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[doyle]

I am perversely proud of having lived in Ireland for all of my 22 years without ever celebrating St. Patrick's Day. But happy Wearing Green And Getting Plastered day, everybody. I'm just enjoying getting the day off uni.

Of course, I should use this day off to do my essay (due tomorrow), not obsess over House and poke at Angel/Lost fic for the Lyric Ficathon.

I'm convinced one of my professors is downloading House. We were looking at a spectrum of a star. Why, he asked, would two lines of Fe X have different intensities? When we stared blankly at him he made us list all the possible causes, wrote them on the whiteboard, and crossed them out as we eliminated them ("can't be temperature, they're in the same part of the star..."), finally drawing a triumphant circle around "atomic data". Differential diagnostic astrophysics. Pretty sensible, really.

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[rheanna27.livejournal.com]

I'm celebrating by writing porn. And yay for having the day off! I'm off work and it's delightful.

[par-avion.livejournal.com]

Hee!

[neverneverfic.livejournal.com]

happy Wearing Green And Getting Plastered day

do people in ireland actually do that? i had a teacher in high school from ireland who used to tell us all that the actual irish mocked the american irish b/c of their zealous st. patrick's day celebrations.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Students don't need much of an excuse to get very drunk but yes, there is much mocking of American St. Patrick's Day stuff. (Until I came to university I wasn't sure of the date of St. Patrick's Day beyond "sometime in March". We never used to get off school, let alone make a big thing of it. I was raised in an area that's almost entirely Protestant, though.)

[neverneverfic.livejournal.com]

oh good, i feel better now. i'm not a fan of st. patrick's day, it's always pleased me that the actual irish mock it, especially since i grew up with a bunch of kids who used to like to play 'more irish than thou'

of course, being a student, i am going to be going out and getting drunk today. mmmm hypocrisy.

[rheanna27.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to tell you how old I was before I realised Dun Laoghaire and Dunleery were the same place. ::facepalm::

[luna-k.livejournal.com]

I am perversely proud of having lived in Ireland for all of my 22 years without ever celebrating St. Patrick's Day.

::falls over ded from teh shock::

Dude, I thought the country effectively shut down and turned into a huge green drunken orgy parade on this day. How'd you escape the partying all these years?!?

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

*g* I was brought up in an area of N. Ireland that's almost totally Protestant, and it just wasn't celebrated. I was never even aware of it - our schools didn't close or anything.

In Belfast it's more of a thing, and most people get the day off work and uni/school, but really all that goes on is the bars are very full and there are people wandering around in silly hats.