My parisien family

Meet Brigitte and Rica, my host mom and the Japanese student who lives with us.
I'll put up more pictures as soon as i can. :) 

France 2 (not the french television station, just my second post...)

(a joke no one will get but me.) (all the TV stations here are FR1, FR2, FR3, FR4... etc.)

anyway. france is fun still. i still feel bad because i have to pictures to post cuz i cant connect my camera (hint hint, zach?). but life has been pretty great.

i guess a lot of people in our class dont have the best families to live with, or like they don't feed them very well or dont really take time to talk to them. whereas our lady is absolutely insane. in a good way. she's like 51 or 52.... and she dances and sings all the time (like marilyn monroe most frequently, "i love be love by you.... la la ... i love be love by you... la la... boo boo bee doo!) and she has shown us her entire collection of lingerie, which was.... interesting. She admonishes me for wearing too much black... and she has this insanely raspy voice because shes smokes like a chimney a lot of the time. Her two sons come by sometimes, Gyom and Jerome, they're pretty fun. and then her husband Richard is around monday-wednesday nights. Then he leaves for the country for the weekend. but he cooks when he's home. And she leaves for the country saturday afternoon so were on our own (me, morgan, and the japanese girl Rika who we love, shes hysterical) every weekend, which is actually really nice because then we can have a little break from just the stress of living with people who you are trying subconciously to impress or something. But Brigitte is super nice and we have these really long 4 course meals every night where she talks a lot. its been really good for my comprehension of french. my spoken french is definitely getting better too, but not as good as my listening because brigitte does more talking than listening. :) and next friday night we're all going out dancing with her friends for her birthday, which should be a blast. i don't think i can feel silly or embarresed if brigitte is dancing next to me. so. thats all pretty awesome. and i really like moran a lot as a friend/roommate. i get along with people pretty well when i live with them.

um.... nutella crepes are insanely addicting.

it is impossible to be in paris and not be affected stylistically. i feel bad because i've spent more money on clothes than i meant to, but i finally feel like i fit in and i don't need to buy anything else to complete my new "ensembles." and i bought more outfits in colors, so brigitte will be happy. anyway. i apoligize to my parents for spending more money than i should have, but i think i don't need to buy anymore clothes now, so thats good. thats a craving thats been fulfilled. alors, bien.

and i'm planning on going to rome the first weekend in november and hanging out with becky a bit. i think i'll end up flying there, and then taking the train back, which is kind of the best of both worlds, yeah? yeah.

ok. this is long and my internet time is running out. i'll try and write more often, even though i have no pictures. and if you would like to recieve a postcard from me, and i havent sent one yet or havent told you i'm sending you one yet, send me an email (rileyk@u.washington.edu) with your address and i'll try and get one to you:).

OK. i love you all and hope you're having fun, too.

OUI OUI, PARIS!

bonjour tous! i'm about finished with my solitary stint in the city of lights. i wanted to have a picture to post, but my camera is not playing nice with my computer, so that will have to wait. this isn't going to be a very long post, either - i'll write more later for those of you who care to read.

Paris is.... cool chic impressive old overwhelming stressful beautiful friendly complex. i do totally know now that if there is only one other person in the room you are walking into, you have to say "bonjour." its polite. and then you say "bonjour" or "au revoir" again when you leave. which is nice. and the city is very very safe, there are little to no homeless people or beggers, so i never feel afraid or creeped out. actually, the part of town where my hotel is probably the worst area i've been in so far.

and i dont think the city smells. yes, occassionaly if you go past a dog park then it stinks to high heaven. but as a whole, its an impressively clean city.

ok. i will hopefully post something much longer and more illustrated within the next couple of days. salut.

hhhhhaaaaaaaaaalaska!

