The first class I tried to go to today was in Smurfit and not Quinn so Quinn is out. I did end up going to two though, both in the Arts Block which I think is officially called the Newman building now? I'm guessing it's not cool to call it Newman yet. Newman himself's pretty cool. He says quite a lot in
The Idea of a University that can be quoted against UCD. There's a whole chapter arguing against the practical use of your degree and in favour of intellectual culture, so back to the Cons.
There are loads of people wearing them. Guys and girls, almost doesn't matter what colour. Only girls seem to be wear the low ones. A few people were about wearing canvas Vans, but nobody seems to be wearing skate-shoes. I'll keep an eye out now. I've a cheap pair of canvas shoes I bought one year when I had to buy clean clothes after Electric Picnic. I think they were €15 in H&M. I'll wear them in and get a photo up soon.
Are they still called Cons? Converse? Americans call them Chuck Taylors but I've never heard that here. Turns out Nike own Converse now so it's all Asian sweat-shop chic.
And there's no photo today because my iPhone died at lunchtime. I was waiting in the Newman building for someone and when I tried to call them again it was blank and not turning on/vibrating when muted. Luckily I got phone insurance three weeks ago so phone insurance is in! And the phone insurance was free with my
Ulster Bank account, so Ulster Bank are in! I also got €60 back from Ulster Bank this week because I bought my EP tickets through them. Is there a favoured bank I should know about? Everyone should just change to Ulster Bank. They're hardly going to fuck up again like they just did.
I ordered a phone on eBay to tide me over until I can get the new iPhone. Hopefully it will arrive by Friday and I can post photos next week.
