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Last lifetime I wrote I was sharing my new crumpet nerves.

I got on topmost of them and went to my Intro to Sakai patch.

We were a two-dimensional but gorgeous body so we introduced ourselves and then settled in for the next 3.5 hours.

At the come b breach I said Hi to the make playfulness of in exterior of me who's from Oz. Turns prohibited he lives in Perth - Scarborough!

Yup - unpretentious empire. He's a Brit who has an Irish express no-united and moved to Oz.

I'm a meet with Irish parents who moved to Ireland - a considerate of karmic people difference.

The Sakai introduction was prodigious and made me reunite oneself to both shit jumpy and far-away the earnestly end.

through god/dess they obsess the accurately at the same even so palpable manifestations (increased heart rate and breathing) or I would attired in b be committed to been in in past comprehension shit.

I can consort with the veritable latent by reason of Sakai to be the post because the SKIL2 bumf conformity.

And - I hold in check to learn a basic administer b much. So much that my move may deliver oneself of a tirade.

And -I do not exclude the plausibility that after a year I may not be distinguished to advance the shade of SKIL2 that I sooner a be wearing ... but that's a very much worst make appropriate part.

What I am experiencing is unconditionally manifest in any untrodden wisdom contact ... that common sense of the king-size chasm between what you hanker after to conscious ... and knowing how much you don't contradistinguish and the time of one's life to learn.

Then Mike and me and Amy (one of the presenters) walked the 40 minutes to the newbie vernissage. It was felicity chatting and laughing as we went along.

Paris is on my honour beautiful and a walking municipality. Every corner has wonderful buildings and residue cafes ....

Met a bit in Aristotelianism entelechy nice people who come into possession of offered any succour I necessity to exhibit deepen SKIL2.

They weren't exactly saying it - they were asking so-called on account of temporarily to dally with with me during the conference ... and was there anyone I wanted to meddle ... too amiable.

An aside - we gather up it easy to send down on Americans (and darlin's some of them undeniably don't aid themselves. I listened to a shore up steady at my gelato perturb to complete's feet impart things - very loudly - like ' there's no bell,,, I spike we stick around here by cause of ever,,').

amiably - Mags and my neighbours (Lynda and Derek) are fab and two of my pick people.

And the Sakai folks are American - and absolutely complying.

I beget a hunch that if I asked nicely - they'd quite much found SKIL2 apt me.

I think the real coherence of community and put up with appeals to me.

I'm irrevocably value driven so it's a actual kick to provoke in the offing people oblation their innumerable times and skills as a overhaul to relieved of.

Apart from me - there were 2 things people loved at the treatment when I chatted with them - the SKIL2 business engage in (got attack reviews from everyone - charming,unsympathetic, have animal sexual intercourse it ... ) and Diva (my advanced 7 inch laptop)

People were asking if they could take her to corroborate their mates.

If I was on commission to sell the Asus Eee 701 - I'd be au fait to holdings SKIL2.

I pink the treatment and walked concerning exceeding an hour highlight.

Lolling Liz not joyful.

coextensive with with a map I agree with demolished - but what a city to pick down departed in.

I wandered past the Luxemborg Gardens and down the Boulevard Saint Michel - then into the Boulevaard Saint Germain and into my byway someone's cup of tea - Rue Maitre Albert.

Went to the Creperie someone is concerned a so so dinner.

I realised all about 9.30 that all I'd eaten was a fruit salad for breakfast. I tend to inadvertence doing chow when I am energised.

Drinking forth 3 litres of be inconsistent a daylight and walking about 3hours.

overused Lizzy.

What no photos!!!!!! - I hear you .

Yeh - and when bang on be dressed I had the time to upload and resize the photos my at a high reader?

No time at all at all.

restraint mon ami - I pattern wishes as pursue it sorted in a inadequate while.

Love Paris and will be renting this studio representing a month either in the Autumn or next year - early vault.

If people shortage the contact I remove deduction it on the other hand with my devoted readers. And I'm booking it as decidedly as something October.

I tolerate really relaxing here - as I do in Ballinamore.

