yarg

today is not going so well...my lexo project got finished but crummily because one of the books I needed was nonexistent

i went to a library that was closed

a library that didn't have the book they were supposed to have

and the school library

i also ran into my supah lit prof and was enlightened to the fact that the prix goncourt dealio (conventiently worth 25% of my grade for the entire three part class) is due a week from tomorrow *the crying*

can i give up now?

i seriously thought i had like a month at least to finish that

and now i have a week

it's gonna be sheer luck or lack of any sort of sleep if i get the stuff i still have to do for tomorrow done tonite...

ugh ugh ugh

today WAS well planned but it kinda died...

tomorrow is going to be excessively long

i'm tiiiiiiirrrrred...

have to keep working tho...

maybe this weekend i will get up to something interesting

today

so emily and i are going to rufus :D this time it will be with his band too XD i can't wait

hmm so i did some homework and stuff...blah blah

oh i got pasta with spinach and cheese and for some reason i thought it would have REAL FRESH ingredients lol but no...it was a funny little green paste wrapped in the noodles...ah well tho it wasn't so bad

also...i thought i didn't like nectarines but i couldn't remember why i thought it so i bought a couple cuz they were out of bananas...and now i remember lol

ALSO i tried to buy a mars bar but the machine gave me snickers...lol

which was tasty but unexpected

and as stated in my previous comment...emily has peeps!!!!

lalala...

OMIGOSH i found a sandwich with ham AND cheese AND vegies/egg...that is AMAZING...usually you only find a combo of one or two of those things...but this sandwich had it all...it was sooooo good i nearly cried...altho it was more expensive lol

and so today i actually took one of those free newspapers they are always trying to push on you at the metro exits and there was a feature on japanese culture in paris!!! so i have addresses for stores and culture centers and even a manga cafe where you pay by the hour to chill with ze comics...it's cheaper than buying them ne

HOW COOL XD

now i just need some free time...*wanders off to write a paper...or two*

surfing

It's really interesting to take a look at other people's blogs. There are people from EVERYWHERE on here and lots of them are lucky ducks with digicams so they post crazy stuff. The world is HUGE!!!!!! o_o

Other than that not much to report. I watched some TV last night jugglers and magicians, also the human paperdoll. While there were no commercial breaks, they had celebs plugging their stuff in between every act so...it was exACTly like commercials.

Gotsa finish my net packet for lit class...

oh yeah and HAPPY B-DAY EVA cuz I bet I'm the first one...it's only quarter to three in the morning there ;p

ugh i have too much work

I got a couple writing assignments done today...trying to get the measly crud out of the way first...but even those take time...

Too much time >_<

Lunch Club was fun. I was the only one who knew about the time change so I ended up getting Chris out of bed. Renée and her boyfriend missed his flight this morning o_o but luckily they figured out a way to get him where he was going. I guess it's a common problem. The airport people probably say the day before, "yeah tomorrow is gonna bite cuz the time changes tonite and we're gonna have to deal with all the dopes who forget...*sigh*" this must just be part of the job stress related to airline work. Of course the only reason I knew about it was cuz Steve told me lol

Anyhow for lunch we had pasta with this yummy sauce with mushrooms and salmon in it. I even at the mushrooms.

Amy brought some hardcore desert. Chocolate pastry with marshmallow stuff and also a cream puff sort of pastry only shaped like a duck or something. Hmm...they were tasty. We all got to split them up and try both. Except Chris doesn't like chocolate so he had a duck.

DUCK

You know I miss my trumpet...and my sax to but really my trumpet. I should pick it back up again when I go home.

This afternoon I borrowed Datif's broom and swept my floor. It was disgusting lol. These rooms really collect dust.

Tomorrow I will have to get more work done. Lunch was pleasant today but it lasted far too long. I didn't get home until quarter after 5 or something.

So this case of the brain damaged woman being starved to death in the news all over is somewhat distressing. I did notice that some people from UWM were commenting on it though, that is interesting. But no, I mean if what they are going to do is let kill her why does it have to be in such a horrible way, esp when no one can seem to agree on weather starving to death is an ok way to go or whether she feels things or not. I guess it's that no national euthanasia policy thing...but it's really alarming nonetheless. I mean it seems to me that if the end result is death, the quickest and most painless route should be taken. Issues like this are very interesting to debate but it would better if there weren't real-world applications for some of them because no one will ever agree and sometimes even individuals aren't sure themselves.

