Though celebrating the patron saint of Ireland, there’s no denying St. Patrick’s Day has become an international celebration.  Okay, so that’s mainly down to its use as an excuse to get paraletic on Guiness/whisky, but it’s still an admirable feat.

Being a student and surrounded by pubs, it should have been a given that St. Paddy’s day would be spent getting boozed and slurring along to the best of The Pogues in a bad Irish accent.  Sadly, this wasn’t to be.  Pending deadlines and dwindling funds meant the majority of us were stuck at home, able at best to toast dear Patrick with whatever we had in the fridge (in my case, a couple of bottles of Beck’s).

Besides which, as with most celebrations, St. Patrick’s Day isn’t given the gusto it deserves on this side of the pond.  Yet another reason I’d love to live in New York.

Hmm…how does one ad vids to this thing?  It doesn’t seem overly fond of embed coding…