yay for being home. and in kaladi using wifi. yay for working and making art and hot chocolate made with enough chocolate. tis good. and watching shit loads of movies. and 'the office' - the original british version, which is, yes, clyde and jessica, very very good. and not even too uncomfortable for me to stand. anyway. jessica- i think i lost your email again. maybe i will send you a text message and ask you it and the address of your blog. yes. sometime soon here i will do that. so. i dont really have anything exciting to report. i've just kind of been hanging out at home and doing art/watching movies.... relaxing. which has been really really nice. and i start work today. which will be cool, too. i'm not working too much, so that should be nice. and if i actually sell everything in my show (which is unlikely), i could make like $500. wouldn't that be awesome. yes. yes it would.

ok. not much to say else. but man its been a long time since i read a story :(. will have to do that today :) . ooohk. (<--- the everlasting remenant of my strange friendship with bobby utrup. i tend to write "ohk" instead of "ok.") (at least online.)

bluaaaaaahhhh

apparently thats how i feel right now.

so.... lately:

-jenn came to visit, we (JHR) went to a little awesome italian restraunt monday night and had a really long relaxing dinner, like 3.5 hours or something. but it was way cool. and then yesterday we.... went shopping downtown a little and bought my cat a new carrier for his trip home. she left for LA this morning.
- i've skipped more french than i care to think about. Mostly just from other constraints on my time and stuff, like today i worked in the coffee stand instead of going to french... but it was the day after a test, so i figured it was ok. (i've "figured" all my absences are "ok" but i still feel bad in a cumulative sort of sense.) But apparently i did really well on my oral presentation, because i got a 98/100. i got a 95 on the first one, so yay for improvement.
- i alternate between feeling okay and not stressed out and feeling crazy because i have SO much to do before i can go home in TEN DAYS. FUCK. now is a stressed time.
- i'm in a jazz history class with only 8 people, and 2 teachers. its really fun. but i wish i had more time to invest in it and the reading/listening, etc. but we (RJy) to Tulas sunday night and heard a jazz band (i had to write a paper on a concert), which was fun.
- and Don, my ex-trombone teacher and current jazz teacher, is moving to denmark in 2 weeks- which means he'll totally be there and doing concerts while i'm in Paris. So we're gonna meet up or something, which is cool.
- i finally got my living assignment for paris ! yay! i'm going to live in this building:



which is here:



So thats all very exciting. And i'm going to be living with a family, i haven't called them yet. And another girl who's a freshman who likes to snowboard, etc... but she's been in paris all summer with another program... so i'm not sure what to think about all that yet.

aaaaaaand. tonight is project runway! yay! and i've frozen some koolaid for myself, so i'm so looking forward to that. yay for frozen super kool-aid!

bye everyone. i'll write again when i get back to alaska and have time to think.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!

my hands are ice cubes

not something i thought i;'d be saying anytime saoon,as were having a heat wave here. but i've been sitting in the server room at APL for like 1 1/2 hours now. and they have to keep it cool to keep the big servers cool. and i'm dressed for summer. so any studpi like that typos are mst likely from me nt wante=ing to go back and fix things uz that would mean movig my ahands more and that ckind of hurts at the moment.

but other than that things are going well. classes are good. i'm catching up resX preetty well. and thats good. and did i mention there's a hear t wave here ? and that sucks ass. had to buy new fans, and that was good. hhhhh... what else.
i get to go home early today! cuz kiko got sick so my lit class was cancelled. so i just have a little more to do here then i'm going home. to read. and eat food. i like food. i have a hard time eating anything other than bagels in my schedule. but i'm making an effort to cook things. just hard, cuz i usually dont get home till 8 or after.
ok.
done here.
going out fo the cold room.

