Election Posters and Espionage

I dont want to make this blog a politic-based one, but I have to give a mention to the sight that met my eyes as I drove into Kilcock this morning. A mere day after former (better late than never I suppose) Taoiseach Cowen announced that the election will be on the 25th of this month, and the lamposts are completely covered in posters! The first one I saw this mornin belonged to the Independants..... hmmmm...... well I suppose you gotta give them the credit for enthusiasm. What i dont understand though, is how sticking an oversized poster of yourself in an equally silly lookin suit on a lampost is meant to help you get votes. I mean there isnt a hint at their election "promises", or what they will do for the country (bar pass brown envelopes around that is) Do they think that we vote for people on how good their roots look?  .............. Just on an end note, are those not a bit of a driving hazard? I wonder if you crashed your car could you sue Aine Brady cause you were looking at her poster.....

Anyway, onto slightly more interesting things, I started back college on Monday after the xmas break and January exams. Results arent out until the 14th, so I wont say anything about them, but looking back I am afraid to even hope I did well. But anyhoo I began my new modules, and I must say, bar my core history module, Im a happy bunny. One of the English modules deals with Feminism Literature, and although I wouldnt call myself a feminist, its interesting. Sociological and consequential political history always interested me anyway, but I am reading Virginia Woolf "A Room Of Ones Own" at the moment, and although it takes a while to really get what she is on about, its good. I recommend it to anyone who likes a bit of heavy philosophical reading. On a side note, the lecturer is a man, which I find slightly strange. Thought it would be a typical woman fighting tooth and nail for "equality".

Also, in a strange twist of fate and unexpected change of timetable for the English course, I was forced to choose a new History module, as the International Relations module I chose in September (which involved a ridiculously slow computer in an internet cafe in Paris and A LOT of stress) clashed with my English timetable. So I was sort of landed with Intelligence, Espionage and State Diplomacy in the years 1648 to 1720. Its pretty much a big discussion on the spies and general mysterious gentry of the age, based sometimes on fact, and sometimes on maybe facts..... Anyway its kinda fun, and should turn out some pretty interesting stories for here :-)