Well I went to the poker re-match on Saturday, thus confirming my life as a bachelor as I ate pizza and had a beer. I think playing a man is starting to affect me. Luck was on my side as really I have very little strategy and I was winning when I had to leave to go to my final performance of Hamlet. So I give my huge pile of chips to someone else on the agreement that if they won I would still get half the money from the pot. (Oh yes, we played for real money, but not very much.) After the play I got a text saying that she won and that my friends had my half of the money for me! Sweet! Although I don't think I'm ready for Vegas yet.
Hamlet is over the ending of a play is always bitter sweet but it is nice to have my evenings back and be able to eat dinner at a normal hour. After the play the cast went out to celebrate at a nightclub where one of the girls worked. She made sure we all got in for free and we had a table reserved and two complimentary bottles of champagne. I could get used to this. I was definitely feeling like a high roller.
During the week I have indulged myself in my some of my usual habits of dating Dublin, such as sitting with a latte and a raspberry tart and attempting to finish Ulysses. Rough, I know. I've also discovered a love for tulips. I think they are my new favourite flower. I saw the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean, which at this point I think the writers have given up. I only saw it for Jonny Depp. Wednesday I had dinner with my friends H. and M. H. has just moved to a new place in a very posh area so she had us over for dinner. It was lovely.
Last night I saw the final Harry Potter film. It is like a chapter of my childhood has closed. I realized that the seven-year-old girl sitting next to me was not even born when the first books came out. I felt some indignation but mostly I felt old. I realize these will probably be one of the films I talk about when I am at the point where I start sentences with "...when I was your age..." Yeah, I don't really like to think about that right now.
I have been continuing my internship with the theatre company and still enjoying it very much. S. is doing a play in the Dublin Absolute Fringe Festival and she has asked me to help her with the lights. I had a meeting yesterday to look at the space. It should be exciting, although I am currently more excited about the Fringe launch party next week which is sponsored by Absolute Vodka-free drinks anyone? Now to find something to wear...
Till next time!
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