Up up and away for a couple of days

Stressful midterms completed: 4
Amount of funness I will hopefully experience this weekend: infinite
Midterms I still have to take when I come back from weekend of infinite funness: 1

Going to try to find orange liquer for the margharitas I'm going to make for taco night... I already packed for Milan and I am being an ultra minimalist and only bringing the bare essentials, I feel like life is better that way, or at least traveling for a weekend excursion is. I wonder if I'll have a hard time communicating with people because I don't speak Italian. I have a feeling I'll be asking everyone if they speak French and I'll proabably get a bizarre response, because why would they speak French? I mean it's at least worth a shot, those are the only two languages I got, you know besides large gestures and strong face expressions... sometimes that's the best way to communicate, or the worst, I guess it depends on the situation.

Good thing I brough an Italian phrase book with me.

Oh yeah

I went to Giverny the other weekend. It's where Claude Monet's house and gardens are. It's beautiful, especially his Japanese water garden. This is what his house and the gardens in front of it look like.

Just take a deep breath now...

My host mother and brother left for the weekend. So I decided to make dinner in the house by myself for some friends last night. It made me so happy! It almost made me feel like I was back home. Except I was in someone else's house.

I made rosemary chicken, couscous with black beans spinach and lemon and warm spinach salad with pancetta! It was delicious. Then this morning I woke up and quick finished washing the dishes so they wouldn't know I had people over, because I don't know how they would feel about it and I didn't want to talk about it.

I tried to study for midterms today and it just wasn't meant to be. I went to this amazing library and it was horrible, because there's no WiFi. How stupid is that? I was so frustrated it put me in a horrible mood and I couldn't print powerpoint slides out. LIBRARIES IN PARIS SUCK. ahhh ok I just needed to get that out. Much better now. I wasn't expecting to miss the libraries in Bloomington so much, but I do! Too bad they're on the other side of the Atlantic :(

I finally made it back home where I have wifi and I'm going to try really hard to concentrate. I only have my bed side light that works in my room. This could pose yet another problem. I cannot wait till these f-ing midterms are over and this shit is finished. BAhh I wonder if I sound as strung out as I feel. I need help. I don't think I can fix this with chocolate either... i'll muddle through some how.

Boo!

Food for the moment, I can't get enough of: olives
Artist I'm listening to right now: Ingrid Michaelson

I see Halloween decorations in Paris! Huzzah! I thought that no one in France understood what Halloween is, but I'm assuming I was wrong. Not that I'll be in Paris for Halloween.. I am meeting Meggie in Milan! I wonder what they think of Halloween over there... I'm not sure why but I just feel like they should celebrate Halloween there, you know, the architecture kind of looks spooky.. right? I don't know what I'm talking about.

I've been feeling so lethargic lately, I don't know what my problem is. I'm having a hard time getting myself to do anything. Why start studying for mid terms when I can watch another episode of mad men on my computer? At least today I did something requiring physical activity. I don't know what I should I should bring with me to Giverny... Well a camera is a must, too bad mine can't be trusted, I'm definitely going to want to take pictures of this place it's suppose to be beautiful. I think I should go to bed now so I can wake up in the morning...