ahhrrrg

ok. already falling behind in classes. well. only one class. and not that far behind. but HAVE TO catch up this weekend. cuz my schedule is kinda crazy. but i REALLY REALLY REALLY like my classes. i'd forgot how fun and dazing it is to listen to kiko talk and realize that i could never talk like that, especially considering i can barely follow what he is saying. and my other class is on Stories!!! YAY stories!!! and storyboards, but i'm kind of thinking that that is not going to be as hard as they are making it out to be.... i dunno. working in a group will probably be harder than the actual making of the project. ok. i think library time is over. not having internet is doing me good. and i finally got a decent night's sleep last night, which was good. and i apologize for my last entry, which was 1)untrue as i look back over the life of this blog, people do comment at least sometimes and 2)very very hypocritical because i almost never comment on other people's blogs. so. sorry for that. cuz i probably wont be doing any commenting in the next 4 weeks. ok. i think i've said everything i wanted to say. now to hole up in my apartment, eat pizza, and read like the wind about what exactly the definition of a nation is.

(violence out. take that peter.)

no love

for my blog, apparently.

nobody leaves me comments anymore. and i've been trying to be good and update more often. actually, the other day i had a giant entry all filled out to post and then my computer froze. which sucked. but i wasn't going to rewrite the entire thing. too bad for y'all, who are apparently n'y'all, as from you comments, there are none of you.

but. i'm back in seattle, after a not-very-relaxing break in alaska. it was really really nice to be home, but i definitely could have used another week there where i didn't have to do anything, instead of the one week i did have where i felt like i had too much shit to do. not really all that much, but more than i wanted to do on my one week of vacation.

and now i have new classes starting tomorrow. which i'm am getting re-excited about. yay for little classes. hopefully they'll be cool.

and also a pro/con of the summer is that i have no internet hookup in my apartment anymore. which is sad for my internet surfing, but probably a really good thing in the long run as maybe i'll be more done when i'm not constantly in from of the computer. and i can still check my email almost everyday- cuz i go to work and work on UW super-fast internet everyday. so i think it'll be good.

oh. and while i was on break, i got to see Jenn and Haley and Ben. but who did i see the most often? (besides my parents and the staff of Kaladi Brothers) thats right, Josh Northcutt. which was odd. but the Tim Sturm Band played at the Kenai river festival both days, so i saw him then, and then he was working at subway when i went in on thursday and friday, and saturday night i drove past him and waved as he was in the Kaladi Brother's parking lot. It would have been kind of fun to see them at Kaladis- see what they're like in a smaller venue. i think their original songs are all pretty good.

and Saturday night Haley and Lisa and I all went to the Crossing to eat and watch Ben play piano. the food was TaStY. i like steak. i really like new york strip steaks. i get them a lot. and that restaraunt was nice - good to have a decent nice restaraunt in soldotna again. And ben played well. good job, ben. Although, i think i've heard you play all but one of those songs before... but i'm sure if i played there i'd do the same thing.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand.... there's probably more i should say but this is getting long and i need to go buy toilet paper and ramen noodles.

I will survive (Jesus Version)

i like people spoofing jesus.
thats just all kinds of good fun. yay!

ahh, seatac

i feel comfortable in airports. i know how things work. and there are signs everywhere telling you where to go and where to eat and where to take a shit. its nice. and people are continually things. all these things i like. what i do not like is the retarded water-fountains that sound like a bubbling brook or something. i want to shoot them. but i will refrain.

so. finals actually went ok. i wasn't as stressed out as i thought i would be, mostly because i forgot that i'm a terrible studier. i just don't do it. or i do it super efficiently, in like half the time that i planned for. so i did much more lazing about than i expected to.

and last night i went and saw Miiii(h)... which was ok. not the best movie i've ever seen, but certainly full of action. and tom cruise is just a giant bobble head man. whenever anyone asked him a question he didn't want to answer, he'd just bobble his head around, looking strained, instead of answering the question. then people would let him off the hook.

and lately i've been listening to C9 radio out of paris. La Connextion Pop Rock! its fun. i can't really understand what the people say yet, but i catch snippets of it. and they play slightly different pop stuff than you hear here, and the occasional song in french thats cool. everything is cooler in french.

ok. i think i'll take advantage of super-fast airport wifi in some other way now. bye!

