October 2010
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Home!
This week I’m home in Ireland and It feels really nice to be home! I’ve had a crazy few weeks and so it’s nice to finally just relax away from all of that craziness. I’ve been having home cooking and enjoying the fresh air more than ever! Home is where the heart is!
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Relief and Excitement
I’ve just finished my first essay for uni tonight and I’m so glad I’ve got that out of the way. I can now relax and begin preparing to go home to Ireland next week! I’m so excited I’ll get to go for a little bit as I haven’t been back since I’ve been here. It will be so nice to see my family and friends again and eat some home cooked dinners! I’m...
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Academia
Tonight, I’ve spent writing a 10 hour long essay with no avail. Doesn’t that suck? On the bright side I have made a lot of great notes, read a lot of great synopsis’ of plays and monologues, chosen my monologue and stayed awake until 4am! I have also come to the conclusion to read the Eat Pray Love book by Elizabeth Gilbert. I’ve ordered a tonne of books. I’ve also...
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Volunteering?
So here’s something I’d like to talk about, I’ve always been interesting in volunteering but somehow, haven’t got around to it. I’m not sure why but the thought just refresed in my mind last night and I had a power thought to teach drama as a volunteer abroad. I thought, what a good idea and when I googled it I got lots of results of course. I was on a high, I thought...
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My wonderful day
Oh, this morning I did not want to get out of bed.
I had my first assessment interview at my school today. As I’ve just began my training at the London School of Film, Media & Performance for Acting. I got some much needed feedback, which has brightened up my day.
I then went on to the National Theatre to see a production of Danton’s Death by Georg Büchner. The play is set during...
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The here and now
I miss simplicity. lately I’ve been so stressed out, sick and rushed around. Hopefully in two weeks I get to go back home to Ireland and relax for a week. My college has been quite intense lately. I’d like to go to the cinema tonight but there is nothing on other than eat pray love which I’ve been to see twice already! so I’m probably going to spend the night in, alone!...
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Sleepless
I’ve been sick for the past few days and its 5am and I cannot sleep its awful. I’ve been drinking green tea all night and even had this night medicine which is supposed to help you sleep. It doesn’t seem to work so well! I am awaiting my friend coming who is arriving here tomorrow morning, it’ll be the first time I’ve seen a familiar face in a month so it will be nice...
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I'm back
So, It’s been a month since I’ve been on here in that time I’ve moved country, started college, moved into a new apartment and have been meeting a lot of new people and finding my way in this crazy city. It’s been a crazy month to say the least. I’m now resting as I am dying with a flu that was bound to happen sooner or later! Hopefully I should be feeling better...
September 2010
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I want to know how it feels.
Sometimes life just feels like a spin. I’m making decisions here and I don’t know why really. I’m sure it’s nothing abnormal but it just doesn’t feel right. I wish I didn’t have to make decisions to be honest. I just want things to fall into place sometimes, They had before, Almost.
If I’m honest to myself I hate London yet I’ve made a decision in...
August 2010
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Currently Reading..
I’ve just been reading a book by Kelly Cutrone called If you have to cry, go outside. I love Kelly Cutrone’s character and charisma. She’s a godsend to this time to empower young people amongst a sea of clowns and dimwits influencing the youth of today. I am speaking as a 19 year old here.
The entire book is full of positive and powerful anecdotes from a young woman’s...
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My weekend: Photoshop & Vodka
This weekend I did two things, The first I’m more proud of than the other. I learned how to apply textures to images on Photoshop! I’m not the best at Photoshop, But! I am getting better, I’m really self taught at it. That and photography itself. I love doing anything creative and so I was drawn into it. Photography isn’t my first love though and not my main focus either....
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Goodnight
I’m ridiculously sick yet I’m awake until 04.15am in the morning.
I did get a lot done though, lots of photos processed, writing my play and finding a web host for my friend and in between finding this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
Enjoy!
Gavin
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“I love myself too much to feel hate”
– Gavin Keenan
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A day in bed
HELLO!
So today I’m spending the day in bed writing my play. It’s early stages of ideas but it’s coming along nicely. It’s my third day to be sick but I got to talk to my best friend today and it really lifted my spirit. It’s great to have friends who believe in each other and want the best for each other! It’s truly hard to find and I’m very...
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London, now and then..
Last week took me back to London. London is a city I’ve lived in I’ve loved and I have hated. My first impressions of London was, I loved it. I felt it was my city, the place to be and I felt enthralled, fired up and ready to live this life that I felt I always wanted.
However, when I eventually moved there I saw things a little differently to say the least. My impressions changed...
Trying...
I am really trying to write, but its a problem right now, mainly because I’m trying to write a play! I just got back from London with lots to write about from there, by the way I’m posting from my blackberry for the first time, its quite cool, give me time to get back into the lingo..
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“I don’t rate professionalism by years or experience, I rate it by spirit.”
