Last night I returned from nearly two weeks "abroad". My students have a vacation, so I do as well. More information (and photographs) will follow.

Essentially, my friend Jenny and I went to Bruges (that's in Belgium!), one of my favourite towns in Europe. Absolutely gorgeous. We also watched the amazing film In Bruges in Bruges.

We then went on to ( Read more... )

Apparently my French accent is really hard to place, now. I've spent four months (halfway point in this job, huzzah or boo!) here in Normandy, so my accent is slowly kind of normalizing into a Norman-ish French. However, I still use Québecois or old-fashioned words on occasion (even things like "auto" for "voiture" ("car") and such). My ( Read more... )

My apartment has a poltergeist. We call him Steve.

Three light bulbs burnt out in my first week and a half here in this apartment. No big deal, I thought, after the first one. The apartment has been empty for at least three months, right, so the bulbs are just reacting to the initial shock of having electricity running through them again. (I reason ( Read more... )

I... have graduated from university.

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 Guys, I... I think I just finished my thesis.

\o/

There are no more notes to myself, no more highlighted bits, no more "well, I should probably cite this sentence as well, just to be sure"... I did all of that today. It's pretty much done. Even the conclusion is looking so much nicer. I may rework it a LITTLE, but tomorrow, after I've slept on it ( Read more... )

 So after this past stressful week... I'm finally getting stuff done!

( Things I have achieved )

 So beckyh2112  got me thinking about lists, and organizing my thoughts and goals, etc., in time for the new year. :)

Awesome things that happened to me in 2010:
-For the first time in my life, I managed to actually KEEP a new year's resolution! This bodes well for the future. I vowed to take up push-ups: I began in January barely able to do one set of five ( Read more... )

 I was really stressed out yesterday. Right now, I'm just focusing on getting through this semester, and finishing my degree, while still trying to find stuff to actually apply for. As of now, I have no clue where I will be in September.

So for now, here are a couple things to distract you (that may indeed even prove useful!)

-Ten Words You Need To ( Read more... )

 My facebook status this morning read "in contemplating the pile of books sitting next to my desk, ready to be poured over for three separate papers including a 50 page thesis, I have had the sudden urge to flee the house. >_> Instead, I remain here, trapped and weighed down by several large hardcover books. Besides, they're in between me and the ( Read more... )

 So after I posted that list, yesterday, of all of the things I have to do in the coming months, I felt incredibly stressed out. I made tea, and that made me feel better, and then I did some more homework, which could have made me feel worse but at least I was getting stuff done... And then I remembered this photo that Erin took of me while I was ( Read more... )