One thing I am excited about doing when I get home is reading. I also think that translations are nice...even tho if you can read in the original it's better.

I also think...

that this is gonna be another one of those long evil weeks.

But hopefully I will not be depressed this time.

Getting a move on

Ah yes. This morning it is Easter and it is also the day Euro-folk lose their hour of spring sleep in favor of less darkness...or something like that. Yes I'm 8 hours ahead of Wisconsin until you crubazuberies spring forward next week.

Not like it matters.

Just an interesting thing.

This is really just a quick note because LUNCH CLUB is today and I have to do some dishes and accomplish some things before I leave!!! Like a shower!!! Anyhow I hope that Chris' directions are good enough cuz I cannot take going out and not being able to get into the place again!! (Like two weeks ago!!)

Time is FLYIN'

Speaking of which o wow I have some MICEFA paperwork to turn in...I had better get that done this week as well.

This week is THE week. The week I will either catch up or die!!!

Give me punctuality or give me death!

I'm already behind on my morning schedule!!! O WOE!

a pretty saturday

Hmm it's nice out. Datif came home this morning for a bit so I met his dog and lent him some bread. I wonder if the MCJP is open today cuz that was what I was going to do. Really I should go to the park tho lol. It's so nice :D I hope Monday is this nice so we can all s'amuser bien.

Did I already talk about the anime version of Little Women? They play it on 5 on Saturdays. It's cute but dubbed. Hmm I can watch TV from Algeria.

lol

happy easter er-head ;p

and everyone else too

tra di la hoo haa

SO then...

i had a greek sandwich for dinner and it was TASTY XD

and i'm hanging out in Datif's room cuz he lent it to me FOR THE WEEKEND XD

yes!!!

altho the tv is too clever for me...there must be a trick to it lol

kinda like my old one HA HA HA

so let's see...yesteday was supah rainy and somewhat lousy. I got all cute and then got soaked so I had to go home and try to make do. I also had to stand during the movie for class...cuz I'm short lol (but not as short as 130 cm)

can someone convert 5'4" into centimeters for me? this calls for some participation!! my blog is a TWO WAY STREET LOL like English class

or French class for that matter

so last night I saw Be Cool WHICH i have to admit I was not really that interested in seeing but it turned out VERY funny and VERY (appropriately) cool. We laughed the whole time. It was also sort of campy in a way that I appreciated. cuz who can't appreciate some camp?

you know Dan was telling me that "camp" refers to gay culture but i've never heard it used that way...i only know the one for crazy old horror movies hehehe altho that is more broadly applicable. See according to Dan Celine Dion is campy. (Is that how you spell her name?)

group participation everyone!!!

let us discuss what certainly merits discussion

so then after the movie we went out for Indian food which was SUPER and Greg told me he went backpacking in India for two months. I think that is extremely awesome. So anyhow he's really into Indian food and we ate curry and it was reallllly good. I had chicken and egg...which...I never thought of putting egg in...but it was rerooster WHICH lol it finally dawned on me the other day that re doesn't really resemble ri in anyway except phonetically but we're going to leave it cuz rirooster looks funny.

That's what I have to say!!!! V_V

lol

Anyhow so that was great and this restaurant REALLY wanted us to eat there so they gave us free bread and we also got a free rosy colored aperitif.

And then I forgot my bag cuz I'm a dork lol

but luckily I remembered beFORE i got on the train so i said by to greg and was sitting there and then RAN back to the restaurant where some lady was interrupted by me with my silly French "excusez-moi, j'ai oublié mon sac" hey at least i said mon and not ma lol i said "un soeur" the other day...lol that is just CALAMITY

caaaaaLAMity

anyhow...

so today was a better day...very sunshiny and warm. there were some protestors but i didn't understand what they were shouting. i went to class in the morning and my lit profs are just the greatest. They deserve medals or something. They make me feel like I might actually be able to catch up, which is nice. In the afternoon I had another class and that went ok except HOLY CRUD BUCKETS do those French kids know how to ignore their teachers. I felt SO BAD FOR HIM. These poor guys...I think they are TAs. Well really it's just the one...for some reason my other class listens...but this ONE guy they just all must hate him or something. He's up there expounding and writing and explaining things that seem to me, from the snatches I get between not being fluent and the people practically shouting behind me, to be very interesting and NO ONE is listening except for like three people in the very front. I will be up there next week cuz I need to hear what he is talking about!!!!

