For whatever reason, I end up sleeping in late today. Perhaps the greyer and cooler weather are to blame? A friend texts me first thing in the morning with a meme about one of the Poolbeg Chimneys toppling over in the middle of the night, but I didn’t fall for the April Fool’s prank.    There aren’t many new job postings on my to-do list, especially since most require...

Today marks six months since I arrived to Dublin on October 1st. Other than this milestone, it’s an uneventful day. The sunshine of the last few days has abated behind grey clouds. However, it’s still relatively warm, and there are more signs of spring’s arrival with leaves finally beginning to unfurl on the trees. I get out in the late afternoon to drop some glass...

It’s another warm spring day, with a slight haze in the air that wasn’t  present yesterday. I get out for a walk in the afternoon after my usual morning routine of going through job postings and studies. There’s a package waiting for me at Mail Boxes Etc., so I do a familiar route heading eastward on Pearse Street to the Docklands, then across the Samuel Beckett Bridge, and...