– Gavin Keenan
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Crazyyy
The past two days have been crazy dramatic, but I’ve worked through it. Now I’m just ready to chill and write my play! When I get into work mode I am too focused, too particular and crazy, I haven’t even eaten in the past two days with the exception of a banana, chocolate and a mcdonald’s meal! Being a perfectionist isn’t always a good thing! The way things are going...
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lets be real..
I’ve been posting lots of self-help type things, Guess it’s just how I’m feeling right now. Just to let you know I’m not a self help guru, I’m just someone who is living life and I guess with that comes learning life’s lessons. I feel grateful for that and so I’m sharing it. I have come from nowhere really, learning things quickly I started my life really...
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Love yourself
So, I was always aware that you must love yourself before anyone else will and loving ourselves in order to succeed but I guess I never focused on it. Guess what! big mistake. It’s vital for us to start with ourselves and I’m talking inside. When you say work on yourself I guess a lot of people could misinterpret it as get your hair done, fixing your skin and all of the other extremes...
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Writing a play!
So I have started working on a new play, I am co-writing with my amazing friend Katie. We both love to write and we are actors ourselves too so it will be a great collaboration. I guess our aim is to write an amazing play and produce it some day in the near future. It’s something we have both attempted before separately and we realised through a skype chat that maybe it would work if we came...
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My London
I see moving back to London as a temporary thing. The city for me, is a cold one. If it’s loneliness your after, you’ll find it here. People walk in London in parallel lines unaware of the people around them. I guess running from one place to the next trying to make ends meet and when I say place it’s most likely their work or their bed. I’m speaking from my experience of...
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Searching
So next week I’m going back to London in search of a new apartment and new roommates. I really dislike house hunting and although only being 19, I’ve had enough experience to last me a lifetime. This will be the fifth time I will be looking for an apartment, or room to be exact. So the search is on, I guess the hardest part will be finding the right people who to live with. I really...
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Originality
You could do what everyone else is doing, easy. It seems thats what most people do and they do it happily.
I think life will always be like that, it’s a natural thing for us to be sheep, for us to be always following the pack, looking for a leader, looking for someone to guide us, but why?
You could take an example of God. Maybe, we don’t necessarily know who that isbut we have such...
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Let me go, Let me go
Some days lack thoughts, It has been one of those days.
I haven’t done a lot today but I did learn something. I was looking around on the internet and noticed how there is a large Irish community in Kilburn, London. There is even a film called County Kilburn. I think that’s quite funny. It’s strange how I’ve lived in London for 7 months and never knew that. As I’m...
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What are we so afraid of?
I feel happy to say, I am on my way to success. I am at the point of mending my past to shape my future. I think it’s quite important and I’m glad I can document it. It’s important to realise that each one of us are given a life and be so grateful that we have the choice to do whatever we wish to do with it. It’s a freedom that some people don’t appreciate because I...
“Mark my words, I will not lose.”
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I can't see you from down there
There are two types of people. Those who choose to live and those who choose to watch others live, usually the people living take chances, risks and ultimately will make mistakes from time to time, but isn’t it worth making a mistake to learn something from it and taking you to a different part of your life and being that you would never have experienced before? As for the people who are not...
I admit, I'm scared
I grew up in a small town in Ireland and when I was 17 I moved to my nearest city, Dublin. Being of that age I saw everything as big, new, exciting and amazing but for me feelings like that about one particular thing have an expiration, and so it did, I moved on quickly and found myself living in London and guess what I got over that as well. It’s funny to think a boy from a small town in...
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Good things
I have dedicated time out of every day to be good to myself, I went to the gym today and yesterday, I have been learning monologues the past few days and filling my head with positive thoughts in every minute I can! I’ve been eating well and as a reward to myself I ordered a new blackberry! Every now and then you have to be good to yourself!
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Cry
Music can bring back feelings, memories that otherwise you probably could never think of. It can make you cry and sometimes that’s one of the best feelings. I cried a lot this weekend, I’m glad. Ive been a stone over the past year working as machine in a number of jobs for minimum wage neglecting myself and my own life, living to make other people happy. I’m done doing that, now...
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Above all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XygesMeMM8Y
A song that reflects a feeling I’ve been carrying the past few days. I wish I could put it down but feelings aren’t that easy.
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staring you in the face?
Sometimes Love can be the most amazing feeling, a great wonderful thing that is truly hard to find however Love isn’t always the answer to all problems and doesn’t mean nothing else matters. Love doesn’t always mean it’s going to bring you the friend you want, the family you want or the relationship. It can make you feel so high, so loved, and sometimes you wan’t to...
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Secret Language of Birthdays
So! There is this great book by Gary Goldschneider called the Secret language of Birthdays! It has every Birthday listed with a description! I’m so happy I got mine! Here it is!!
April 23rd -
Day of Adopted Security. Same birthday as William Shakespeare. You’re looking for the best place to bring out your skills/talents.. but not necessarily to work there. It’s more like a way...