What have I been up to lately? The better question there is actually probably what HAVEN'T I been up to lately. Since my last entry, I have (in no particular order) taken two finals; turned in a 10-page dissertation on the life of Antonin Carême; been back to the Long Hop (a bar) twice; gotten crêpes at 2am on the way home from said bar; visited ( Read more... )

Erm, so about it being May. Oops. Time has been flyyyyyyyying by! It's already been a week since Mom & Aunt Jenny left. That was a great two weeks! I must say I miss eating delicious food all the time. To quickly recap some of the highlights of everything that's happened since then... the day we went to Père Lachaise, the huge cemetery where lots ( Read more... )

Is it really already February? Wow! This week flew by. That was probably aided by the fact that I didn't have class on Monday (and never will! Perpetual three-day weekends, hurrah!). I found a cheap grocery store called LIDL and spent 6,15 € (about $8.25) on milk, grapefruit juice, hand cream, salad, and a bar of chocolate. My whole trip took ( Read more... )

Wow, a lot has happened in just the past few days! On Thursday I finally had my first day of classes. First was poetry, which starts at 9 am. I got up at 7 this week as an extra precaution to make sure I had enough time to get there on my first day. Of course, getting to campus was no problem since I've done that plenty before, but finding the ( Read more... )

Today was a very satisfying day in Paris. It began at the butt-crack of dawn (actually, before dawn, since the sun doesn't rise here until 8:45) when Hilary and I met at Diderot to take care of administrative things. Note that we met at 8 because Anne-Marie told us to be early and that there would be lines. In reality, however, the offices do not ( Read more... )

So, it's been almost a week since I last wrote. Sorry about that! I've been busy with the intro class at Diderot and picking actual semester-long classes to take after that. I'm signing up for more classes than I'll wind up taking so that I have room to drop a few if they don't work out. And let me just say, the registration system in France is ( Read more... )