What did I miss? I could not go to the Halloween fét- I finished costumes for those who wished them and promptly was sick all over the hall bathroom.

{I am sorry, by the by, to those with whom I share it.)

And it seems there was drama and not of the kind for which I create costumes and stage props.

A general announcement, to anyone who has commissioned me to fashion a costume for him or her, for the upcoming Halloween knoje ( Read more... )

Alas, maman cannot make the journey here for the fèt de fanmi. Am I alone in being alone for this invasion of parents and relatives?

And shall I keep well away, so that others' fanmi do not think what an etranj place this is that they have sent their children? ;)

Ah, well.

I have a room-mate. I was foolish indeed to hope that Those On High would neglect to notice my single status in a double room, but ah, well; these things, they happen. And it could be worse, wi ( Read more... )

So my classes, they are by and large failing to hold my interest, and I have taken to scribbling here and there in my notebooks, little bits of bad prose. Doggerel, the word is. I have begun writing a kont ( Read more... )

My God, it's cold! How do you stand it? I woke up this morning and went outside for my first class and the ground, it was frozen solid. The grass crunched under my feet.

MAMAN, WHERE IS MY COAT?She has sent my cold weather things, maman tells me; I should have them in a few days. Merde, but it's too cold to wait. But my kób is limited. Hmm ( Read more... )

So it seems homeschooling's good enough to get a Creole boy into a somptueuse New England university, mm? Maman she was worried but I told her not to fret so much, that good things come to her bon gason, and I was right. It's all in how you present yourself, and I present well, mmm yes I do ( Read more... )