And then TO MY GREAT SURPRISE I found Datif AT HOME. I'm like 3 for 30 or something lol. The average is very bad. Anyhow he was on his way out for the weekend and now I have his keys.

OH MAN the weirdest thing: I have realized that I now really like fries. I never used to care about them and now I find myself thinking "hmm i could really use some fries" That is SO STRANGE. Beyond beyond.

Well I may be forgetting something but the great thing about it is that I can always tell you TOMORROW or the NEXT DAY for FREE.

BWAH HAHAHAHAHAH!!! XD

lol

I'm a geek. ^_^

a dishearteningly tiny victory

Well aside from my hopes being crushed to bits that I could go ONE day without being depressed, this is what happened this afternoon:

I went home and read like a banshee after having a snack.

and read

and read

and read

all the rest of that messed up book (see entry title)

it really is messed up...all the characters are evil and weak

anyhow...

then i had dinner with too much cheese on top

going out tomorrow will be a nice change of pace from the pesto. as much as i love pesto it probably isn't a good idea to have it ALL week LONG

then i went on a walk and ended up in the metro on my way here...

dude tho i'm now scared of parisian gutters cuz i've seen two guys in the past week just peeing nonchalantly from the sidewalk...i wonder if that is just my neighborhood...

on the subway there was this really cute girl playing games with her dad...she had weird teeth but she was still really cute. her clothes were all shades of red that didn't match but it didn't look bad. little kids can pull that kind of thing off.

on an upnote i got mail from my lit prof. he is so nice. apparently we have class at 9 instead of at 1 on friday. This is kinda lousy because it means I will have to be there allllll day lonnnnng cuz my other class is at 2...but then i guess i have a helluva lot of work to do in the library so it will be ok. I wonder if everyone else will have the same idea tho...could mean stretched resources hum hum hummmmm

after tomorrow all i want is the weekend...

Dust on my monitor

Ah well I forgot to say that my mom sent me LOADS of EASTER CANDY including the BEST chocolate eggs in the WOLRD.

Aside from that there is actually a great deal of dust on my monitor.

Also it seems that I have indeed NOT gone home to study. I will perhaps read in the park...

My profile should hopefully be updated by the time this is posted...

Dude there was something else I was gonna say but it's been lost forever...

dang lol

Tomorrow, my freedom!

Well not really, but momentarily...I will hang with Greg AND will NOT think about homework. XD

I think I need to get my lit teacher to understand that I will need some extra time...that I will have to make my own schedule based on the FINAL due date and not freak out over every other mid project deadline. My own special foreign student topic, my own special foreign student schedule. I think that sounds fair...

I need to e-mail him.

WELLLLLLL

Aside from that I am near the end of the novel. Which is good because my OTHER class requires that I have an outline for a paper making some point about the title character. I am no good at this. That alone will require a heroic effort.

The only problem with extending the dates on the first mentioned paper is that for that SAME class we have another huge thing due next week having to do with dictionaries and encyclopedias and in general just a whole lot MORE research that may or may not be the end of me. This is something that you just don't DO at any school I've ever been to so I am completely unprepared...

Next week though, will be the continuation of my new and improved (time-wise) schedule. The only thing I don't like about it is the way one feeeels as tho one is descending into the pit of hellllll as the week goes onnnnn. Monday and Tuesday are soooo easy with only one hour of class just taking notes...never anything to prepare (at least i don't THINK we're supposed to be preparing anything...). Wednesday is mostly boring with two hours of history and not much to prepare...as far as I understand it there is just one paper to be handed in in increments throughout the semester and then once as a completed "dossier" at the end. Tomorrow is lit and cinema WHICH i have to decipher some things for still...and make up some movies i missed...alth i know there are other people who have also missed them so that should be a breeze...but then FRIDAY are BOTH of the SCARY classes for a full FOUR HOURS of TERROR x_x *cry*

The cool thing is that my app for the university of Rochester is almost complete and there is no rush as they accept them until June. That is nice...

