Well I finally finished packing up EVERYTHING!!! I have way way way too much stuff! I bought a new little suitcase at some point this semester before i went on my spring break trip to England, and even with that extra suitcase I still had to cram everything in, and use 2 plastic shopping bags, one of which contains only yarn! It's insane how much shit I have! Ay ay ay!
I've been trying to get presents for people, just little things to give when I get back this summer/restart school next fall. I won't mention what I'm getting my friends on the off-chance anyone reads this blog, but it's been challenging trying to find things. For my mom I got a ton of stuff cause it's also for mother's day, but I got her a mug and some nice tea, and i got my dad a mug and some expresso, for he is a grand coffee connaisseur. I got my brother one of our favorite childhood books in French, and some fancy chopsticks with a hokusai print on them. I still have to figure out the rest of extended family, if i want to get them anything, and finish figuring out what to get my friends, especially guy friends, since I can't just buy them nail polish or something. I mean, I think I could, but I think it would strike them pretty weird if Iwere to do that.
In a few minutes I'm going to leave the apt with my first trip of luggage, my first of 3! I have two ginormous suitcases, one smaller one, a small duffel bag, my giant bookbag crammed full of crap, and my two shopping bags, one of yarn and one of things I couldn't fit anywhere. And then I have 2 shoeboxes full of little things that I will grab later after I come back here for dinner. It's so weird to be moving out!!! I can't believe this semester is over! It seems like not long ago at all that I first arrived at the apartment and saw my cute little (ok, its fucking tiny) room and unpacked my mounds and mounds of clothing into a tiny tiny armoire. Ugh why do I have so much stufffffffff!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its toooo muchhh!!!!
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
In Denial
I cannot believe this semester has ended. It is utterly unbelieveable! I am in complete denial! It was a hard semester, for many reasons, but still I'm sad to see it go. On the one hand, I feel ready to leave France and just go home and chill with my family, go swimming, dip my feet in the pacific, eat tacos, burritos, papusas, enchiladas, tamales (hey im a southern california girl after all), spend time with my friends and family, and see my kitties! Being away from home for so long, and in a completely unfamiliar country where the language, culture, customs, and food were totally different (i've eaten eggs so many times now! vom vom vom) has been really tough but it's also been an amazing experience. When else in my life will i have the chance to do this again? Never! At least, not within the same context and with the same people. Nonetheless, it gets weary and you just miss home after a while, where people eat blackbeans and corn and you can go to a movie without needing subtitles.
However, this semester has been too amazing for words. I haven't blogged as much as I meant to/wish I had (whoops, another new years resolution inachieved) so i haven't really expressed it here, but really...this semester changed me. It sounds cheesy and dumb, but it's true. I met so many amazing people who now I can't imagine not having in my life, to the extent we're already planning reunions for the fall (thank god almost all of APA goes to school in either DC or Philly, reunions will be a snap!). Classes were hard but interesting, and I cannot believe I took 5 classes entirely in French in what was only my 6th semester studying the language! I'm proud of myself, but really I owe it to the amazing immersion program I was on. Speaking French on a daily basis with my host parents, taking classes at the Sorbonne and Pantheon-Sorbonne directly with other french university students, and really living in Paris, and not in a dorm or university campus, has been so impactful. It's really strange to think that it's all about to disappear, this fairytale land I've been living in since January. I have been so profoundly lucky that it makes me catch my breath.
I'm excited for my mom and aunt judy to come visit, i have missed my mom so much! and aunt judy, while she can get annoying and isn't the best at interpersonal relations, has gotten much more tolerable in recent years and hey, she became a vegetarian, so points for that! it'll be so fun to have them here tour them around my paris! i'm also super excited for my travels with amanda, even though they still feel so far away. I'll be in Paris with Mom and Aunt J till June 12, then leaving for Oxford, and hanging out till Amandatron finishes her semester around June 22 i think. Then off we go to Scandinavia! Copenhagen, Helsinki, Stockholm, maybe Oslo, and then Prague and Vienna and maybe Budapest. I'm soooo stoked but it seems so unreal cause we still haven't planned anything (eeek!!!).
