So what’s up with me? Well at last we’ve been having great weather, and by great I mean fantastic. There’s no cloud in sight, or maybe there is but too far away, and the temperature outside is enjoyable. The good weather shifts procrastination from going outdoors to the office, which explains why I've been leaving work on time.

Last week I decided I need to start doing something to get fit. The motivation is the usual, a holiday is approaching and I need to have a certain level of fitness confidence to be able to tackle the glaciers or ski. Today is my first weekversary of my jogging, cycling and exercises plan. If I’ll manage to keep up with this till mid August I might consider it being a successful project. Apart from the fitness regime I’ve decided to start doing something about my diet which lately consisted of 60% beer, 30% junk food and the rest only God knows what. For starters I’ve told everyone at work so that they can exert social control when they see me munching biscuits, then I got (actually asked my friend) some vegetables and started making salads for lunch. I’m keeping up with it until now but this is nothing extraordinary – as usual the problem lies in continuing with this progress not merely starting, I start too many things only to forget about them days later.

This weekend: On Friday I hit the Porter House and met some new speech therapists from the small Island. I wonder whether there are any speech therapists left there, the situation must be pathetic. Overall the night was nondescript apart from meeting 3 occupational therapists from Zimbabwe. On Saturday I spent most of the day planning the New Zealand trip, and at last I've decided on a leaving date - 11th August at 0640am. If all goes well and I get on all fights I'll arrive on Sunday at around 5am, without having to live Saturday because of the time difference. At night I met my friends and we went to out to Dandelion and Sinnotts. On Sunday I went Blessington a small village in County Wicklow (read more).

On the cultural side yesterday I subscribed to the local library hoping to borrow Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, but I wasn’t lucky as the book was out on loan. Instead I got two books about Whales, an Ireland bird watching book and a travel photography book. This weekend I finished reading "The land of two halves" which is a fantastic travelogue on a hitchhiking journey in New Zealand.