Finir, to finish
Well, at least there are a few things i can cross off my crazy list of what i am doing over the next few days. Working is done, and I accomplished very little according to my end report. My results were pathetically inconclusive but I did make a whole lot of plasmids... woo! Alissa and I had a good weekend, as she put it, "hanging out in Paris." We did go to a museum, and walk around all the major sites, but overall, it was more like just seeing a friend/cousin. That's what I liked about this whole thing. Paris is now a city that I'm very familiar with, and can just hang out in.
I bought some brown shoes that are both good for my feet and popluar around paris, and SHOULD fit right in in seattle... but I'm realizing that all the things I love about Paris won't be the same back home. Yah, there's a ton that I miss about seattle, but not the fact that I can't get to a bakery easily every day, or that I can't get amazing produce except once a week at a farmer's market... and I won't know what to do with my newfound fashion sense (kelly you wouldn't believe how in style I can be now, well, if i go buy a couple more things...).
All in all, I love who I am much of the time here, including my now=valuable alone time. I'm sad that I won't see Rita more after I leave, but I'm tempted to mail her a pink pass to get over to seattle, and to try to manage a trip to South Carolina somehow... I haven't seen Sophie for a while, but not for lack of wanting to, just for a lack of time and a cell phone to contact people when I suddenly find myself in some random part of the city with time... but she'll be coming to seattle soon enough, and if she has time it would be fun to get together. Maybe I can even practice my french with her again ;)
All in all, paris has been great and Italy will be fun (although really HOT fun). London will be a blast with Maria and everything will be GREAT back in seattle. I must start the packing odessy though, wish me luck and have a fabulous 2 weeks if i cannot find any internet.
I bought some brown shoes that are both good for my feet and popluar around paris, and SHOULD fit right in in seattle... but I'm realizing that all the things I love about Paris won't be the same back home. Yah, there's a ton that I miss about seattle, but not the fact that I can't get to a bakery easily every day, or that I can't get amazing produce except once a week at a farmer's market... and I won't know what to do with my newfound fashion sense (kelly you wouldn't believe how in style I can be now, well, if i go buy a couple more things...).
All in all, I love who I am much of the time here, including my now=valuable alone time. I'm sad that I won't see Rita more after I leave, but I'm tempted to mail her a pink pass to get over to seattle, and to try to manage a trip to South Carolina somehow... I haven't seen Sophie for a while, but not for lack of wanting to, just for a lack of time and a cell phone to contact people when I suddenly find myself in some random part of the city with time... but she'll be coming to seattle soon enough, and if she has time it would be fun to get together. Maybe I can even practice my french with her again ;)
All in all, paris has been great and Italy will be fun (although really HOT fun). London will be a blast with Maria and everything will be GREAT back in seattle. I must start the packing odessy though, wish me luck and have a fabulous 2 weeks if i cannot find any internet.