I still just can't comprehend how fast this semester has passed by, I don't want my amazing experience to end! Already so many APA friends are leaving or have left, and it seems like my belle vie a la francaise is unravelling at the seams. And tomorrow, Taylor leaves. I know I'll see her this summer when we're in LA and often next year, but it seems nonetheless that this will be a difficult goodbye. Only a few times in my life before now have I become sisters with someone so fast, and as with Annie and Hadas, I know Taylor is a best friend I'll always have in my life. It just feels like it won't be exactly the same as it was this semester, when i got to spend countless hours everyday with her! In her words, she is definitely in my tribe!
Gaahhhh I'm getting so emotional and waxing poetic to a computer screen, but really I just can't help it. One practical sidenote: I am still completely unpacked. Ummm quite a daunting task this will be. Thanks for a great semester, study abroad gods!
However, this semester has been too amazing for words. I haven't blogged as much as I meant to/wish I had (whoops, another new years resolution inachieved) so i haven't really expressed it here, but really...this semester changed me. It sounds cheesy and dumb, but it's true. I met so many amazing people who now I can't imagine not having in my life, to the extent we're already planning reunions for the fall (thank god almost all of APA goes to school in either DC or Philly, reunions will be a snap!). Classes were hard but interesting, and I cannot believe I took 5 classes entirely in French in what was only my 6th semester studying the language! I'm proud of myself, but really I owe it to the amazing immersion program I was on. Speaking French on a daily basis with my host parents, taking classes at the Sorbonne and Pantheon-Sorbonne directly with other french university students, and really living in Paris, and not in a dorm or university campus, has been so impactful. It's really strange to think that it's all about to disappear, this fairytale land I've been living in since January. I have been so profoundly lucky that it makes me catch my breath.
I'm excited for my mom and aunt judy to come visit, i have missed my mom so much! and aunt judy, while she can get annoying and isn't the best at interpersonal relations, has gotten much more tolerable in recent years and hey, she became a vegetarian, so points for that! it'll be so fun to have them here tour them around my paris! i'm also super excited for my travels with amanda, even though they still feel so far away. I'll be in Paris with Mom and Aunt J till June 12, then leaving for Oxford, and hanging out till Amandatron finishes her semester around June 22 i think. Then off we go to Scandinavia! Copenhagen, Helsinki, Stockholm, maybe Oslo, and then Prague and Vienna and maybe Budapest. I'm soooo stoked but it seems so unreal cause we still haven't planned anything (eeek!!!).
I still just can't comprehend how fast this semester has passed by, I don't want my amazing experience to end! Already so many APA friends are leaving or have left, and it seems like my belle vie a la francaise is unravelling at the seams. And tomorrow, Taylor leaves. I know I'll see her this summer when we're in LA and often next year, but it seems nonetheless that this will be a difficult goodbye. Only a few times in my life before now have I become sisters with someone so fast, and as with Annie and Hadas, I know Taylor is a best friend I'll always have in my life. It just feels like it won't be exactly the same as it was this semester, when i got to spend countless hours everyday with her! In her words, she is definitely in my tribe!
Gaahhhh I'm getting so emotional and waxing poetic to a computer screen, but really I just can't help it. One practical sidenote: I am still completely unpacked. Ummm quite a daunting task this will be. Thanks for a great semester, study abroad gods!
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Crochet Pineapple Progress
My work on the crochet pineapple tablecloth, which i thought would be really hard, is coming along really well and quickly! it's so easy! the pattern has a lot of repetition but enough changes to keep it interesting. i can't wait to make another one for my mom and maybe even another for my apartment in baltimore. i thought i would include some pics so you could finally see what i'm talking about with this whole pineapple business. i should be writing a paper, or asleep, but what ya gonna do? im oddly ambivalent and completely unmotivated this year for finals, im way too burnt out and apathetic to even care right now/the last few weeks. i need a break and i am kinda feeling ready to leave Paris. i love it here and i've been having the most amazing experience of my life, but it is a long time to be away from home and out of my comfort zone.
