You know you've been reading too much xkcd when you wake up in terror and hide under the covers for half an hour after having a nightmare about velociraptors.

I am seriously too old for this.

So I finally got to meet some real French people the other day. Yes, I know, I've been in the country for three weeks and all that, but so far I've only really gotten the chance to meet my host mother and my professors. Yesterday, though, there was a petite soirée/mixer for the IES people and the students at the Ecole Polytechnique. There were ( Read more... )

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Today was my mother's birthday, and so we did yardwork for her. I managed to get a fairly bad sliver from a rake handle and whack my head on the metal pointy end of the dormant NordicTrak in the basement, so I decided to try my luck inside. Now, I am hardly one of those domestic goddesses you read of in Redbook, as those who were witness to ( Read more... )