AHHHRRREEEHHH?

and that sound probably corresponds to this face:




which is how i feel about finals week.
i had to make myself a schedule just so i could keep track of all the shit i have to do. at strange times. finals, and work, and SIFF volunteering, and making sure things get to where theyre supposed to be, and making sure that there is cat food here while i'm gone... stuff like that. and today, and only today, i have to write my final paper for film class. that definitely should not have been put off until today, but i knew the instant he said "but, really, you can turn it in on monday and i wont take any points off" that this is when it would be written.

and today is jaynes birthday! happy birthday jayne! i made her a cake! i didn't get her a present, and i feel bad, but i did make cake and try to invite her friends over to eat it tonight. so hopefully that goes well and not too long, so i can continue to write my paper.

and work is really stressful at the moment just because i've been working on this one thing that is REALLY STUPID for the past two weeks, and i just can't get it right becuase of silly little mistakes, or because people didn't properly enough explain what they needed. and i feel like my boss' opinion of me is going down. which sucks. i know he just thinks of me as a complete ditz. which sucks. cuz i'm not, not really. not in work and school stuff. ughghg.

ok. going to work on my paper now. hope everyone else is feeling less stressed than me.

DAMMIT.

why does you being angry at me, 2000 miles away, still make me cry?
i feel so stupid.

L'elephant

apparently i have shocked the shit out of everyone i know by getting a tattoo. wasn't exactly what i was going for, but i guess its an unexpected bonus.

Satisfaction

not from doing lots of homework, no.
but i did clean the entire apartment yesterday, and it looks lovely.

no. the main source of my satisfaction at the moment is from pulling out my eyebrow hairs. not with tweezers, thats painful. just with the pads of my fingers... to remove the "loose" ones, so to speak. i do it with my eyelashes too from time to time, but that is more difficult and yields less rewards. so, eyebrow culling is where its at! yeah!

How (and why) To Become A MAC User .... In Just 3 Days!

its late

I love movies.
and Jeremy Irons.
and Bulworth.
and Al Swearingen on Deadwood.
and Bob Hoskins.
and Audrey Hepburn.
and Stephen Colbert.
And the fact that 1/2 the country doesn't get that he is making fun of them.
and diet coke.
and Annette Benning.
and gay people.
and Q-Tips. My god i love q-tips.
and my cat.
and my bed.
ah, yes. bed. thats where i should go.

Lots of Stress, Lots of Fun, not much Sleep

(yes, haley. i will update.)

So. Last weekend i went on a big shopping spree. I didn't really mean to, it started out with me wanting to go check out the new Kaladi Brothers on capitol hill (E. Pike & Belmont), and pick up something for Haley's birthday. And while i was down there i was planning to go to the Hot Topic to see if they had any lovely little dresses.

Which they did. (see my flickr for pictures.) But then I realized i really did need a strapless bra that works- cuz i have lots of cute little dresses that would be worn more often if i had a more dependable bra with which to wear them. So after a Saturday on Capital hill where i bought stuff for Haley and myself, i decided to hunt for a new bra on sunday. at northgate. the mall.

bad idea. But i did actually find a strapless bra that works. Its amazing. i love it.

Anyway, so i ended up buying lots of things i probably didn't need, like JEANS! (omigod!) and a shirt and makeup, and a couple of things that i mostly needed, like running shoes and a tripod and a haircut.

Wait, what's that you say, Riley? Running shoes? You?

Why yes. Running Shoes. Meant for Running. Which I now Do. on tuesdays and thursdays and one of the weekend days. for 2 miles. i'm quite impressed with myself, if you cant tell. And my legs work again, now that i've gone 3 times. I go with Jayne down the Burke Gilman trail. We do not go very fast, but it definitely gets my blood going, which is good.