crochet crochet crochet! all i want to do all day is craft, it's kinda a problem when there are papers and 11 exams left to take. (Why I have 11 exams for 5 classes is just Satan's work/the french university system/ unfair. don't wanna talk about it) This is the first time I've ever put pictures on the blog so if it doesn't work right, then whoops my bad! (Clockwise from top left: 1. the tablecloth: a work in progress! it is splayed out on my bed, and it covers the width of my twin bed! so much bigger than i thought it would be at this point!, 2. a close up view of the pineapple pattern, 3. a piece of paper (my final exam schedule baarrghhhhhhffffffkkkk) on the tablecloth for scale, and 4. a broach/pin i bought at an adorable adorable store today full of the cutest things for crafting, home decor, randomness, and clothing (it was kinda like a smaller girlier version of Amsterdam's Kitsch Kitchen, my favorite place in the world.) and the best espadrille sandals ever that were super out of my price range.
crochet crochet crochet! all i want to do all day is craft, it's kinda a problem when there are papers and 11 exams left to take. (Why I have 11 exams for 5 classes is just Satan's work/the french university system/ unfair. don't wanna talk about it) This is the first time I've ever put pictures on the blog so if it doesn't work right, then whoops my bad! (Clockwise from top left: 1. the tablecloth: a work in progress! it is splayed out on my bed, and it covers the width of my twin bed! so much bigger than i thought it would be at this point!, 2. a close up view of the pineapple pattern, 3. a piece of paper (my final exam schedule baarrghhhhhhffffffkkkk) on the tablecloth for scale, and 4. a broach/pin i bought at an adorable adorable store today full of the cutest things for crafting, home decor, randomness, and clothing (it was kinda like a smaller girlier version of Amsterdam's Kitsch Kitchen, my favorite place in the world.) and the best espadrille sandals ever that were super out of my price range.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Current Book Wish List
1. Handmade Modern: mid century projects for your home by TODD OLDHAM
2. Creativity Inc.
3. the Design Sponge BOOK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4. Scandinavian Needlecraft (just look at the cutest embroidered bird on the cover! http://www.amazon.com/Scandinavian-Needlecraft-Step-step-Projects/dp/1907030220/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272389613&sr=1-1)
5. Kid Made Modern also by Mr. Oldhamm
6. Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY
I would also like this semester to end without me actually having to take finals and write papers, thank-you. I would also like more coffee.
2. Creativity Inc.
3. the Design Sponge BOOK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4. Scandinavian Needlecraft (just look at the cutest embroidered bird on the cover! http://www.amazon.com/Scandinavian-Needlecraft-Step-step-Projects/dp/1907030220/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272389613&sr=1-1)
5. Kid Made Modern also by Mr. Oldhamm
6. Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY
I would also like this semester to end without me actually having to take finals and write papers, thank-you. I would also like more coffee.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Sleeping
I have recently discovered something. I think it might be a major life discovery. Background info: I have never slept like a normal person. I am driven to stay up late, incapable of forcing myself to go to bed early, fairly incapable of waking up on time if on time means the early morning, am always exhausted during the day because i never get much sleep at night because i've had to wake up early, can easily pull all-nighters and so it way more often than most people, and i don't get tired until around 2-3 am. Up until yesterday, I thought I was just a nightowl, not a morning lark, and that I was just unique in that my peak activity hours were in the evening/at night.
Then I decided I might be nocturnal and went to wikipedia to see what it had to say about the possibility of nocturnality in people. I was reading just the general article about nocturnality and what makes some animals nocturnal and some animals diurnal, and it mentioned that for humans a similar phenomenon to nocturnality was Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrom (DSPS). I immediately clicked on the link to that article, read it, and was ASTOUNDED! Now I'm not usually a hypochondriac, but there have been other times when I read about some syndrom or disorder on wiki and thought I might have it because I could relate to a few of the symptoms or one thing in the article seemd to fit my life. This DSPS article was not like that, it was as if it was written specifically about me. Every single sentence and symptom it listed are things i relate to 100% and experience every single day of my life. I really think I might have this syndrom, which is a circadian rhthym disorder (the circadian rhythm is our biological clock that tells us rise with the sun/light, sleep with the sunsent/dark.) I have never read anything else in the world I have related to on so many levels, every single level possible, even for the diseases/conditions I know that I have/have long been diagnosed as having and treated for (a chronic allergy pulmonary condition called *surprise surprise* chronic broncheal sinusitic allergic rhinitis = chronic lungs and sinuses nasal allergies/ the reason i'm allergic to most things in the world. it's like basic hay fever on crack to summarize).
