potential is not given opportunity; it seizes it.

[xbravenewgirlx]

voici est le contract, mes amies!

if i don't get in where i want to go this may, i'm applying, giving mon all, and taking out every crazily, incroyably, criminally high-interest student loan et hauling derrière to the american university of paris.

i have dreamed, lusted, longed for ol' paris since i first discovered precisely what paris was at the age of three! this is absolutely the right thing to do, and this is not scary in the least little bit. this is thrilling, this is destiny, this is right.

i don't know how i'm hoping the decision goes. mais either way,

ALLONS-Y!

~ ~ ~
i envy those
who live in two places:
new york, say, and london;
wales and spain;
l.a. and paris;
hawaii and switzerland.

there is always the anticipation
of the change, the chance that what is wrong
is the result of where you are. i have
always loved both the freshness of
arriving and the relief of leaving. with
two homes every move would be a homecoming.
i am not even considering the weather, hot
or cold, dry or wet: i am talking about hope.

-gerald locklin