Hello! Despite all appearances, I did not die in France.

It was not a nice thing to do, straight-up abandoning this journal. A lot of people keep blogs and keep them well, and I love people like that, because it's such an accessible and entertaining way to let others into your life and share your thoughts, but I've decided that I'm just not one of ( Read more... )

Hello world I am in France! I'll post more when I get a chance. Waha!

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Why am I pretending to learn stupid vowely French when German sounds SO COOL.

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SCORE ONE FOR TEAM CONSONANTS ( Read more... )

I got myself cafeinated for the first time in like, six months today. I don't know if it helped me concentrate on my homework, but it DID help me be seriously kind of terrified by this week's episode of LOST.


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I am easily frustrated by real life shopping, but I do love ol' Mr. Internet! I recently found out that H&M, a European store of indisputable stylishness with only a few outlets here in MN, DOES in fact have a catalog website I can browse. It's technically a Norwegian (I think?) site, but they like throwing various English and English-sounding ( Read more... )

I want to be interested in Watchmen, because I trust the people who are saying it's superfantastic, but I feel like I've seen it already. Any kind of "action" movie just feels like the exact same flavor of DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNN EPIC EPIC EPIC IT'S SO EPIC, but all that may mean is that I watch too many action movies.

Hooray hooray, I'm sick.

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This might be the coolest thing I've ever seen. THE MAGIC OF CHROMATOPHORES!

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Guys do you know what I daydream about*? I daydream about building a little portable device with a squidskin display screen, so you can download books/browse the internet/whatever and take it to the park to read and NOT get a splitting headache from staring at a million ( Read more... )

Today, I used a full 25 pounds of clay to sculpt a (surprisingly small) bust on a drawing horse/table that was NOT made for sculpting on frig my legs. Also, this girl in France wants me to draw her a caricature! I'm always surprised to be reminded that France contains 1.) kids and 2.) people who don't necessarily despise Amercians! GO FRANCE!

Today is my favorite kind of day. Even though the ground is gross and slushy, the air is just the perfect temperature, and it's raining. It's wet and perfect. Winter was really bumming me out--I know it'll come back, but after getting some 40 degree weather, I think we all have hope now.

Also, there was a red squirrel in our yard this morning! HE ( Read more... )