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by Tommy
Yup, I’m back in Limerick – sitting at the kitchen table and looking out at the Irish weather. It met me off the plane last night too. There was a palpable sense of ‘ooh, plane landed! start raining!’ in the air this morning. My body clock is pretty screwed because I arrived home and went to bed around 07:30, getting up at 14:30. The flight home last night was very smooth. I arrived into the airport, went through security and generally marveled at how different the entire process is when you’re trying to leave – the scrutinization just isn’t there on the homeward journey.
The flight itself was easy. The TV for my assigned seat (and the rest of the row) wasn’t working, so I moved to a different one with the help of the stewardesses and watched Taken, which was very good. Liam Neeson is quite awesome. He’s just made for the cool, badass roles like this and Michael Collins.
We landed at about 05:50 and Mom collected me from the airport and we spent the journey home from Shannon discussing my trip and what was new at home.
I finally wandered into bed around 07:30 and fell asleep soon after, finally waking up about 7 hours later.
It’s good to be home. The teacher’s strike is tomorrow so it’ll be Wednesday before I can settle back into the nice routine of work and school. Days off are nice but are annoyingly unproductive.