*ching*

I'm very tempted to go study Japanese at the MCJP as I haven't been there in a while...but I think my time would be more productively spent by... ...studying Japanese at the MCJP hahaHA isn't THAT the KILLER? no but really i should do my French homework because French, it's a good thing to have around. (I miss linguistics...check out that displacement!!!)

got my soul education (dammit!!)

as for the pocketful of rainbows, i think it's in my other pants...

errrrm so the weekend was a bit dismal...

and i think i have officially had my mid-college crisis

I'm not a Russian major anymore...

Ever since I got here all I'm doing is destroying my identity, growing my hair, changing majors, WHAT'S NEXT???

So I'm applying to the university of Rochester which is TOO expensive but they have Japanese and they are nice and waive the app fee if you fill out the forms online.

I decided to drop my Russian classes instead of the History of Paris because I think I have a better chance of passing History of Paris...

Everyone wants PAPERS tho.

The only constant thing has been this lousy mood and my terror in the face of my lit class. I don't know enough about France, French, or LIT for that matter, to be taking this class.

What really makes me mad is that if I would've had this miserable revelation BEFORE coming here then I could've picked a friendlier school and had way better classes and a much more organized life. As it stands I have a measly 12 credits and six of them I am on my way to failing. At least six...

I don't know.

Anyhow so I'm not going to Russia. I should start a tab for all the mistakes I make instead of paying for them upfront...

Like I said tho I will probably be transferring.

If I could find a school in NYC that would be better. I could keep some of my MICEFA friends better that way.

Or maybe I should go to California. In fact I should look in California.

That is a good idea...

park

i went to the jardins de luxembourg today...altho i dunno if i spelled it right which is sad

it's a nice big park

i had a milkshake from le quick which really hit the spot and then just kinda wandered...i should've sat down but i didn't anyhow it's better to be there than to sit on the lawn in front of the residence like i did for a bit with some people yesterday

anyhow at the park they have tennis courts and uhm that one game that all the old guys play...i watched some dudes for probably almost an hour...they just keep going and going i would probably get sick of it...it's the one where they toss the balls...it might just be called boules...i don't remember...but at one point i knew a bit more about it

and there were silly teenagers having water fights and lots of people sitting all over the place. i found out that barbapapa the cartoon character gets his name from the word for cotton candy

so i bought some net time at a place by the park...this is a nice neighborhood. there are lots of stores and the Panthéon is just down the road...there is a quick and macdo competing across the streets over there...

i wish i wasn't feeling so horrible...it's a really nice day...they put grass down on the sidewalks around here...rolled it out this morning maybe...it's interesting...

i have no idea what i'm doing tonite

Don't rock the boat

far too late for that

well i wrote yesterday but it got erased...

so that's depressing...

mostly things are going lousily

i don't even remember what i wrote about yesterday...it's too bad cuz it was going to be worth waiting for hopefully or at least interesting enough to bother with...

not only do i not remember what i wrote, but i no longer really remember what i got up to all week so the point is just completely obliterated...

[insert catching title here]

Well it has certainly been a while. I'm pretty much out of net time. It's funny because I was going to go on a rave about Datif and I realized I already did. I met him in the elevator ne, and here I am on his computer cuz he roxxorz.

I met a librarian and a psychiatrist. They were both interesting in their own ways. The librarian was cooler; he told me to push people in the subway to get on crowded trains. :D lol

I have never had so much work to do in my entire life (including middle school and I, if no one else, remember the horror that was). I went to film and we watched a movie about Algeria. Hmm...it was ok but I was kinda tired. The floor was uncomfortable enough to keep me awake tho. The only other class I hadn't already been to was TDB for my lit class. It is a summary and paper writing class. How DEADLY X_X *perishes at the thought*

ganbarou o_o

I want to import some encouraging signs from Japanese grade school classrooms. I think they could brighten my day as well. (I learn so much at the MCJP :D)

I'd like to start swimming but I don't think I can afford a swimming suit. I mean I COULD but then I couldn't afford to actually GO to the pool. hahaha nah i'd probably be ok but i really need to cut it out with the money stuff...altho lately it's been going to study materials so i don't feel toooo bad

On the 22 Greg and I are gonna hang out. This is sweet. I'm so glad he didn't really fall off the planet. He's just a slave is all...

