Procrastination...

Should I be writing the intro to my "Pie XI face aux regimes totalitaires" paper right now? Why yes I should. However, I decided that writing in my blog would be much more fun.

First of all, you know how I was like "good thing I got out of Greece, who knows what would have happened next!". Um yes. See here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/world/europe/07greece.html?ref=europe. So glad not to be in Athens anymore!

Second of all, the weather this week has ranged from being 40-55 degrees outside. Why, Paris, why, are you so confused? It is May. It is time to be warm. I've seen people wearing gloves the past few days. That is simply unacceptable. Fix that soon.

In other news, I'm currently trying to write two papers that are both due next Tuesday and Wednesday for my two classes at Paris III. One will be a 20-25 minute speech, and the other will be a 5-10 page paper. Glorious. I'm pretty sure I will not have a social life this weekend...alas. I AM going to see LCD Soundsystem, however, this...Sunday night I want to say? Or maybe Saturday? I'm really quite confused over when it is all happening, but in any event, it should be a good time. I'm most intrigued to see if concert-going in France is the same/different than concert-going in the US (Speaking of which-- got my tickets for Passion Pit June 23! If you happen to be in St. Louis, and like Passion Pit, you should come too!!)

I'm getting quite sick of academics here in France. It's weird seeing WashU people's statuses saying "One week left!!" I want to only have one week left of doing work! But alas, I have like three weeks left of things to do. It's really a good thing, because this way I get to have more time to see Paris and spend time in the city....but with the amount of work that I have this last month, its just so difficult to get out and do things other than homework. Harumph. The good news is that after my papers are turned in and my presentations are completed next week, I will have visitors coming in town that will keep me occupied and semi-force me to get out and see the city! Rachel is coming on Thursday and staying the weekend, and Natalie is coming the weekend after! It should be oodles of fun. I made a list of everything that I still want to do in Paris before I leave yesterday that is like 30 items long and will try to integrate these things into both Rachel and Natalie's visits. For example, me and Rachel are going to the Yves Saint Laurent exhibit at the Petite Palais (reserved our tickets and everything so that we don't have to wait in line for 4 hours!) Huzzah!

Anyways, writing about all the work I have to do and how I only have 5 days to do it reminded me that I should probbbbbably be doing some of that right now. So back to work! Only 5 more days until relative freedom, after which I will only have finals left!