list-making, an introduction

As the eve of my departure looms closer (less than a week now), I find it appropriate that I should take stock of the various benefits and losses of my decision to head back to Cork.

What I shall (sorely) miss....










The Bay Area, as taken from the Stanford Dish

• my adorable, apple-of-my-eye niece, Hailey
• Bikram Yoga
• my sister Becky
• Sun. And warm weather.
  
• Pearl Iced Tea
  
• fresh [cheap] fruit
• The Daily Show
• Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
  
• Trader Joe's
• milkshakes from Peninsula Creamery
• the availability of salads (mmmm, Pluto's)
• Netflix
  
• All of my friends

What I look forward to....

Cork City on a "cloudless" day

• badminton
• the people from badminton: Joyce, Edel, Lucy, Ann, Philip, Ronan, Enda, Liam, Gary, Ciara, Colm, etc.
  
• The Panel
• Home and Away
• tea, all the time!
• soda bread
• tim tams
• Irish accents (especially de Cork ones, like!)
• not really leaving school
• the availability of cider on tap
• making Euros, not dollars
• the English market

This list is a work in progress, subject to my wanderings and pangs of longing.