Today I spent much of the day trying to do things you can only do in Photoshop in Illustrator, and trying to doing things you can only do in Illustrator in Photoshop. All because I bravely volunteered to design the poster for the choir tour of Europe later this year. As well as lots of places in Germany, we should be going to Copenhagen (hopefully), Amsterdam and Austria. After the tour I’ll somehow attempt to stay alive another week in Ireland. Every time I go to Europe (don’t worry, it doesn’t happen very often, I’m just old now), I mean to go to Ireland. This time I’m actually going. I’m about to look up Shannon Airport on the internet and find out exactly how far away it is from anything of interest. Such as a bus stop. I won’t be like the guy who met my band in Frankfurt last year... at least he flew to an airport called Frankfurt. In fact it was an airport with 100km of Frankfurt that had applied to whoever’s in charge to be able to call itself Frankfurt Hahn. It was only a two hour drive there and a two hour drive back.

If I fly into Shannon Airport, however, I will know exactly how to get out of there without getting anyone to drive me for two hours. It’s in County Claire, which is supposed to be beautiful. Then to see my friend wherever she is now and hang out in Dublin, only four months late for the Bloomsday centenary celebrations.

Eden is in the choir too. We had breakfast this morning, and she said “You should come to my [librarian] class- there’s going to be a real live cataloguer speaking today”. I couldn’t fabricate a convincing excuse, so along I went. These days, most libraries buy their cataloguing information from their national library or the Library of Congress. Someone still has to catalogue unique items, though. This guy had spent his entire career in libraries...

Unfortunately, his method of delivery had big pauses after each sentence.

Like this.

As if to give you time to absorb the information.

Whereas I had already absorbed it, and was waiting for the next sentence.

Which sounded like it was going to be consequential.

But often wasn’t.

This tested my resolve to listen to what lecturers say, not how they say it. I think content is more important than form, unless the form limits how much content can actually be delivered.

In other news, I changed the shower curtain, guessing that the recyclers probably weren’t interested in an old, slightly slimy vinyl shower curtain.

Marion emailed me yesterday. We’re both going to the same party tomorrow. I have despaired of finding a time for a date when we’re both free, so maybe something can happen from this.

Who knows?

Here’s an interesting entry I’ve been reading by .

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