We're going to have a table quiz at work in April to raise money for Pieta House (an Irish centre for suicide prevention); the current problem is figuring out whether Thursday 28th or Friday 29th is best. Friday leads into a bank holiday, so a lot of people will have plans, but Thursday is the day before payday (of a five-week month, too), so a lot of people will be skint.

It's all for a trip I'm taking around Ireland this summer - in May I'll be embarking on a 2,000 kilometre journey around the island in an attempt to get the Guinness world record for longest barefoot journey. I've spent tons on equipment already - a backpack, a super-light tent, a GPS device, and with just one month to go it's getting increasingly real and I can't wait to go. It's a lot of different things, for me; for one, it's the first time I've really stepped out of my comfort zone and decided to do something really cool instead of worrying about the future.

Perhaps it's even reckless - I have no idea what I'll do come August. Stay in Dublin and go back to work at the school? Move home to Mayo for a while and maybe get a job in a pub or something? Just finally leave and start seeing the world, like I thought I would when I was young? It's all scary and exciting. I just know that where I am I'm not really moving forward snd I don't know where to go, but surely stepping in any direction is better than staying still - especially since I can always turn back.

Otherwise life is okay. Work, eat, jog, procrastinate, drink at the weekend. Things could be better, things could be worse; to a certain extent I'm just waiting to get going.