So back to DSPS, it is as summarized by wiki, "a circadian rhythm sleep disorder, a chronic disorder of the timing of sleep, peak period of alertness, the core body temperature rhythm, hormonal and other daily rhythms relative to societal norms. People with DSPS tend to fall asleep some hours after midnight and have difficulty waking up in the morning." The symptoms listed are as follows;
1. There is an intractable delay in the phase of the major sleep period in relation to the desired clock time, as evidenced by a chronic or recurrent complaint of inability to fall asleep at a desired conventional clock time together with the inability to awaken at a desired and socially acceptable time.
2. When not required to maintain a strict schedule, patients will exhibit normal sleep quality and duration for their age and maintain a delayed, but stable, phase of entrainment to local time.
3. Patients have little or no reported difficulty in maintaining sleep once sleep has begun.
4. Patients have a relatively severe to absolute inability to advance the sleep phase to earlier hours by enforcing conventional sleep and wake times.
5. Sleep-wake logs and/or actigraphy monitoring for at least two weeks document a consistent habitual pattern of sleep onsets, usually later than 2 a.m., and lengthy sleeps.
6. Occasional noncircadian days may occur (i.e., sleep is "skipped" for an entire day and night plus some portion of the following day), followed by a sleep period lasting 12 to 18 hours.
7. The symptoms do not meet the criteria for any other sleep disorder causing inability to initiate sleep or excessive sleepiness.
8. If any of the following laboratory methods is used, it must demonstrate a delay in the timing of the habitual sleep period: 1) Twenty-four-hour polysomnographic monitoring (or by means of two consecutive nights of polysomnography and an intervening multiple sleep latency test), 2) Continuous temperature monitoring showing that the time of the absolute temperature nadir is delayed into the second half of the habitual (delayed) sleep episode.
So other than the last one about lab tests, I have experienced all of those symptoms every single day of my life, especially so for the last FEW YEARS!!!! I always thought I was just a night owl, but now I feel so astonished, overwhelmed, happy and sad that there is a good chance I have this disorder and therefore a reason for my bizarre sleeping habits. There are treatments for DSPS, but it's mostly a case by case basis of managing the condition and living with it. There is no cure, and if I do have it, I'll have to go through some different treatments to figure out which one works for me, some of the most common ones being light therapy, melatonin supplements, vitamin B12, and a few perscription drugs that have shown to help, along with efforts to change the sleeping cycle upheld and practiced every single day. It's a pretty scary thought, but also oddly exhilerating to know that there may be a reason for all of it. I'm going to start keeping a sleep log and hope to see a specialist when i get back to california this summer. I can't wait to find out, the idea of maybe having to start weird treatments for it is a scary thought, but the idea of knowing why I'm like this is refreshing and exciting. It's a really rare condition (3 in 2,000), and there may even be support groups, and there are definitely groups like that and blogs about it online along with a related condition called Non-24 Sleep-Hour-Wake Syndrom.
here's the link to the article for anyone interested, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome
In other news, my crazy crochet pineapple tablecloth project is going super well after scrapping the initial pattern which was just not working and finding a different one that is even cuter and working so much better. It's a beautiful pattern, is working up quickly and pineapple stitch isn't even that hard after all, its intricate and you have to count stitches and make sure not to mess up the pattern, but the crocheting itself is simple. I might make another one of them for my mom after I finish Monique and Maurice's. I love crochet so much! It's a good hobby and time waster when I should be studying for the insane amount of exams and projects I have coming up!
