Then the war did soon engage, 'twas woman to woman and man to man, Shilelagh Law was all the rage, and a row and a ruction soon began!

Just to let you know that title should be read in a thick Irish accent, you know, rolling your "r"s and all of that. Now that you've done that you can't help but hear the rest of this blog in your head as a thick Irish accent....excellent. So as you can tell I am well on my way to Ireland, not without several mishaps including credit card fraud, migraines, stressing over lines and papers, and finally discovering in the airport that I have the wrong prescription contact in my left eye which I would fully believe has a whole hell of a lot to do with my migraines...hooray! Thank goodness I've got some awesome friends or I would've just gone completely insane and well, Ireland is not a place for mental breakdowns. But I am in the windy city right now, I have managed to take over my bro's MacBook as is evident by the cooky picture above that I took in the airport using my bro's camera. For a change it is me attached to the computer and my bro and sis are the ones who are quietly sitting and reading books...if I didn't have this awful headache I think I would go into a comatose state instigated by shock over this 360. However, I do have several wonderful books tide me over including Dubliners by James Joyce and a book about W.B. Yeats' poetry in Georgian Ireland...you know, some light airplane fare. But seriously, I am so excited, this is my second trip this year that I get to go someplace and study the Literature there, why is it that I can't do this all of the time and get paid for it?

AND apparently my sis (who is 13...ugh...puberty ) and the rest of her 8th grade English class will be studying Literature in England, Scotland , AND Ireland! Can we say, "I'm chaperoning"? Yes, please! Well, I guess we'll just see, but honestly, travel+literature=NOTHING BETTER IN THE ENTIRE WORLD!! (Okay, I might have exagerated a little tiny bit...add Broadway and it's a done deal!) And this is why I love college, it's like you put up with the public school bs for 13 years and your reward (should you so feel inclined) college! Hooray! I honestly don't know what I would do without AU, I absolutely have the most awesome people in my life and my professors are my personal heroes. I'm going to be acting in a play (Agnes of God) WITH Gail (she plays Mother Superior), I've seen two of my professors so much over the summer that they're pretty much family, and I have ultimately been blessed with some of the most intelligent people I know as professors who are so enthusiastic about their subject that it's catching. If I have one goal for the future it would be able to make learning as exciting and contagious as these individuals have done for me. And who knows? Maybe I'll be given the opportunity to one day do exactly that...but until then, first stop, Ireland, next stop? The world!