- Presentation went okay. My wish was granted: Gadjigo took hold of some of the things we mentioned and the film crew managed to spin out an hour and a half; which was kind of funny, because the reason we went first was so the book crew would have a longer time to talk about their stuff. My on-the-spot French is still kind of horrible (oh god the ( Read more... )

My university is on strike this week!

I have no classes!

.... dammit I freaked about that commentaire composé for no reason. BAH.

I kind of hope this continues next week, because then I don't have to worry about juggling school, homework, and family visiting.

Oh French. The language where you can accidentally call the president of Russia a whore.

Explanation: If you pronounce "Putine" as "putain" that essentially means a prostitute. o-oh French.

also. I am thinking it over.

Because I really didn't feel like making many one-line posts when I could compile them all in one! And confuse people, because who needs context ( Read more... )

was going to make an emo ranty post about the current state of my brain but ( Read more... )

The good news is that my helmet works perfectly. It's comfortable, it fits, it doesn't bounce around or give me a headache -- in short, I love it and I'm looking forward to wearing it more ( Read more... )

The movie presentation didn't go too badly. My pronunciation is still screwy when I talk in front of a group, but I managed fairly well and Prof. Rivers only corrected me once or twice. It was a relief to get it done! Except I have to write another long speechy thing for Wednesday, on the idea to refreeze the earth... the article itself is very ( Read more... )

I would enjoy Family & Friends Weekend a lot more if I didn't have so much stupid homework to finish. Let's see -- French presentation Monday, finish history text by Monday, French presentation Wednesday, Anthro midterm Thursday... >.> I wanted to see a movie with my mom and aunt -- The Departed -- but by the time we decided to see a movie, the ( Read more... )

Damn, but Ouran is addictive. Of course it's partly my fault for being so weak-willed, in that I had to finish the 26-episode series in... three days while I was writing my paper. As of now I have approximately three of five pages; I need to write about what it meant to be a samurai and "Japanese" in the Tokugawa period. It's easy to define a ( Read more... )

8 Femmes is a... very very special movie. And by 'special' I mean 'really fucked up.' The French have an interesting idea of a murder mystery, one that includes breaking randomly into songs about love. And there are really messed up relationships. The saturation was really screwy on the TV too, so everything was about 5x brighter than normal ( Read more... )