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Emerging from COVID quarantine on the hottest day of the year

Last Monday, I woke up feeling crappy with a headache and the start of a cough. I did a self-administered COVID antigen test that came back with a faint ”T” line, which was enough to indicate a positive result. At this point, I’m one of the few people I knew that hadn’t had COVID yet (at least to my knowledge), so I guess my number was finally up. There has been another wave of infections in the...

Photos from Dublin Pride last weekend

This will be an short post mostly to share some photos from Dublin Pride last weekend. Dublin Pride is the second biggest festival in Ireland after St. Patrick’s Day, and the last officially organised Pride weekend was two years ago in 2019 due to COVID. My friend S. arrived into Dublin by train early Friday evening, then we met up with my friend CJ and a friend of S’s to go to an...

Muggy weather, social life highlights, eve of Dublin Pride

It’s been a warm but somewhat grey June in Dublin. Today has been one of the warmer days, with highs in the low 70s F / low 20s C, and humid – but nothing like the heatwaves that continental Europe or the U.S. have been having recently. There is no denying summer is here, now that we’re past the solstice. The sun doesn’t set until around 10:00pm these days. A well-timed photo...