And i got my hair cut. By a gay guy! Yay! Gay hairstylist! Who turns out to be from the same town as my great-grandmother. He was cool. And he cut my hair awesome! Really well and thorough, which i don't always get because they don't realized how much hair i have and so sometimes hairstylists don't schedule enough time for me and then having to rush through it. But he didn't. I was his last client, so he had lots of time. It looked really awesome. And i like it still cuz its shorter in the front, and i like that length a lot. anyway.

And then this weekend was the 24 hour film festival!!! yay!!! making movies is fun!!!

Theme: "A Life Changing Event"
Prop: a seattle mariner's fanny pack
Line: "Now that the queen is dead, i feel like i can play with free will and abandonment."

And for those of you who haven't seen it yet, i'll just tell you the title:
"How (and Why) to Become a MAC User ... in just 3 days"

Heidi made AWESOME music for it. clarinet and accordian awesomeness. And jayne was my starlet once more. Zach giggled his way through it, but did good, and helped out immensely when it came to actually transferring the file back to the correct format. I'm so happy with it. It was way fun. But i only got like 2 hours of sleep.

So today, then, after turning in our film, i had an energy drink (courtesy of Jayne), and we continued on our way to see TOMMY. which was SO COOL. COOLEST SETS EVER. all mirrors and flashy lights and scaffolding, etc. i love musicals. seeing it really made me want to go see if i can get involved in theater here, at least doing behind the scenes stuff- cuz that would be SO fun. i miss the stage atmosphere.

THEN, we visited our new house again. with lots of people in tow - all candidates for the '5th roommate' position. our new house is so cool. and the girl who lived there said it probably would be fine for me to move in my stuff before i leave, so i can actually go home when my flight is, and not have to wait 2 weeks to go back to alaska.

I kind of had a crazy flip-floppy Super-Tired then Super- Hyper and Silly day. But it was fun. I got all silly and retarded and had fun.

Enfin, j'ai retourne chez moi, and i cleaned up my room and the apartment, which had been left a disaster area from all the filming and general hectic-ness of the last couple of days.

Its been a long weekend, but very fun.

Laxidasical. I'm lookin it up.

because that is obviously not the right spelling.

Lackadaisical.
not spelled how it sounds. and also one of the strangest looking word's i have ever seen.

also, for those curious, its french translation is:
languisant, apathetique.
the only dictionary i keep handy is my F>E dictionary.

and it happened again. I went into the Solstice Cafe, encouraged because i was v. happy with my drink last time, only to get the same half-assed hot chocolate as i usually get. I hate Seattle.
my ordering went something like this:

me: "hi, yeah, i'll take a 16 oz hot chocolate. Extra hot and with extra chocolate."
coffee girl: "ok"
me: "i mean, really, LOTS of chocolate."
coffee girl: (chuckles) "Yeah, we can do that"
me: (nodding my head and raising my eyebrows in a skeptical manner)
coffee girl: "really."

So, i was feeling encouraged. Only to discover that she made my hot chocolate at a very normal temperature (~140 degrees, if that) (i like mine at about 180), and i couldn't taste the chocolate at all. that BITCH. is it really that hard to add chocolate? am i not making my point clear enough? And why don't i just take it back and ask for more chocolate, you ask? Well, 1) because i'm me and i don't like confrontation of any kind, especially in a place where i already feel intimidated because it seems like such an uber-cool college cafe and there are ALWAYS about 3 or 4 of the other baristas standing around, and 2) i've been a barista, and you usually feel really bad when somebody brings you back a drink, so i don't like doing it. Especially in a place where i already feel intimidated. So i take my crappy HC and brood and hold a grudge instead. Much more my style.