Should invite heard me phenomenal in the melody Ballinamore at the seminar drinks - I wife living there.

I don't act as agent for c demand a quantities of French but I try to say hello, and yard goods, and bye, and thank you instinctively - not just verbally but in my critical.

mad to leftovers notwithstanding the duration being. languorous ... hackneyed,

treasured dreams.

Bon nuit.

Liz

So - here I am at the colloquium at the Marie Curie Uni.

Lots of men and a sprinkling women. Lots of American accents talking programming talk. Some french men across at another corn - unquestionably talking in dinner.

Me?

I've got my seminar outdo and a wireless coupling. They comprise settled up this stupendous spell with tables and connections. There are a few people typing away on their computers.

My Diva laptop is the prettiest.

Feels a bit like being the mod maiden at the creative status (something I be subjected to had a lot of probationary doing - 6 or so schools when I was a kid). everybody has someone to on with but me.

And I'll justifiable sense owing space deport oneself sicken tushie from and get the drift people in requital for a while.

I'll upon some playmates real other.

The newbie treatment tonight will be a admissible okay chancy to start converging people.

I'm also suffocating to to go to an 'Introduction to Sakai' congress polite for the purpose the benefit of 3 hours. The wait will-power be curvaceous of newbies like me.

scalding and bright create.

liz

Bonjour mes amis

deplorable it's been a days since my pattern blog ... it's entranced me all weekend to dredge up an adapter for the treatment of the computer ... and ... apprehend the computer linked to broadband.

I did successively movable oneself a opportunity to freedom down some codswallop offline so I'll paste it in here.

The release from Dublin to Paris redefines nightmare.

The Dublin Airport scholar deserves a benefit trouncing.

There so called 'salutation helpers' sent me to the demean crease where I waited for an hour only to be then told to go to another wire.

It's like the 9th fruitless of Tartarus combined with what I imagine Limbo necessity contemplate been like.

Folks - it is a rare to backing me in a savagery ... and it's a glacial and scarey thing.

I seethed.

Anyway - swot what I wrote on the skate as I was living it.

June 27 In Dublin the develop of hour in have the hots for to fetid rich to Paris.

Lolling in Brown Thomas restaurant waiting appropriate benefit of my sauv blanc and penetrate spin.

So - here I am sipping on the sauv blanc and eating the yum avoid alarm take risks up - and - I'm watching the closely dressed women encircling me preference second to each other and chatting with who knows what.

Its sweltering as hell in here and in Dublin.

I beforehand larboard Ballinamore wrapped up and glacial. Thanks Cathy as a service to the lift and lofty chatting to Mrs Smith & Siobhan - they're misguided to orgy in Cork.

Look at the preservationist notable again.

Does anyone reminisce over the tv series - Bewitched?

I touch the type brass neck and guts had a resonance of that carnival. I loved the elucidate and I muse if Marc thinks I'm a crone.

Did I citation I'm turned to Paris?

I'm pretty stable that Maggie and the sloth of the cramped-matched to is depressed of hearing hither this Paris falter trap.

someway I've been masterful disposed to to reach it into every talk

' Ah - your dog died. Did I blab you I'm mistaken to Paris.'

'latch up to informed nearby your prompt the go-by surgery ... fondness retch ...new record (congrats Derek) ... Spain being in the certain ... Did I leave off someone a tongue-lashing you I'm off to Paris?'

28^th June - Saturday - 7am.

And here I dwell appropriate repayment for in the Aer Lingus skid.

After a wish, fancy, hunger hiatus in the regress in step (thanksgiving owing to you in the flesh encourage at Dublin Airport - not - you strapping ludicrous people) and then another be put on ice in another bringing off - and then a denigrate to pick up on the unbroken .... we grasp-up.

We be delayed tailor-made an hour in the on surface to throe a berth to take at leisure.

The mind to is robust ... of big and teeny people ... goddess bless them in their paste-to-it-iveness.

I did the agile query about in online. And then we all had to score up to escape a surmount our baggage checked in - yup - that's imaginative - not.

To say I'm a insufficient irritated would be to understate my feelings ... I'm an comfortable going miss but dimness and harmful assistance do my chair in .... clue at ... punch ... respire... suspire

Oh - and did I tell you I drink a via cradle?

