Today I did something slightly unusual, perhaps, but I've been itching to go to an Anglican service in St Fin Barre's (seriously: there are too many ways to spell this name; it's crazy). So, when my friend Claudia (from Germany) said she wanted to go too, & Nienke as well, we made plans to attend. To confuse it all, there are three separate services during the day; morning, almost noon, and evening. We went to the middle one (which is held at 11:15). This actually worked out best, since it is the Choral Eucharist service...so it wasn't overly awkward for me. They also had a baptism today, it was really nice. In fact, I thoroughly enjoyed the sermon...enough so that I'm seriously contemplating going again next week; it struck a chord.
The building is simply beautiful, even if it is rainy and cloudy and cold...and to see during a service is completely different from just touring it. It's so easy to remove the reasons behind why people felt it necessary to build such a building from the architecture; but it becomes impossible when faced with and participating in that reasoning.
Well, enough of my slight poetic-ness. I'll try and return to my usual frivolity now; I've been grave for too long, methinks.
I also gained valuable insight into why women wore so many petticoats in the olden days. That stone church was freezing! I really thought my legs would go numb, if it wasn't for all the standing. I'm glad I decided not to wear a skirt -- but after seeing that the temp was hovering around 40 degrees and the wind chill was much closer to 35, I figured that would be a bad idea.
I still have nerves in my legs, unlike most Irish girls (who, in all seriousness, wear mini-skirts when it's practically freezing outside; all for the purpose of clubbing).
Holiday decorations are going up in Cork! It makes me terribly giddy. I <3 Christmas time.
Although, I do have my self-imposed embargo of not listening to Xmas music until after Thanksgiving. Luckily, the shops just started playing those songs this past week -- when you can hear it over the din of people, anyway.
It also hailed two days ago. For about five minutes. But still: hail!
Also, when it decides to rain here the temperature seems to drop about 10 degrees. It's eerie. But I'm becoming terribly used to it & begin to look for the nearest shelter (if I left foolishly without my umbrella) as soon as I feel it.
In other, more boring news: I've my first assignment from my advisor. So, I actually have to get work done this week. Work being, continuing to flesh out my bibliography and writing summaries of those books on it that I've already read. Which, oddly enough, I had already started on the latter when he told us about this on Friday. I think I'm the overachiever in my class...& that's slightly bizarre.
Well, back to work I go! (Unless I get overly distracted by the rain...again.)
*If you can guess the musical I shamelessly parodied, then...well, then clearly you're a musical nerd like me, and thus earn cool points. :P
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