Dublin!

I was going to start this blog post with an update on book 2 - I had the first half-sentence written out and everything - but I changed my mind, for two reasons:

a) Not much to report (*hangs head in shame*)

and

b) I'm going to Dublin!!!

As in today.  This afternoon.  Leaving in less than two hours.  Whoop whoop!

I feel horribly unprepared, convinced I must have forgotten something vitally important.  This is probably due to the fact that I only started packing yesterday.  That and the fact that I always feel like this before I go on holiday.  It doesn't matter how many lists I make and how many times I check them, I will always feel like I've missed something.

It is my darling sister that I'm dragging along for this holiday.  I say dragging because it's fairly close to the truth.  Dublin seems to be very much more my kind of place than hers: museums, libraries, bookshops, men with Irish accents... The only thing which seems to have appealed to her about it is the trams.  But I've been hunting out some places for her to go shopping, so we'll take turns at being mind-numbingly bored by the other's activity.

My holiday reading is The Warlord's Legacy by Ari Marmell, another of those books I got for Christmas and haven't got round to reading yet.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it'll be a good'un.

Right, I'm off to go check that I've packed my passport twenty-thousand times.