I read part of this history book to get a better grasp on the nineteenth century in France and it didn't work so I feel like it was a waste of time lol.

My lit classes are really great. TDA is a research class so we learned about reference materials. This might sound really basic and stupid but it was actually really...good. We used old encyclopedias and historical dictionaries and Bible encyclopedias o_o Tomorrow is part one of the early meetings for the CM

travaux dirigés - like a discussion but not really a discussion...guided work...
cours magistraux - a big huge lecture

I'm gonna sit up front so those paper-rumpling chicks won't bother me :D

So yesterday...I studied and went to the MCJP. Then I went out to this bar that I keep forgetting the name of where I had a Maitai. This is quite a good drink. I only ordered it cuz Lily drinks them. Xav you should tell Lily I felt inspired. I mean unless she read this. Lily if you read this you have to comment and say something about how great Maitais are. LOL Holy cow tho it was 11 euros; glad I wasn't buying cuz that's nearly 15 bux. THAT is one great reason to NEVER go out. That and I don't really like bars...at all. LOL which I fear I made fairly apparent...but oh well ;p

Today was a NIGHTMARE. The idea was to buy chinese pastries to take to the lunch club but then i never made it to the lunch club...so i'm sharing the pastries with my other friends. Man tho it was awful...tons of time in the métro AND FOR WHAT...i was lost but then i found the place and couldn't figure out how to get in...or buzz her and whatever cuz my phone was broke i couldn't contact her at all : / and i still can't cuz i don't have her e-mail...i'll see her on thursday tho...

anyhow i studied and got happy e-mails and am hanging with Datif. (we study like mad crazy ;D)

Datif says to say: whatever i want

lol that is no help

he is "un enfant du monde" --a child of the world :D

and so we will study i guess now...i have soooo much CRUD to do...homework up and down the river...

and up again

o_O

~dUcK!

habits pay off

as long as they are good...like always buying tasty sandwiches from the oriental lady who must LIVE at that counter...

i didn't have any cash on me and couldn't think of enough things to buy to get the amount up to 5 euros so she said i could come back and pay her tomorrow...TOMORROW (!!!) lol i've gotten people to let me run home and back directly when i forgot my card or something in the states but she was just like, "tomorrow, no big deal" :D

there was a talented man on the subway today who did a monologue which included a song

today i had History of Paris and took lots of notes but apparently she gives us a write up on every lesson the following week...also we went on a visit which was unfortunately half-identical to a tour i had already been on...oh well...it's just a bummer to have to drag all your books around for an hour i guess...in addition, i heard we have to write some paper about our neighborhood...i guess i won't be able to escape this exercise (think back to the orientation class that i quit in the nick of time....)

i was gonna research a bit but i think instead i will go nextdoor and see if they have a book about the 19th century...cuz i need to learn SWIFTLY...i guess it will have to be in french...*sigh sigh sigh* I've been reading a lot of a lot of things lately but it's hard to keep it up!! you get tired and buggy after a while *_*

did i talk about the guy i met in the elevator? i don't remember...but he's pretty nice i went to go say hi last night and he was SO happy o_o we talked until midnight o_o about all sorts of random things...and almost exclusively in French :D he likes to talk so it's cool. also he made pretty tasty spaghetti. ah! and he has the net and said i could come by and study or whatever anytime and borrow his books and he even tried to give me plates lol he is well stocked cuz his parents live just over there *waves in a general direction that is probably wrong*

this afternoon i studied japanese and read at the MCJP. i finished the book i had been working on so i picked another that seems like a more general look at japanese culture but still through the eyes of a teacher so there will be school stuff...i also found a "comprehensive reader" which is good practice with kanji.

