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i shook hands with a french ambassador today. turns out the newest potential housemate at the helena house is his daughter. hawley perked up greatly when his wife mentioned building a studio in laos, where the two are moving. i saw them as similar to h & j in that he's prestigious (jim being a professor) and jean-rene a fucking ambassador and the wives follow their husbands to foreign countries and set up studios. it came after the talk of studios, it being that jean-rene very humbly and slyly revealed that he is an ambassador. hawley turned red and proclaimed, "an ambassador in my living room?" to which the couple shook their heads in modesty. like it was kind of a secret. keep it on the dl. the daughter; my probable next housemate, remained silent. she's the product of living in different places. france, minnesota, madison, the uk. having an ambassador as a father and a mother from madison. i didn't like the sometimes snarky-ish responses from the mother, but other than that, she was nice and friendly. i'm rather looking forward to drilling the new housemate with french language and culture questions. i've been wanting to brush up on my french.
so that was my morning.