ok, the desk has returned to it's normal state of chaos

it was only a matter of time, really. the scary part is that I really can find whatever I might happen to be looking for. most of the time.
so, I had a football match today out in castlebar, which is in county mayo. I wasn't going to go because I'm a bit congested and supposedly had class at the time when we were meeting at the quad, but as it turned out it's a good thing I showed up because tricia, our regular goalie, had an asthma attack last night and wasn't able to make it. so kate made her debut as starting goalie, against a team that only had 12 people (there's normally 15) and weren't so great anyways. but we beat them about 4-15 to 1-3 (that means that we had 4 goals, each worth 3 points, and 15 points from kicking it through the uprights; they only had 1 goal and 3 points). so, basically, we slaughtered them. and I think that a lot of the points they did get were from people from our team who were playing for them. they only scored one goal on me, and that was kind of the result of a break down in the defense which left number 8 wiiiide open right in front of me. besides that I did have a couple saves (yey!) and some good kick outs, some of which were into the wind. the weather was, in fact, the highlight of the match. if it hit 40 degrees, I would be astounded. and there was constant rain. and a pretty strong wind, which was right into my face for the whole first half. I thought that I was going to get frostbite. but I survived, we won, and I rode the whole way home with my feet on the little heater in the bus.
I got back to school where supreme court justice antonin scalia was speaking, and I undoubtedly should have gone, but ireland was playing portugal and I was hungry and there was already a huge queue about 45 minutes before the thing was even supposed to start... so I went home, to find that there is NOTHING on tv, at least not until 11, when there's going to be a new (for here) episode of desperate housewives. so, rather than rotting my brain out in front of the telly, I'm rotting my brain out in front of the computer! not really, I'm actually trying to write part of my paper on welsh castles, which isn't due until mid-april (!!!!). and, of course, updating my blog so that all those who follow the 'thoughts of a wandering kate' (and if you had seen castlebar, boy would you believe the wandering bit) might be mildly entertained. that's all I got. back to welsh castles.