I ate cheap, fake-Asian takeout for dinner tonight, as is the prerogative of students everywhere.  And as I have been spending a rather ridiculous amount of time being scholarly these days, I feel justified.  Classes start at 11 and run until 3:30 Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and til 5:30 on Tuesday and Thursday.  "Lunch" has been redefined as a ( Read more... )

Two for the price of one: your kitchen chores and your upper-body workout ( Read more... )

Today, I met up with my friend Michelle, who's in Paris on roughly the same time frame as me, doing Yale summer session.  Our first stop (and rendezvous point) was the Jardin des Tuileries:


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I'm always passing by places that look interesting, then forgetting where they are.  This afternoon, I paid very careful attention to everything that I thought could come in handy or looked cool on my walk home from classes, and then noted it all down as soon as I got back in ( Read more... )

Back in February, when my original summer plans started looking completely infeasible, I had to sit down and ask myself what I really wanted out of the summer.  Heading the list was "get out of the U.S. for a while."  But also pretty high up was "living situation."  I knew I wanted to live more or less on my own, in an apartment, and get a warmup ( Read more... )

Today can be summed up as follows: food, museum, food, museum, food.  With a lot of walking on each side of all of those.  Paris is wearing me out.  So much to see and do, combined with getting homework done and figuring out the Métro and determining what I'm going to cook when and how.  I think I need another weekend after this weekend.  However, ( Read more... )

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Dear French stove ( Read more... )

Today,  I woke up in plenty of time to eat breakfast, take the metro to the 5th (the neighborhood where most of my classes are), walk around, find a stationer's and buy a notebook, get some lunch, and make my way to rue de l'Estrapade in time for class.  I pulled all this off while walking around with a cute top and skirt and espradilles on, ( Read more... )

Typical facebook posts between me and my friend Elizabeth during the school year: "Dinner in Silliman at 6?"

Current facebook posts between me and Elizabeth: "Hey, let's meet up tonight for a late French dinner.  Outside the Pantheon at 7?"