french is nice :D

i smile again

hmm classes went surprisingly well...luckily she didn't quiz us on verbs...we stuck to aspect which i am usually smart on but wow she threw me for a loop when she said you can use words like "toujours" with the passé composé...that shatters what i know o_o

i'm gonna ask greg about that...

assuming he e-mails me back :D

what else what else...

lit went well...i did some of the evil packet and it wasn't really that evil...it feels like fake warm-up research...which in a way, it kind of is...

i still don't undestand the difference between cotes salles and cotes magasins tho...

cousin bette is interesting so far...altho i'm not too far

i'm super interested in lit now...i really like the lectures our prof gives...it's too bad he has to work so hard tho...french lecture halls sounds are SO nosy. he has to eternally "please" everybody while tapping the mic...i understand most of what he says but it's sometimes hard to understand what he said and why he was saying it at the same time (or really ever cuz if you're not doing it when he says it you're not likely to have it dawn upon you later) i guess i could tape the lectures but most of the time it seems like my missing it is due to someone rustling or conversating far too loudly

i think next time i'll get over it and go sit up front further

cuz i really do like his lectures

also i still haven't talked to him...this is perhaps a problem

ah ha and i also discovered that there is more time to this class than i thought...actually it comes out to six hours a week so i wonder if i get credit for all that...

it's confusing

and it's funny cuz did i already say that profs seem to feel like they can add time to their classes if they want? i think i did...but next week i have lit bright and early at 8 monday morning...it'll be good as long as i go to bed

last night i stayed up too late putting accents over russian verbs...too bad that was TOTALLY unimportant lol

i hope my translation was ok...it seemed a little...CRUMMY lol

i was hoping to get by today without a snack but it's sooo not gonna happen i had lunch at twelve and now i'm starving hahaha and i'm going to the MCJP which is SO open today so i can learn some honorifics and read like a banshee and write kanji till my arm falls off

XD

yay!

k-o tiz all... OH WAIT

i forgot to talk about the magical métro man o_o

i was riding home last night on the...four lol but i transfered from the seven cuz it was right after i left here and i was sitting there and there was this DUDE sitting across from this lady and her little boy. I missed what happened before cuz i had just gotten on the train but he was SUPER MAGICAL like the spirit of all French happiness or something. You NEVER see people who don't know each other talking in the subway and here he was with a long-stemmed rose and this hat and this jacket charming this little boy and trying to get him to sing a song. I thought HE would start singing any second. I felt like I was in a movie lol or really more like I was watching one. I wonder if anyone else in the car felt like that cuz many of the people there seemed interested in what was going on. If you think of the stereotypical French man-voice that sounds nice and happy and friendly then you are thinking of his. I dunno how this dude got so cheerful. Anyhow in the end the boy's mom was on the phone and the guy had to get off the train so he waved bye and the little boy was so cute and waved back how aDORable o_O Man it was the coolest thing in the world. I wish there were more people like that. I watched him walking down the quai as the train pulled away; he looked soooo happy :D

oYOY

so gosh i wrote a really great blog entry this morning long and detailed, witty and enlightening, THRILLING and full of ADVENTURE

unfortunately the connection got messed up and it got completely erased...

so it goes...

that is all lost to eternity now

this past weekend was decent despite being sick...

saturday night i went out for dinner (far too late but it was ok cuz i stayed up till almost five am making anime posters) to an american restaurant with renée and chris. I REALLY wanted to get a bacon cheeseburger but for some reason whenever i go out for burgers at good restaurants i get sick and i wasn't feeling terribly adventurous so i had grilled tuna with pesto, spinach, and tomatos instead. Needless to say it ROXXORED XD and then we all got dessert and they have good banana cream pie...or rather, the first banana cream pie i've seen since i got here. It doesn't quite match Beans & Barley but it was pretty groovy.