Then I decided I might be nocturnal and went to wikipedia to see what it had to say about the possibility of nocturnality in people. I was reading just the general article about nocturnality and what makes some animals nocturnal and some animals diurnal, and it mentioned that for humans a similar phenomenon to nocturnality was Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrom (DSPS). I immediately clicked on the link to that article, read it, and was ASTOUNDED! Now I'm not usually a hypochondriac, but there have been other times when I read about some syndrom or disorder on wiki and thought I might have it because I could relate to a few of the symptoms or one thing in the article seemd to fit my life. This DSPS article was not like that, it was as if it was written specifically about me. Every single sentence and symptom it listed are things i relate to 100% and experience every single day of my life. I really think I might have this syndrom, which is a circadian rhthym disorder (the circadian rhythm is our biological clock that tells us rise with the sun/light, sleep with the sunsent/dark.) I have never read anything else in the world I have related to on so many levels, every single level possible, even for the diseases/conditions I know that I have/have long been diagnosed as having and treated for (a chronic allergy pulmonary condition called *surprise surprise* chronic broncheal sinusitic allergic rhinitis = chronic lungs and sinuses nasal allergies/ the reason i'm allergic to most things in the world. it's like basic hay fever on crack to summarize).
So back to DSPS, it is as summarized by wiki, "a circadian rhythm sleep disorder, a chronic disorder of the timing of sleep, peak period of alertness, the core body temperature rhythm, hormonal and other daily rhythms relative to societal norms. People with DSPS tend to fall asleep some hours after midnight and have difficulty waking up in the morning." The symptoms listed are as follows;
1. There is an intractable delay in the phase of the major sleep period in relation to the desired clock time, as evidenced by a chronic or recurrent complaint of inability to fall asleep at a desired conventional clock time together with the inability to awaken at a desired and socially acceptable time.
2. When not required to maintain a strict schedule, patients will exhibit normal sleep quality and duration for their age and maintain a delayed, but stable, phase of entrainment to local time.
3. Patients have little or no reported difficulty in maintaining sleep once sleep has begun.
4. Patients have a relatively severe to absolute inability to advance the sleep phase to earlier hours by enforcing conventional sleep and wake times.
5. Sleep-wake logs and/or actigraphy monitoring for at least two weeks document a consistent habitual pattern of sleep onsets, usually later than 2 a.m., and lengthy sleeps.
6. Occasional noncircadian days may occur (i.e., sleep is "skipped" for an entire day and night plus some portion of the following day), followed by a sleep period lasting 12 to 18 hours.
7. The symptoms do not meet the criteria for any other sleep disorder causing inability to initiate sleep or excessive sleepiness.
8. If any of the following laboratory methods is used, it must demonstrate a delay in the timing of the habitual sleep period: 1) Twenty-four-hour polysomnographic monitoring (or by means of two consecutive nights of polysomnography and an intervening multiple sleep latency test), 2) Continuous temperature monitoring showing that the time of the absolute temperature nadir is delayed into the second half of the habitual (delayed) sleep episode.
So other than the last one about lab tests, I have experienced all of those symptoms every single day of my life, especially so for the last FEW YEARS!!!! I always thought I was just a night owl, but now I feel so astonished, overwhelmed, happy and sad that there is a good chance I have this disorder and therefore a reason for my bizarre sleeping habits. There are treatments for DSPS, but it's mostly a case by case basis of managing the condition and living with it. There is no cure, and if I do have it, I'll have to go through some different treatments to figure out which one works for me, some of the most common ones being light therapy, melatonin supplements, vitamin B12, and a few perscription drugs that have shown to help, along with efforts to change the sleeping cycle upheld and practiced every single day. It's a pretty scary thought, but also oddly exhilerating to know that there may be a reason for all of it. I'm going to start keeping a sleep log and hope to see a specialist when i get back to california this summer. I can't wait to find out, the idea of maybe having to start weird treatments for it is a scary thought, but the idea of knowing why I'm like this is refreshing and exciting. It's a really rare condition (3 in 2,000), and there may even be support groups, and there are definitely groups like that and blogs about it online along with a related condition called Non-24 Sleep-Hour-Wake Syndrom.
here's the link to the article for anyone interested, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome
In other news, my crazy crochet pineapple tablecloth project is going super well after scrapping the initial pattern which was just not working and finding a different one that is even cuter and working so much better. It's a beautiful pattern, is working up quickly and pineapple stitch isn't even that hard after all, its intricate and you have to count stitches and make sure not to mess up the pattern, but the crocheting itself is simple. I might make another one of them for my mom after I finish Monique and Maurice's. I love crochet so much! It's a good hobby and time waster when I should be studying for the insane amount of exams and projects I have coming up!
