Today is October 3st.  Which means I have all of today to finish blogging about my trip before NaNoWriMo starts and I have to be punished.

I really hope my computer/Internet decide to cooperate today.

So Ariel, Donovan, Kevin, and I took the last possible train back to Paris.  Which means that it was dark and creepy by the time we got back to Paris ( Read more... )

Well.... poop.

I didn't mean to take yesterday off.  Really.  I promise.  I don't even know how it happened.

Oh, wait.  I do.  Blame Harry Potter.  I went and saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 last night and then came home and crashed.

Dang it.  In order to make up for it, prepare for a (semi) long post.

Anyways, we left off on the Sunday ( Read more... )

Today, I'm very homesick for France.*

I'm drinking B-grade coffee, the weather is acting like it wants to be like France but it won't commit, and I've lost most of my ability to speak French easily.

I can still speak French, but it's painful, and hard, and I'm only really comfortable speaking French with a few people (i.e. my friends from the trip).

I ( Read more... )

I have a paper due tomorrow.  In less than 24 hours.

Normally, this wouldn't be a problem.  That's why I haven't done it yet.  Unfortunately, over the weekend, when I was prioritizing my homework, I forgot to include "this is the class that I hate the most and all of the readings are incredibly boring and I rarely take notes in class" next to the ( Read more... )

The more I write about my summer, the more I realize that I don't want to write anymore.  And it's not because I don't want to share all my stories with you.

It's because, as soon as I'm done, that's it.

There's something special about reliving something for the first time that's almost as good as doing it in the first place.  After re-telling it the ( Read more... )

Twice in one week!  Woo!  Progress!

Some things that are probably important to know about this trip that I haven't mentioned.
1.  We haven't been sleeping much on this trip.
        Specifically, we've been getting up really early (6 A.M., roughly) (which is really early when you haven't become a morning person yet and you're still struggling against ( Read more... )

There is a reason why I love NaNoWriMo.  Actually, there are many reasons.  The first is that it's such a huge and daunting task that when you finish, there's no better feeling.  It's a huge relief.  My self-confidence has never been higher than the day I finished NaNoWriMo (until of course, I finished my novel several weeks later).


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If I continue to follow my pattern so far, I will finish blogging about my time in France sometime at the end of next year.  2012.  As in, 18 months after I arrived back in the U.S.  In fear of family rioting, the apocalypse, and my memory issues, that isn't going to happen.*

One of the best things about college is that you learn a lot about ( Read more... )

Do you remember that one time, where I tried to blog about my summer in France and said I was going to post several days later and then didn't?  Yeah... Sorry about that.  I genuinely did not have the time to blog for about a week, and then I could argue that I was adjusting to the new semester, and then I run out of excuses.  Frankly, I just didn' ( Read more... )

I have the worst memory.  Seriously.  I am also very self-indulgent and pretty self-centered.  (Hopefully it's not the worst kind of self-centered-ness.  I do try to think of other people when I do things.  Usually.)  I know these things.  That's why I make lists and try to write everything down.  Unfortunately, when I forget to write things down, ( Read more... )