I am a crabby grumbly git. I don't like many people. As jayne reminded me the other day. And maybe i should feel bad about that and if i relaxed my standards or something i would have more friends. But i just don't really want to spend time with people if i don't enjoy their company. I dunno. Its hard for me to feel bad about, though I suppose i should.

this was cool, for an internet test

i thought so, at least. i'm glad that my results matched with what i thought. (*cough*JOE*cough*.) And i liked the GRADIATED color picture things.
so, thank you zach.

http://www.okcupid.com/politics

You are a Social Liberal (75% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (15% permissive) You are best described as a: Socialist Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

Unnatural Love

... is what i have for roller coasters. The first ride we went on, i was freaked out throughout the first drop, then i basically proceeded to grin for the rest of the day. Even though i would get about 15 seconds of adrenaline/fear before every ride, that dissapated rather quickly. it was a great day. jenn and i went on every roller coaster that was open except for Superman and Deja Vu, cuz i don't like the dropping for the sake of dropping shit. but it was awesome. and we got the world's best slushies, seriously, so good- i went back and bought another one. totally worth the 5 bucks i paid for it. they had good sandwiches, too, according to jennifer. annnnnd... we failed at firing water cannons at anyone, i got a little sun, and a characature by the strangest man alive. not really, but he was pretty strange. and he made my face look *long,* which no one has ever done before. anyway, it was good fun. and we didn't even get lost on the freeways. and then we were so tired and not hungry when we got back that we decided not to go out to dinner. i do still feel kind of sticky. oh, and we got temporary air-brush-on tatoos. they're cool. jenn got a flower design, and i got a string of elephants. very cool. we tried to get the same kind of tattoos at Concert on the Lawn this summer, but the people kept leaving, so it was nice to finally do that. Oh, and i'm sleeping on a deflated air mattress. They lost the cap. We tried duct-taping it closed, but it was completely deflated by morning, which i was kind of expecting.

ohk. another entry sometime soon on the joys of 38 hour long train rides down the pacific coast.

2.45 am, Sunday Night

woohoo! done with my last paper of the quarter! it actually turned out much better than i'd hoped, even if it is a bit self-negating or something. oh well. i'm happy its done. now i just have a theory final on thursday, and i'll be ALL DONE. wow, wouldnt that be nice? yes. yes it would be.

thin mints are, always and forever, the best girl scout cookie

they really are. so tasty. specially with milk.

this weekend has been semi-productive. did some french homework, which was good, but really have done much else school-wise. but i did finally make plans/reservations to go see jennifer during spring break. yay for six flags! and because its uber-expensive to fly there, i'm only flying one way.... i'm taking the train on the way down! cheap! and fun! i like trains! so what if it'll take me like 35 hours to get there! if anyone knows how to sit on their ass for that long, its me! i actually am really excited about it. i do like trains a lot.

and my mother had her show down in homer, and that went well, so i'm happy for her. her stuff is really neat, even if its not very commercial. and full of strange references to monty python, etc.

and i did laundry today! yay for laundry! clean clothes are good!

An ultra-caffeinated weekend

So... i don't ever remember how it started, tho i'm sure it had something to do with the ridiculously long fanfiction story that i'm in the middle of, but my sleeping schedule got severely fucked up. Severely. (and occasionally I think to myself, gee, my father and mother and uncle read this. maybe i shouldn't cuss. but, my parents know i cuss. So, uncle guy, sorry to burst any bubbles you may have retained about me, but i cuss often and have decided not to censor myself in this.) So i stayed up thursday? night kinda late, i guess? but i know that Friday "night" i didn't go to bed until 7.30 am. then i got up at noon, took a shower, and went back to bed. when i re-awoke at 6, i knew i had fucked myself over and would have to do something drastic to get my sleeping schedule back on track.

So, i ordered a pizza, and went out and bought 7 16oz energy drinks (of the redbull-esq variety), chocolate syrup, and a bag of cheetos. It is now 5.20pm Tuesday, and the last of my energy drinks has finally been drunk. I even have a few cheetos left. And I skipped my french class this morning. And came late to my film history class, because i was still writing my conclusion and printing it out as 3.30 rolled around. But now my paper is turned in, and my french homework is done.

