My life is consumed with francais, francaise, tout francais, toute francaise, tout tout tout... good god, It's only Tuesday and I'm so tired. I'm a wimp--8:00-5:00 pm is tiring for me. I used to be able to do 4:30 pm to 2:30 am in the bar without a quiver. Dude, French degree, research for French grad school, French Club and working for the ( Read more... )

Dude, it's been hitting me like a chronically falling proverbial anvil: our country is ugly. Soul sick. Something is very, very fucked up. I'm not just talking about racism, hurricane-related quandaries, gas-guzzling SUVs and soaring oil prices, let alone the excruciating downfalls of 'tenure' at academic institutions.... but all of those ( Read more... )

When I called Comcast to set up my "high speed" internet, I claimed to be confident in setting up my own software after the cable guy had set up the hardware. Well, I knew that wasn't actually going to happen. And I'm not ashamed to say that I shamelessly flirted with said cable guy after I messed up the install and he stayed for an extra half ( Read more... )

Sing it with me: I getta move! I getta move! I love pinot grigio... oops, that slipped out. Odd thing to do, check livejournal when I'm a little tipsy. Well, two glasses of wine, sadly enough, does that to me. I'll sleep like a log tonight and smile in the morning about vivid dreams which challenge me to make reality more interesting and ( Read more... )

Oh, sweet God, I cannot wait to move from home. I woke up this morning, after only a few hours of "sleeping it off" from after last night, to my Mom pulling vines off the side of the house, right outside my open window. After the weird and oddly loud noise didn't stop for over an hour, I went down and requested her to stop please, for the love of ( Read more... )

So, according to Hobbes, one's dreams are directly affected by what one has eaten before sleeping. Holy shit, I'm never eating apples and cheese and passing out again. I just had the scariest dreams of my life, which felt like they were never going to end, b/c I took an afternoon nap and forgot to set the alarm. Ugh. It's funny, since I stopped ( Read more... )

OK, wow folks, drunkin dunkin' LJ style... oh dear. So I'm a little tipsy, searching to know why I love daquiris so much... oh sweet sweet rum.... anyhow, perfectly safe, chez mon cher ami Ben, watching Aviator. Never watched a movie drunk before. Fascinating. It's amazing. I woke up happy this morning after my first real good night's sleep ( Read more... )

OHMYGOSHIFUCKINGLOVEMYGIRLS!!! Sorry, that had to be done. I want to thank Lisa and Genevieve for coming to the armpit of the Midwest to visit me and for giving me the best birthday ever. I typically have had the world's worst birthdays... marking major and odd illnesses, family members and boyfriends forgetting, loved-ones leaving my life, etc ( Read more... )

Sweet lord, there's a cassis lambic, yes oh yes, at the Dundee Dell (that'd be my bar...). Come one come all, try it ( Read more... )

Hi, I'm back in the Big 'O'. It's official. It's really official b/c I'm used to the time-change, I'm adjusting to the food, my English improves daily as my French goes down the proverbial tube, and I'm okay with it all. I'm having a highly productive day. I had the talk with my papa, "the talk", about how his mistakes of the past are not my ( Read more... )