Then sunday the same two cats came over and i made curry with the my stuff and some stuff renée brought. So that was the first meeting of the sunday lunch club...altho someday we're gonna have to make it a brunch club and go to some crazy restaurant for breakfast XD cuz i could just eat breakfast all day long...breakfast food really is the best o_o

uhm after that we went to the musée d'orsay where my nose ran i mean...we saw art...lol

i also picked up the map in three languages (bet you can guess which--because english is boring)

haha there were these girls dashing around the van gogh gallery. Speaking of which in france you say van GUG (with a "uh" and a "g") not GO--anyhow one of these girls stopped the other and said: reGARDE c'est VinCENT van GOGH (gug). C'est MOCHE!!
LOOK it's VINcent van GOGH (go). It's UGly!

I found that amusing...she may have said it cuz it was a weird portrait where he looked like a rainbow carpet or maybe like he was growing mold...i dunno...just cuz you wouldn't want to eat him doesn't mean it's ugly : /

lol (in french you say mdr = mort de rire which i guess i would translate non-literally as "death by laughter")

what else...oh Howl's Moving Castle was a pretty good book. Not like the movie at all o_o but really cool. If I get my act together I may send it home so other people can read it. I think Lindsey might like it o_o or Eva or somebody...

Xav, you should read it too. Have you seen the movie yet? I guess it probably isn't out there yet...or is it? Maybe it is...o_o

What I have discoverd upon further perusal of my assignment for my TD in DLM100FR (lit) is that the book report is actually a SIDENOTE to the much larger and looslier structured paper. Did I discuss this in here already? Maybe not o_o I have to read a book that won the Goncourt Prize and write about that but the REAL assignment is to write a big huge paper about the prize itself. intro + two pages of history + four more pages of whatever i feel is pertinent + conc. i dunno how i'm gonna manage that o_o

anyhow and then there is the other class which...i dunno...i don't really understand how or if they are connected...but i have to read Cousin Bette which i DID find the translation of today so huzzah...

wheee and it's russian tomorrow so i should go home, eat, and study

imagine my immense sorrow when i got to the MCJP today and found it closed cuz i didn't note the MONDAYNESS of it all

tomorrow i won't have time to go...

i really really like their library...

i also decided i have to finish the DR book. I kinda lost track of it over the past couple weeks but it seems to be much of the same...coup d'états every five minutes and lots of corrupt dictators printing money, devaluing the currency...*sigh sigh sigh* I'm in the 20th century now tho so that is cool.

so to backtrack a bit i said i found Cousin Bette in English...WHERE i found it tho is more fun than actually having found it so i should mention it: Shakespeare & Co. is a little tiny bookstore crammed to the brim with English lit and some poetry history science russian things german things spanish things. It was really cool. It was dangerous. I let myself have Heart of Darkness as a reward but wow I wanted to read just about everything they had. It's nice that there's an english bookstore around...but it's also hella tempting.

hum well i will go blow my nose and learn some verbs or something...

that should keep me busy o_o

kwa

so i found that book yesterday. it was a major blizzard but we went out and got our feet very wet and frozen and i found the book...and realized the overwhelming impossibility of reading the original. i mean i COULD do it but it'd be more like deciphering than reading and i need to have it READ lol SOON so i'm not so freakin' behind...

school is a downer every time i think of it...i think i'd be learning more french (which i think was supposed to be the point...right?) if i weren't so worried and occupied and hating these classes...really it's just a bother...i have some french connections so i could just spend more time with those people and maybe if i wasn't in such a lousy mood always i would get up enough go-do to be outgoing once in a while.

i'm not really very good at school either...this ten page paper...i just have no idea what to write about...this literary prize...i don't think i can summon ten pages of intelligence on that...

plus i don't think i'm cut out to filter through a stack of books taller than me in the library all day

nor do i WANT to be cut out for it (so why practice?)

mostly i just wanted to speak decent french...i dunno why that is so much to ask for...

and then russian...i dunno what happened...was it all just a hypomanic dream? that was supposed to be my purpose in life and now what...i keep on chalking it up to the general confusion/identity crisis but it doesn't seem to fit...if it's really gone then i don't have a major anymore...unless i become a french major in which case rather than going to russia next year i should be moving out of paris into a small out of the way french place...

and then there's japanese...

i'm sick of thinking about all this junk

uhm...today i realized that my cell phone alarm is broken and that's why i can't seem to wake up on time...

this makes me mad...

i decided i'm going to treat myself to the novel that Howl's Moving Castle is based on...so i'm pretty excited about that...