I'm really glad there are only 2 weeks left of classes. I don't think i could manage any more, considering i'm obviously already burnt out. I've just reached that pivital moment in the quarter where I just don't care anymore. I try and rally my efforts, but my attempts so far have been futile. I will still try though. The last vestiges of my sickness are slipping away, so maybe it'll be easier to focus and not be so apathetic.

fun fun fun fun SICK!

like duck duck goose but lamer.

so i had a really good time this weekend. I went to pullman to visit haley for the long weekend. Went to my first "club" ever. Was gay night. they had a drag show that was kind of lame, but still entertaining. That was fun, some questionable guys dancing with us, but Haley pulled us away and we continued to dance on our own. i like dancing. (i especially loved that they played all these club songs and rap/hip-hop kind of stuff that i could kind of dance to, and everybody else seemed to know... and then something like 'footloose' would come on and i'd go insane. haley and i also jitterbugged to 'jitterbug' which was way fun in a 'wow, those girls are dorks' kinda way. :) )

and then..... we had breakfast at a cool restaraunt, and moved haley's stuff from her old house to her new apartment, then went to Moscow, ID for some shopping at the mall. i find it amusing that i live in seattle but i'd rather go shopping in moscow. but i bought 2 shirts that i really like, and perfume (which i'd never bought before) and some super-cool yummy-smelling face wash. thennnnn.... we ate pasta (which i fucked up... pretty sad considering it came out of a box) and manna from heaven (chicken kiev). Stayed up watching 2 Ellen Degeneres comedy specials and Napoleon Dynamite (which i liked way better than i thought i would). Next day, took Sydney (Haley's dog) on her longest walk ever touring the campus, which is pretty. (But has WAY too many gyms/athletic centers. i don't understand it.) We went to coffee with Christa Martin, who i haven't seen since highschool, and then to dinner at a cool restarant, and finally watched Brokeback Moutain. Haley hadn't seen it, but it was time #2 for me. Have to be caught up with my mother. :) Monday we had lunch with Clayton and Ryan MOEN, which was kindof another crazy blast from the past. He really hasn't changed much, which is cool.

So. Tres fun. And then i got home and unpacked and stuff, while noticing my nose was getting stuffier and stuffier, and my thoat had really started to hurt on the plane. Needless to say i woke up today unable to breathe and with a killer headache. Took lots of pills. I can breathe now, but my head is still pounding and gets insanely bad whenever I stand up or try to move around. So, no school for me today. The is the first day all quarter i've missed ALL my classes. usually i feel better enough by midday to go to my film classes, but I just feel sore all over still and can't bring myself to go be miserable outside of my own home. So i'm finishing up some homework and grading FPS packets and spending some much needed time with my lovely cat, who i missed while i was away. I hope everybody else is feeling better than me.

happy valentines day

i'm back to being my usual procrastinating self. paper due friday... and then next tuesday need to have an intro for the next paper. i've got a krap-ass intro to the first one, but thats it. but, i'm making peter a cake for his birthday. thats good. and i've gotten 5 of my fps packets done, so i'm not useless.

i'm officially going to paris in the fall, or, i was accepted at least. so yay for that, even though it kind of scares me.

oh, and i apologize for not sending valentines cards this year. just totally spaced it, so nobody gets one. sorry. i do love you, though. :)

my cat loves Q-tips, too

Jayne made a funny little commic of my cat here. I hope that link works. He does seem obsessed with licking nylon straps.

Last night Heidi accompanied me (thank you heidi) to midnight tango at trabant. I'm glad she came or I wouldn't have gone, since no one else wanted to go. Speaking of Shayna, we need to get her over here to say hello sometime. And she asked me about candy poker. I would like some candy poker please. J? P? H? Anyway. Tango was fun. Not as fun as the first time we went, but still really fun. I like following. Its neat how you can like psychically know where the other person is going to step. only its not really psychic.

