My Ireland

Alright. There are a bunch of posts wandering around containing "common knowledge" questions about various countries. These appear to have originated somewhere in the black morass that is fanfic-meta-fandom. A lot of people appear to be missing the point. The point goes like this: each person's experience of any place is subjective. I've read some of the ones about Ireland, and I'm amused, though not surprised, that they don't describe the Ireland I know, or knew growing up. Nor, in many cases, could I answer the questions being asked.

I don't live in Ireland anymore; I happen to reside in Dublin, which isn't the Ireland I grew up in, and further, I live in a world of my own creation and commute to work on a global network of computers. Here, however, is my set of "common knowledge" questions, from where I was brought up, Protestant in north Wexford in the 80s and 90s.

( Wild Wild South East )

Many of those are questions to which not knowing the answer would have been embarrassing. In some cases, mortifying.

Weekend

So, this evening I am going to go home from my job working on the internet, have dinner and play LotRO for a while with inannajones, sort out my EVE decks, and go out to Fibbers later on for the pre-Gaelcon drinking.

My fifteen year old self is DED OF TEH GREEN ENVY.