Monday, May 10, 2010
why i love being an art historian
currently in the library at Michelet, l'institut d'art et d'archaeologie de la Sorbonne, doing research for a paper due tomorrow in my Impressionism class. Of course i started way late and am behind as usual, but i work well under pressure. i love doing research, especially when i read through my notes and realize how amazing some theorists and scholars out there are. notes from my research today in an exposition catalogue from the museum of modern art in Bologna on the nature of still life painting. (my essay is comparing two still lives, one by cezanne and one by monet, as a means of analysing both how the still life painting changed during impressionism and how both monet and cezanne left permanent footprints on painting that immensely changed art in the following generations leading up to modern art.)
staight from a purple spiral notebook in France:
* becoming > being re: reality
-- objects exist thanks to a process concieved in the picture and accomplished by perception and objects cannot be separated from this process
-- incessant seeing bound up w/ picture
-- content? --> banal vessels of supporting surfaces tell us/offer us an appearance that is constantly renewed, rejuvenated at every glance
-- objects become iconic physiognomies which attract us by the perpetual pleasure of looking
* Cezanne- nature not to be found at the surface
-- painter strives to discover nature through his work, to decipher nature through artisic means
** work of a still life painter = making the visible legible**
* Cezanne repeatedly stressed that the making of such a structure, the formation of a syntax = most difficult task in his painting
-- only when correct equivalent is found, when parallels btwn things have become evident, does the pure "motif", the pretext of the visible objects become the enduring texture/text of the picture
-- structure of the meaning of things, then appears in an intensified way in the artificial order of the still life
* Cezanne's still life painting = attempt to rescue phenomena
-- historical and cultural contexts
-- Cezanne's emphasis on the role of perception was accompagnied by an equally powerful skepticism as regards the reliability of perception
-- look closely "sur le motif", critically examine that perception, interpret it not as something self-evident but as an explicit act of translation, precisely b/c material reality seemed to Cezanne so intangible
-- process of differentiation necessary before material reality can be captured
-- absorb in objects in order to explore the equivalents that could lend them duration, presence, and clarified visibility
-- Cezanne's rescue = an aesthetic rescue, definition of painting = aesthetic rescue
that is the most perfect definition of painting i have ever encountered. i love the way the author got to that point, nothing has ever made more sense to me ever. if you're not a huge dork like me, and this didn't interest you at all, then sorry for wasting your time, but come on! that's fascinating! goodness only knows how much i love art history for moments like that. aesthetic rescue!!!
staight from a purple spiral notebook in France:
* becoming > being re: reality
-- objects exist thanks to a process concieved in the picture and accomplished by perception and objects cannot be separated from this process
-- incessant seeing bound up w/ picture
-- content? --> banal vessels of supporting surfaces tell us/offer us an appearance that is constantly renewed, rejuvenated at every glance
-- objects become iconic physiognomies which attract us by the perpetual pleasure of looking
* Cezanne- nature not to be found at the surface
-- painter strives to discover nature through his work, to decipher nature through artisic means
** work of a still life painter = making the visible legible**
* Cezanne repeatedly stressed that the making of such a structure, the formation of a syntax = most difficult task in his painting
-- only when correct equivalent is found, when parallels btwn things have become evident, does the pure "motif", the pretext of the visible objects become the enduring texture/text of the picture
-- structure of the meaning of things, then appears in an intensified way in the artificial order of the still life
* Cezanne's still life painting = attempt to rescue phenomena
-- historical and cultural contexts
-- Cezanne's emphasis on the role of perception was accompagnied by an equally powerful skepticism as regards the reliability of perception
-- look closely "sur le motif", critically examine that perception, interpret it not as something self-evident but as an explicit act of translation, precisely b/c material reality seemed to Cezanne so intangible
-- process of differentiation necessary before material reality can be captured
-- absorb in objects in order to explore the equivalents that could lend them duration, presence, and clarified visibility
-- Cezanne's rescue = an aesthetic rescue, definition of painting = aesthetic rescue
that is the most perfect definition of painting i have ever encountered. i love the way the author got to that point, nothing has ever made more sense to me ever. if you're not a huge dork like me, and this didn't interest you at all, then sorry for wasting your time, but come on! that's fascinating! goodness only knows how much i love art history for moments like that. aesthetic rescue!!!
