Friday, November 22, 2013

B-vaughan, mid-November












I don't have much to update after last week's trip to Derry. The week has been very quiet and busy. As the semester winds down, I'm realizing how much is left to squeeze into these last two weeks. I'm finishing up three books, painting 4 paintings, drawing 8 charcoal studies, writing essays and trying to fit in time to sleep. Today I didn't go into the studio because I felt like I needed a day alone at home to intensely focus on my most pressing essay and finishing a book on Colonialism. The day was so productive that by 2 o'clock, I'd finished what I needed to finish and had cleaned my room and bathroom. I looked outside and realized that it was sunnier, brighter, and more crisp than it's been in days, so I hurried to put on my shoes and took a lovely long walk until dinner.

Another little thing:
I've been keeping a small list of words that have entered our house-lexicon, now that we've settled into Ballyvaughan living. Things that are commonly heard around our house and town, that make perfect, un-translatable sense to us, that will never be heard or used once we leave. They aren't even inside jokes. Just phrases or word combinations that have been uttered often by several of us, that aren't likely to continue outside of the West of Ireland. I like to have them in a place where I can go back and remember.

Here are a few:

  • "The cows have been sneezing a lot this month"
  • "he spray painted his goat in Clare colours"
  • "The peat won't light"
  • Gaileon
  • forn
  • plowl
  • "she's going to wrap herself in a bubble-wrap cocoon and crawl from SPAR to the community center"
  • "I stepped in the turlough"
  • "The turlough's gone"
  • "The turlough's back"
  • "There's a turlough in the road"
  • "turlough"
  • "I heard the banshee this morning"
  • "I went to the fairy fort for lunch"
  • "see the donkeys"
  • (phonetically) "I've just gotten back from Killin'a'boy"
  • "the cows woke me up"
  • "I think we'll O'Lochlainn later"
  • myeye!
  • cuh-RYE
  • Digestives
  • Hunky Dories
  • "Colcannon again"
  • "it is"
  • "he is"
  • "she is"
  • "they are"
  • "i am"
  • "i was"
  • "the milk's outside"
  • feck
  • tits up
  • awr shih-tz
  • fer foak's saké
  • yer man
  • I'm going to my Laba


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