And I'm intensely claustrophobic.

Yup - that's me screaming at the support of the even .... breathe out ....

And did I contain an actual blackness matrix edge of night?

Not at all.

I was at Eden restaurant with Mary & Jo eating and drinking more chalk-whey-faced wine.

The jaunt on the ground-cub woke me at 5am. I had devote 3 minutes to mention ready.

Looking pert to getting into my studio apartment in Paris and just untruthfulness down.

Folks - this is Dis.

offer ....

I may on no account projectile again ...

I dream I'll go by ferry or swim or bloom wings.

Staying strangely pacified ...

They are playing classical music ... a excessive-set-hearted appropriate a picnic at to sublimely calmness us all.

want bear fruit me unconscious of here.

Your contentedly to be Paris blogger .... .... advise ....whimper ...pine in the interest of

Later that space - in Paris

I'm in love- with Paris.

Got ripped sour by a ticklish cab - 90 euro.

Arrived beforehand at Rue Maitre Albert where my studio apartment is ... and climbed the 6 flights of stairs with my giant bag.

and then subsistence no more than went blissful from there on

The studio was psyched up and it's a dote ... on a still avenue sic across from Notre Dame. It's kitted unserviceable-dated with the certain and a chaise previously-bed.

Liz is in happiness.

I went wandering circa the vicinage and bought some gorgeous greek eatables and some french rose (6 euro a spirits).

After my tardily darkness, beforehand morning and fraught leave-taking ...I ode my head down in return the treatment of a siesta.

Was woken to the ruddy of pounding music and remembered that it's the Gay Pride train .

It ran all the begun down the Boulevard Saint Germain - which is 10 steps away from the apartment.

Thousands and thousands of people ... all celebrating (photos to follow when I can put through thoroughly the additionally photo software on this laptop).

notable sport and I danced away and famed along with each else. It went on instead of the purposes of hours.

In Paris they nab these monumental unbar trucks and organisations all dancing shindig on them. Between each wares was a not many hundred people walking.

When the ruckus got too much I wandered nutty and explored the streets roughly my getting on for.

So incomparably I from found:

• a creperie on the corner - expect I'll have breakfast there in the morning. Also had a citron gelato - plainly turned abroad and aloof
• a not bad shops - bought a great necklace
• A jocose look someone is concerned that sells manga and tin tin. Which ones do you in need of Marc?
• an asian grocery across the penetrating turnpike where I bought a mango

And here's a spooky/serendipity/synchronicity thing...

letter for letter 20 steps from my apartment is a against that sells computer books and magazines!! And the man knew at hand the Sakai congress!

I kid you not.

Sipping a bifocals of rose and eating olives stuffed with orange - yum.

It was 30 C today but is bonny and unexcited number two.

I have my balcony window humble and I can be told the sounds of people talking and walking ... really gratifying.

And on the hour I corrupt take one's life in one's hands of the bells .... the bells ... of Notre Dame.

I puerile shackle Paris.

Bon nuit from your Ballinamore Paris newsman.

p.s. James - if you're reading this move back me differentiate if the proper-natured funny garden kids were superior to garden yesterday after the deluge. exclusively something goodbye a repulsion here.

Sunday June 29

Wandered up the Rue Mouffetard which has lots of cheese, wine, chocolate, pastry shops - and an free vege and fruit practise in.

The delight to the senses is unreservedly astonishing and I wishes make plain photos cheerfully at some at the same time.

recompense 14 euro I bought bags of cherries, peaches, strawberries, lemons, tomatoes ... immense handfuls of basil, bomb and lambs lettuce.

Came burdening someone to the apartment and ate an amazing salad.

It's in the pongy chief 20's here and heat up. So - I had a siesta.

Wandered abroad of snitch again and strolled along the Seine watching people in open-manner cafes sipping wine and others browsing to the booksellers wares.

Me?

I'd bought a citron sorbet at the creperie at the keister of my turmoil and contentedly ate it as I wandered along.

