Dublin is amazing.  The sights, the people, the conversations.
Basically, the agenda for most days is go to work/talk talk talk/go to a pub, drink/talk talk talk/take bus home/talk talk talk/go to sleep.  check e-mail repeat.
Went to The Brazen Head and got to hear Irish storytelling and Irish music.  Wow, I hope the fairies don't get me!  After listening to the stories, I found interesting parallels between the Irish and the Jewish identities.  They both can be associated with the Diaspora movement.  They were both kind of neglected and discriminated against and thus were forced to emigrate to the States, and that being the reason they are found all over the world today.  And the people in Ireland, not all are pure Irish anyways!  And stories are often passed down via oral tradition, in a similar fashion to most cultures out there, and of course the same KINDS of stories are being told, because they are after all, timeless.  What I appreciated the most was the fact the the Irish, like the Jewish heavily depend on music as a way to express their deep culture.  Music has influenced, shaped, ripped apart my life in so many ways, and to be able to study and live and experience a culture that is foreign to me, but realize the many similarities between cultures that I am already familiar with, you realize, the world really isn't that different.  Like here at berkeley, we encourage diversity and say ohh the university is so diverse and people are very tolerant, but here's another way of looking at it.  People are people.  There are no differences amongst them, race, religion, upbringing.  We are not that diverse.  We are probably more similar than different anyways!

The food is amazing.  It's not so much special, but stuff here tastes different!  Ie. the lettuce, the ketchup, the mayo, even orange marmalade!  Cool stuff, dublin. I don't want to leave.  And time to plan for weekend adventures, yesssss