Creepy

French men could stop being so creepy. Honnestly. I am not that attractive. Please put your eyeballs back into their sockets and shut up. Christ alive! I am wearing a skirt that goes past my knees. Nothing scandalous. Get over it and shut up. Please. I was having a nice evening walk until I had to deal with all of you people. Bah!

Stage? Peut-etre

For as much as I hate Sciences-Po I love their intersect website. I think I might be able to find something to do this summer from it. I will start looking at that more frequently and sending out my French CV. I think I could find something worth while this summer. *GASP* I really hope I find something worth while this summer. Basically the only cool thing on my resume is Sciences-Po and that really only carries weight in France. I would really like to have an intersect to boost the ol' resume and grad school apps.

Today was gorgeous. I read in le jardin de Luxembourg today. It was quite nice. I also found the world's cutest shirt. I didn't buy it but I think I might go back and get it. Otherwise I am just putzing around and not writing my fiche. Hooway productivity.

I have also decided to not give a shit anymore. I thought I decided that awhile ago, but didn't. I have a vision and I want to see it to fruition. Paris is wonderful and Pittsburgh is going to be good. It will be interesting how everything develops, if you will, next year. Nicholas wrote to Philippe saying the weirdest thing about going home is that you just fall right back into your old life. Not that my old life was bad I just think it could have been better. I want life to be better in Pittsburgh. I think it will. I will have an awesome roommate, an awesome boyfriend and awesome friends. The main goal is to avoid all the drama. I hope I can do that. I have managed to do it thus far in Paris, with slight exceptions but everyone needs some gossip every now and then.

I don't know why I am thinking about home so much these days. I don't want to be there right now and I still have 3.5 months here. Crap that is not a lot of time. It sucks that I won't see Phil until then but then it is SO expensive to fly here in the summer. It makes sense to save the money and wait until August. Doesn't make it any easier at times. We have made it this far, 8 fucking months, Christ alive.

Okay, this is just a babbling mess. I am going to go "write my fiche."

Guests

Oi. It has a been a busy but good week. Chris came to Paris for the first time last Thursday and stayed until Monday morning. It was really nice. I hadn't seen him since I went to Italy in October so it was good to see him again. We had a lot of fun. Saw the big touristy things, hung out. I heard the Maria song and we watched Hosed and Drunk Marquee Moon. It is nice to see someone from home every now and then so you can come back to reality in a sense. We talked about next year a lot and are currently looking into getting an HRO. We'll see how that goes.

So Chris left Monday and Dad came on Tuesday. I have to admit I was a bit surprised he actually made it but I am glad he did. He didn't really appreciate it but he saw some cool things and did seem to enjoy himself. He just has a giant mental block preventing him from leaving his comfortable little box. Whatever, at least he left the US and got to see me in Paris and that is about all I can ask for right now. It did get taxing at times when Dad couldn't do ANYTHING alone. It was 4 days of constant handholding. But it is done and I hope Dad really did get something out of this trip.

It was nice having guests but I am a bit tired and run down and rather congested. I have work to do but lack any motivation plus it is rather nice outside. We'll see how much work gets done. Christa comes on Thursday so I need to get some stuff done before then. She will only be here 2 nights so I will still have some time to get some stuff done over the weekend. I would like to be able to be finished with everything for my soc. class by the end of next week (aka a week early). I think that is doable. If I could get this second fiche done this weekend I will be comfortably ahead of the game.

It is bizarre that I am in the middle of all of my work and everyone at Pitt is done. So weird. Less than 2 months until I am done and less than 4 until I am home. Still have no idea what I am doing this summer but c'est la vie. Not too worried about it at the moment. I only have 6 weeks really so if nothing happens I think I will stick around Paris a bit then head home early and look for a place to live in Pittsburgh. I just need to make sure I don't end up spending too much time at my house. I think I can handle it.

Hopefully motivation will find me soon. Same with clear nasal passages. At least I get to sleep in tomorrow. Thank goodness.

Chris smelling the flowers in front of the Sexodrome.

Trees, they produce the air that we breathe.

Whilst Chris was visiting Paris we decided it was necessary to stalk Mr. Jarivs Cocker of Pulp fame. You would think a famous person would not have their name in the phone book. So off we went to his apartment in a vain attempt to see the singer of "Common People" in person. We stuck around for a bit but no Jarivs. Sad. Maybe one day....Anyway this is Chirs with a stupid tree in front of the Cocker residence.

doot de doot doo doo

I am kinda bored. Both the roommies are out of town so I am all by my lonesome. It is nice having the place to myself every now and then and with 2 roommates it happens less and less. Last night I went out with Judith and her friends and it was quite the experience as trying to understand French when people are talking about other people and stories you don't know at all. But it was still fun. I have an expose I should be working on but it is almost done so I don't really feel the need to especially since it is for Tuesday but I do need to get on the ball as both Chris and then Dad are visiting so Spring Break = no time to do actually work. After Spring Break I have a bunch of things to do so I don't want to be uber stressed in a couple of weeks. I also realized that I will be back in the States around August 14thish. That gives me two weeks before classes start so that I can get my shit together, have some AWESOME outpatient surgery and still give me time to get settled in Pittsburgh, where ever our house/apartment ends up being. So now the question is what am I going to do between June 28th and August 14th? I haven't the foggiest. I e-mail someone at Euronext, the pan-European stock exchange, so maybe something will come of that. I am also still waiting to hear back from the college prep program. I would prefer to do something that would beef of the ol' resume and bit more but at this point I just want to have a legitimate reason to stay in Paris. Hopefully I will know something about that soon. I hate this not knowing thing. Especially since the end of classes is growing near. There is only about 2 months left at Sciences-Po. That is just nuts. I can't believe that it is close to done. I have been in Paris for 7.5 months. It doesn't seem like that at ALL. I just got here yesterday it seems. It is also weird because I am in this weird in between mental state. I am still very much in Paris but I am preparing for my return to Pittsburgh at the same time. I have my schedule for next year, I know who I am living with, I have Phil to go back to. So knowing kinda what my life is going to be next year can make dealing with Sciences-Po bullshit a bit harder. It is just kinda weird. The big thing is knowing I get to be with Phil again in 4 months. I just need to figure out what I will be doing this summer and I will be okay. This in betweeness, I really don't know what is going to happen thing is rather annoying. Still so weird thinking that is adventure is slowly starting to come to a close.