The police came again this morning, asked us a bunch of confusing questions, called some of their superiors, and in the end asked for a phone number they could contact us with. I had to give them my phone number since my roommate's doesn't work. Two minutes after they left, the police commissioner from Nimes called and was like, "Can you come to ( Read more... )

WELL MY ANTHRO FINAL WAS KIND OF HORRIFYING ( Read more... )

So in just a little over a week at this time, I'm going to be in France. I. I don't really know what to say about this. No, I'm not regretting it! I'm really very excited. But once again I move ever further from the nest, and it scares me. I keep telling myself I need to reach out and interact with the French, get some French friends, go out ( Read more... )

The memorial dinner on Sunday didn't. Actually do anything for me. I mean, I ate delicious food and visited with relatives I (now) see more rarely each year, but in the big picture? I don't feel all that different. I still don't want to go to - to my uncle's house; I don't want to go there and realize that yes, my grandparents aren't coming ( Read more... )

shit shit shit

dear self, next time do not do your usual procrastination shtick when applying for the visa

I am so afraid I fucked up and I'll be rejected. also allow 2-3 months fuck fuck fuck how screwed am I

:(

NO I AM A MORON AND THAT WAS THE WRONG PAGE

... BUT I STILL NEED TO STOP PROCRASTINATING.

So huh, it's the end of the year already? Man. As usual, it went by pretty quickly at the end. I think I usually write some sort of thoughtful "what I learned this year" kind of post when this happens, but. Whatever. I'm putting them in bullet points ( Read more... )

Nothing kicks me out of feeling gloomy and anxious than the arrival of the Montepellier handbook. OMG, I am still so excited and I literally squeak whenever I get something in the mail. :DD I'm also pretty nervous about the prospect of spending 9 months in a foreign country but... well. I don't know how I'll feel when I actually get there. Now ( Read more... )

GUESS~ WHO'S~ GOING~ TO~ FRANCE~

I am so excited. Now I have to read all the papers they sent me.

:D

Study abroad is turned in. Now I get to panic until February, oh lovely ( Read more... )

Ann: So I want to go to India over the summer, and take a quest on a mountain where I train with monks in the martial arts and it takes years and years but it's really only been a moment, and then I find myself back on the path and the temple's gone and I get a trenchcoat and a staff and fight crime ( Read more... )