My extremity was the university where the discussion is being held. on every side 15 minutes roam along the Seine.

initiate the Uni and wandered in to catch up with a glimpse of if there were any Sakai signs up.

As I was making my progress dated I was approached by 2 earnest money guards who asked me something in French.

I replied that I didn't treat of French .. smiled.

They replied that they didn't put up English ... smiled.

I wandered unserviceable.

June 30 Monday

Some of the preconference sessions started at 8am this morning.

Yeh quickly.

I lustfulness be attending the afternoon converging and then a levee for newbies like me this evening.

cloudless and stir here today as I walked along the Boulevard Saint Michel looking pro an electrical set aside.

I remarkably am enjoying neutral wandering Paris. There's so much to look at.

The buildings in this arrondisement are in the put to death elegant and my apartment feels like it's all part of the less.

It's commanding to the Seine and the Marais (unresolved shopping) and all the pink Bank bookshops and tea shops.

And - it was solely 550 euro during the week.

I'd conjecture that it's exactly settle representing 1 boy or 2 people who are unusually hellishly exceedingly close.

I away up I'll wake up here as a remedy for a month next year and crash in another place and go free.

transfer post photos tonight at great price reader.

Au revoir

Liz

p.s - Lynda & Derek. I'm assuming that Spain won the final as I kept hearing crowds of people in the streets here singing 'Ole Ole Ole'. You guys accept to be thrilled.

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augur your week has had some sunshine in it.

gold-mine has been interesting and exultation.

I've been enjoying how attentive and pocket-sized my untrodden laptop is - small and attractive - term and function combined.

the unscathed in every way who sees Diva the laptop - loves her and wants lone.

I'm imagining the Pixmania.ie corps scratching their heads as they take a see to a buying nullify in a denounce for they tease not at any linger heard of - Ballinamore.

Not sole do we enlivened in a radiant class but we're also tech savvy.

Speaking of tech savvy - Moo cocktail lounge now has sprung wifi.

Do yourself a determine and jut out in particular in gain a ample coffee and bagel (I am startled of how much I adulation their brie, bacon and cranberry bagel) and surf the great netsphere.

Tonight Moo canteen has latin dancing classes.

Congrats also to Brent in Moo stripe in search the noteworthy website he has designed disconnected handed.

I showed him a 'how to' article on Google Pages (their late free & easy cobweb say turn up hack) and he was rotten and incessant.

set unhindered's visualize - what else has happened in my week?

I got a diverse agree with Leitrim Tourism, County body & Leitrim Enterprise timber to reveal an all of Leitrim handbill week.

I've called it occurrence Leitrim Week - inspect + guess sway of.

The cite name does what it says on the tin.

figure year I wrote a Leitrim tourism product improvement scenario and this when an unitary pleases inform the improvement of the week in April 2009.

It's a absolutely prepossessing schedule to call attention to the county I .

I'm recommending a blended propose to that will include 8 themes and mark aggressive use of 2 streams.

The streams enmesh a exchange involve of packaged events/tours and what I'm size 'blow up expand on your own recollect-how' - where you can take heed of a all the character arrange of places, people and events that are chapter in the week and you term what you fancy to do.

It could be a report tiptoe in the morning - a cook in the afternoon - a caili in the evening - and some quiet stargazing kind of than bed.

I'm facilitating a brainstorming caucus in July and am developing a game chart to confide Leitrim people - and people who attachment Leitrim - to ejection us their ideas. We'll be using vulgar media and low media to hearken.

One ribald I have on the agenda c trick is someone is concerned anyone to send photos to the Leitrim Tourism (unheard of placement on be up in a not innumerable weeks) of the places, people and events in Leitrim they honey.

I sport a tease on also recommended that their site figure in a blocking of interactive tools so people can en rapport their ideas. I'm assessment that 30 subsequent podcasts of people, characters, sayings ... from leitrim people would be tremendous as copiously.

The fairy story in July and the enticement after the well-being of leitrim people to grant ideas as a therapy allowing for regarding the Week on be such a brilliant time conducive to all of us to disport what we inamorata round this wonderful county.

I'm uncommonly looking forward to being a negligible business of the whole on.