i have some japanese movies to see today...i don't even really want to go...but i have tickets so i might as well and they will be good movies...i'm just still in a lousy mood

yesterday i did laundry and took out the trash and washed the dishes so that felt productive...but i still wish i had a broom...

and a mop...

i'm gonna see if emanuel will come shopping with me sometime...

also the window in my room doesn't close so a sweatshirt and my dictionary are holding it in a semi-closed position until it gets fixed...

bleck...now i just feel worse...anyhow time to go eat lunch and all that jazz...

getting sick again

really i think get sick just about every two months...it hasn't even BEEN two months yet...is that normal? I got sick at the end of summer, and i got sick about two months after that...i was sick in december and i was sick in the middle of january at steve's...and now i'm sick again...what the heck??

things aren't going very well...i'm terrified of my lit class, i haven't been able to find my MICEFA classes...no luck at all...no luck...

i dunno not much is going on...i need to go grocery shopping but it's too late tonite...i guess that's tomorrows job...

the weather has been really lousy

snowy cold yucky slushy

it gets really grimy...cold grime...

"the nastiest sidewalk" heh

chris wants to go get ice cream...i don't really deserve ice cream but i think i will go just so i can say i left the building today...

and then tomorrow i will do some of those things i was supposed to do...

uhm...guess that's it...hopefully ice cream will be ok...

i don't really need it...but maybe it will be ok

after that

man so i went and had a lame lunch...cuz see i was at the cybercafe and then i went towards place d'italie and just kinda randomly picked a place...

what did i have?

croque monsieur (which is basically ham and cheese grilled)
fries (for some reason i eat fries here)
and ok ok ok

i had "white cheese" cuz the thing is you can buy a meal deal where they kinda just give you a bunch of stuff and it's not as expensive as buying everything separate

i didn't really want the cheese but i figured i would try it

it was sorta like...cream cheese...in a bowl...with honey...

sorta

but not quite

it was like plain yogurt only too thick to be yogurt?

in either case it was disgusting...but i think they expected me to keep picking at it because i eventually had to go ASK them for my coffee (also included in the meal)

after that i went to a movie theater and found a ticket for Finding Neverland but had an hour to spare so the dude told me to go shopping instead of "punishing myself" by sitting on the floor playing my gameboy

so i went to the mall

and got a hat at *celio...is it like that? where is the star? i don't remember...man...they have very very nice guy clothes there...and this hat which is super cool...it is olive with a lime band on the very tip of the brim...and there are three patches on the back/side which have a griffin and what one of them says "denim leather est 1976 swdept authentic" and the other says "seventy-six limited" at first i thought the patches were a bit odd but they've grown on me...76 is also a VERY nice number...

uhm so then i rushed back to the theater and saw the movie and i must've just wanted to cry the whole time...it was the best movie i've seen in a really really really longtime...REALLY if you haven't seen it i hope you still can because it is so amazing...johnny depp is great of course but so are the boys o_o omigosh and the lady they had playing peter pan was awesome too (in the play excerpts) soooo good...i may go again depending on what happens next week

so then what i went on a random walk...for about an hour through the latin quarter etc and ended up at the ONE place i didn't want to be...that was depressing...and since i had decided that the next metro stop was the one i would take i HAD to go in and take it

*sigh*

funny how that all works out

more like EVIL

but then i got home and visited some people...still visiting people...

i dunno

guess that's it...

very exciting... 6_6

(not)

mars

well i bought my new metro ticket today

it was really...weird to leave my february one at home...

it's all beat up and bent...

i ran around for a whole month on that thing and so much crazy junk has happened

i'm in a lousy mood

and i need to find lunch...at some point today I'm going to go see Finding Neverland

I'd also like to find a hat so I don't have to think about my hair anymore ever again.

Ever.

Well ok not ever...but still...

I dunno where to go hat shopping.

Last night I stayed up until 4am reading The Da Vinci Code...it's kinda interesting i guess...i dunno...i feel like i'm reading it more out of...obligation than anything

but it's still ok...

uhm...

I haven't done much today so I don't have a whole lot to say I guess...

I listened to Phantom Planet this morning...

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