random stuff

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Graduating from Trinity

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Wednesday, 29-October-2025

The day is finally here.

11 months of work. A few thousand hours of effort. Probably around 3,000, give or take.

Lots of frustration. Friendships made, friendships strained.

A crush. A relationship. A love. Built and developed, one moment at a time, step by step.

Top marks earned. One reading, one paper, one exam and one presentation at a time. One by one, studying and learning and focusing and breaking and cracking under the pressure. Rebuilding myself, only to break again… and then to be helped up, to stagger forward a bit more.

All for this. A parchment, handed to me, just one person in an endless stream of faceless celebrants.

Success and completion, at least for a moment, before we were sent on to the next challenge.

A dinner party in Dublin

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Tuesday, 09-Sept-2025

After our legendary trip to Bulgaria, Andrea and I kept up the pace with a bit of a more relaxed and home-focused adventure – getting all our new neighbors together for a dinner party!

Everyone cooked up their own specialties – I made pulled pork, Andrea made banitsa, our Argentine neighbors made arepas, and tons of other amazing bits. I adored it – one of the things I love about our floor is that it smells amazing, all the time. There’s always someone cooking something glorious, and now we got to taste little bits of everything!

An anniversary of a personal sort

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Monday, 13-October-2025

My last post was a one-year anniversary of my D&D group… this post is similar, but of a slightly more personal aspect – Andrea and I celebrated one full year together!

I can’t believe it’s already been a full 12-months… a full year of joy, of learning, of exploring and working together. Challenges and successes, deep conversations and amazing meals. I can’t overstate just how amazing my partner is, and how thankful I am to have met her.

I can try to celebrate it, though – and celebrate that anniversary we did! A lovely dinner at a nearby French restaurant, followed by cocktails at a nearby speakeasy, hidden in Temple Bar. Not nearly enough to celebrate the amazing woman sitting across from me, and what we’ve built together… but it was a start.

And we’ve got a lifetime to continue celebrating.