Also have lots of homework coming up. Didn't get as much finished this weekend as i wanted, but i wasn't completely worthless. Still have to finish (write most of) a paper for Film Theory, and get most of my paper written for History since I'll be gone next weekend. And then, on top of those and daily french homework, i now have 12 FPS packets that need to be graded by the 24th. So, fun times ahead, i guess.

Oh, and i started my strange job on friday. I'm working in APL for a guy who's working for the neurobiology department. Apparently they're trying to come up with a way to measure the pressure inside your brain without having to drill into it. Which if they succeed, will be really awesome and a big breakthrough and stuff. So thats cool. But i don't really do anything with that. I run errands. Take boxes to the medical center, scan documents, and find things to buy and fill out purchase orders. super exciting. but, it means now that i'll work 11.5 hours a week instead of 6- which will double my paycheck. and that, i am totally cool with. actually, i'm fine with all of it. because i get to listen to headphones while i work, and thats awesome. anything that doesn't have any customer service is AWESOME. but god, i could sure go for a danish donut right now. thank you, cheesily-named bakery extrordinaire!

Sa-mmmm-ich

i think i may actually get some stuff done this weekend. i feel unusually motivated. maybe because i'm going to see haley next weekend, so i need to get things done so i wont be stressing over anything while i'm there. what a smart girl i am. thinkin' ahead, yeah. aaaaaand...

oh. i'm going to make a sandwich. probably multiple sandwiches over the course of the next week. and not PB&J sandwiches, either. real sandwiches. i discovered that i like sandwiches if its just meat and cheese and mayo. and i can do that. nobody can make me add lettice in my own home! down with lettuce and tomato! up with meat! (that was odd.) anyway. i bought all the stuff, and now i'm excited for sandwich making. and i like saying 'sammich' instead of sandwich because of how your lips have to come together to make the mm sound.

i have 30 pairs of underwear. that means that technically, i only have to do laundry every 4 weeks. how awesome is that? but in reality, i only wear about 23 of them, so i have to do laundry more like every 3 1/2 weeks. but still- how awesome is that? i hate laundry. but perhaps thats because i do it so scarcely that when i do it it takes me 4 hours. hmmm.

this post has not been filled with insightful things. but neither has my life lately, so thats ok.

just finished my snapple crack and pop

I guess this won't be too long, as I need to leave for class in a few minutes. Still need to add a sentence or two to my first paper of the quarter. But then its all finito. Its not bad. Or good.

And my ipod needs its battery fixed. Which just makes me uber-sad, because I have absolutely no other mobile music device. I have another little mp3 player somewhere, but i cannot find it for the life of me. walking around without music is much less fun than walking with music. If you know the wherabouts of my little bitty green music machine, you should let me know.

Et, je pense que ma prof de francais aime moi plus maitentant que la commence de classe, qui est bien. Elle corrige les examens bon. J'ai recu un 92 pour mon examen derniere. C'est bien.

Ok. And with that meager warm up, off I go to french class. A bientot.

homework stuff

i pretty much lucked out this quarter and didn't get much homework in my classes. French has some daily stuff, but the film classes have a combined total of 5 papers and 2 tests. not too bad. but i hadn't had to write any of those papers or take any of those tests until now, the 6th week of classes, and i'm remember what a pain in the ass it is to write papers and take tests. Must get back into the habit as I pretty much have to do it every week from now on.

Have spent all night writing my first essay, and while it is not fantastic, it isn't as horrible as i usually feel my essays are during the writing process. Unfortunately, now i'm debating whether i should stay up even later (its 2.20 now) to finish a first draft, or just do it all tomorrow night, along with my cram studying for my one and only midterm. decisions, decisions. probably actually depends more on the caffeine buzz than anything. (had to restock the Diet Coke supply to prepare for the first paper writing of the quarter.) Yay for caffeine.

I had a bunch of links, and other template settings for this site, but they aren't showing up... my computer/webernet skills are lacking when it comes to figuring out html codes.

Goodbye Xanga

I liked xanga, really i did. but i never wrote in it consistently. so maybe this will be better.