Monday, May 3, 2010
Recent Things
1. I cannot believe it is already May! This semester is going by INSANELY quickly!
2. I cannot believe it was 9 degrees (C) today! It's May for goodness' sake! What is this below 50 weather and rain and wind and HAIL? Are you kidding me? HAIL??!?!?!!
3. I am addicted to How I Met Your Mother! What an AWESOME show! Yeah. Self-five. Whaddup.
4. umm I have an exam tomorrow morning at 9:30 with my least favorite professor of my least favorite class on my least favorite subject. Yeah, studying for that one is going just greeeaaaattt! It is actually a make-up exam the prof begrudgingly gave me after I like begged and begged because the real exam was my first real day of the stomach virus. I think I might bring my doctor's papers to show her just so she knows I mean business when I say I spent all day with a 39+ fever (102+) and "stomach issues." Just the sight of this professor makes me actually want to projectile vomit, into her HAIR, or her stupid little pointy mouse face! Grrrr! She also has the longest name ever and her email, instead of initials or anything, is her entire double hyphenated name. That's right, both her first and last names are hyphenated. Silly France.
5. I miss American food.
6. Spring break in England was AMAZING! but more details on that later (and yes Celeste, Hall really was THAT good. food comas ensued. also, drunkeness and drunkenly kissing boys. and wearing short skirts. but like i said, more on that later.)
7. is this semester really winding down? will i really have to leave France? NOOOOO
8. Parts of me can't wait to leave France (haha conflicted much internal dialogue?) and spend my summer travelling with Amanda and then working on my crafts at home to supply Crafty Chatton/Cultured Bitch, me and Taylor's etsy shop! (theoretical etsy shop!) wooo! (theoretical woo!)
9. I have the attention span of a chicken.
10. Monique made an omelette for dinner tonight. A semi-runny omelette. I managed to eat it and just tried to think of the alphabet backwards while doing so instead of going BARGGGHHHH YUUUURRRGGGHHHHH THIS IS DISGUSTING I HATE YOU EGG WOMAN! I dont really hate her, only when she cooks me eggs. you all know how i feel about eggs
11. british baked goods --> happyface
that's it for now!
2. I cannot believe it was 9 degrees (C) today! It's May for goodness' sake! What is this below 50 weather and rain and wind and HAIL? Are you kidding me? HAIL??!?!?!!
3. I am addicted to How I Met Your Mother! What an AWESOME show! Yeah. Self-five. Whaddup.
4. umm I have an exam tomorrow morning at 9:30 with my least favorite professor of my least favorite class on my least favorite subject. Yeah, studying for that one is going just greeeaaaattt! It is actually a make-up exam the prof begrudgingly gave me after I like begged and begged because the real exam was my first real day of the stomach virus. I think I might bring my doctor's papers to show her just so she knows I mean business when I say I spent all day with a 39+ fever (102+) and "stomach issues." Just the sight of this professor makes me actually want to projectile vomit, into her HAIR, or her stupid little pointy mouse face! Grrrr! She also has the longest name ever and her email, instead of initials or anything, is her entire double hyphenated name. That's right, both her first and last names are hyphenated. Silly France.
5. I miss American food.
6. Spring break in England was AMAZING! but more details on that later (and yes Celeste, Hall really was THAT good. food comas ensued. also, drunkeness and drunkenly kissing boys. and wearing short skirts. but like i said, more on that later.)
7. is this semester really winding down? will i really have to leave France? NOOOOO
8. Parts of me can't wait to leave France (haha conflicted much internal dialogue?) and spend my summer travelling with Amanda and then working on my crafts at home to supply Crafty Chatton/Cultured Bitch, me and Taylor's etsy shop! (theoretical etsy shop!) wooo! (theoretical woo!)
9. I have the attention span of a chicken.
10. Monique made an omelette for dinner tonight. A semi-runny omelette. I managed to eat it and just tried to think of the alphabet backwards while doing so instead of going BARGGGHHHH YUUUURRRGGGHHHHH THIS IS DISGUSTING I HATE YOU EGG WOMAN! I dont really hate her, only when she cooks me eggs. you all know how i feel about eggs
11. british baked goods --> happyface
that's it for now!
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