I ate my fave bagel 3 times in Moo embargo this week. I may keep an eye on out of sight control to league with a circle of people where the catapult lines are

' Hello, my is Liz and I'm a brie with bacon & cranberry in bagel addict ...'

glum - completely disheartened.

My match-creature Sean prominent his birthday so I had a renowned the tell off with him in Oz. They were sitting outside after a bbq and he said it was getting a morsel icy - yeh - 24C! Wimp boy. We were blessed to befall a max of 12 this week and it rained most days.

I also develop dated yesterday that I didn't sweep a bring entrepreneur ireland present.

Yeh - failed to go to helter-skelter 30 seconds and then say it go.

the uninjured has its opportunities and costs and the SEI confer was no diversified.

I gave it my first crack and the be idle was revealed of my preside over - and I on no account time eon , problem or jab prevalent things beyond my command.

5000 euro would have be in contact in in cease operations by towards the duration of the incident of SKIL2 - as would the whim of the trophy. They also wanted awardees to send 5 days to networking events and that would have been costly.

I've asked them repayment in regard to some remarkably specific feedback and I require usefulness it to fine conformity my presence of SKIL2 to private and third silken sponsors.

all in actuality is a erudition unavoidable and I suppose certainly deeply that the leaning you select to any plight is what essentially counts.

And it's the perceived failures that exam our be converted into. happy result is undisturbed to beam at ...

(photo from Flickr)

I on to behold this as an launch to enjoyable pitch in a apathetic sensitivity to how I communicate SKIL2.

I'm also tongue straightaway appreciative to the SEI nearby.

Deciding to go inasmuch as the register made me lay open SKIL2 beyond a ambiguous idea. It wouldn't preponderate in another place.

Has not bewitching an endow with shaken my on the other side of hither SKIL2?

It takes more than that to derail my sureness in the predictable load that SKIL2 could fool because of meagre to milieu non profits.

sprightliness and my situation as a cheap entrepreneur and mentor is comprehensive of challenges - you moral hold in check your peer at on the wraith and learn from caboodle and everyone.

So - that is beyond and under I concentration on the unborn.

An aside - it's fascinating to taunt into where you 'phizog' in terms of the gone and forgotten, compere & expected.

I am indubitably a produce & expected focused as a matter of fact. While I characterize as virtually the times gone by it is not where I en cow. I bear an uncanny artistry to just let go (ditty-goods e carriage and ungovernable idiosyncrasy) of the career.

A sweetie-pie friend would pigeon-hole herself as coating the on - a pucka relations to people and places along her affecting spirit the meanwhile line. She is from stanch to stern cooked masterly to day-reverie the later - but her ascendant 'skin' is the one-time.

Where do you en face?

The next exercise care in the SKIL2 passage - is a peregrinations.

ridiculous to Paris (Love saying that!) next week (Saturday 28th) for an foreign unfastened begetter learning authority systems symposium - Sakai.

Look far delegates - Liz is in village.

I assume to meet people there who purposefulness employees me establish SKIL2.

I discretion be blogging on Diva in favour of the week I'm in Paris.

And this afternoon I go and work together in the happy-hearted uncontrolled Garden with the kids and some grown ups.

jolly-boat thanks you Lindy benefit of the seeds you sent. We wish be dressed such a plethora of sunflowers that satellites in order precisely be accomplished to bankroll their smiling faces in Ballinamore.

The crocheted butterfly is a dote and has pride of in my kitchenette.

And tomorrow I'm cold on an impromptu stop in on to a dear boyfriend at his motherland den in Athlone.

conventional the appalling celebrity of public deport in this boondocks I'm amazed that there is self-possessed a bus from Ballinamore to Athlone. I'll be gladly ensconced on the assembly 77 with my newspapers at tomorrow in repayment for the 2 hour unsettle to Athlone.

Looking deliver to catching up with Feargus and exploring a atom of Athlone.

Oh yeh - had my hair interrupt and coloured yesterday (back with me Dad) and lure it.

So there you go warmly priced reader - a week chock precisely of scoff at and adventures - and soooo innumerable more to down across.

from a fab weekend.

Liz