Hi everyone!
I hope you all had wonderful Thanksgivings. I had kind of a normal day yesterday, but I just finished eating a delicious Thanksgiving meal with fellow EDUCO students. It feels good to be American, with a belly full of stuffing and cranberries and sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. I miss my family at home a lot right now, especially because Aunt Kathy, Uncle Larry, Grandma and Grandpa (and their brand-new puppy!) are all there, but the celebration with my friends tonight was really fun. I brought my mama's cornbread (huge hit), three types of homemade cranberry sauce (also hits) and candied sweet potatoes (hit). Of course I was three hours late from making all of this -- I was on time for one meeting today, so clearly I had to be outrageously late for another event for the universe to fall back into order. Now I am packing to go to the Loire Valley tomorrow, home of all the chateaux. I'll take lots of pictures, and maybe one day I'll get around to recapping all of my trips and posting photos for all of you to see. Maybe.
Ciao!
MK
Friday, November 23, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
I'm alive!
Hi everyone.
I am alive and doing fine. I went to Madrid a few weeks ago. I'm going to London tomorrow.
That's the brief update. The longer update includes the fact that I also have had no Internet access at home for the past several weeks, which explains my blog absence. Hopefully it will be fixed in the next week, but if that proves impossible then I will find another way to blog. Anything for you, my dear friends.
Here in France, we are in the midst of another grève de transportation (a.k.a. strike). I saw a bus driving around yesterday completely empty with a large sign that said "NO PASSENGERS", as if to taunt the masses of people on the sidewalk walking to work. Very funny, transportation-worker-who-was-bored-on-his-day-off. Thank goodness for the English, because they put their foot down at all this French nonsense and the traffic to and from London is unaffected. I've already had one trip delayed due to strikes, and I wasn't looking forward to the prospect of another long wait at the train station. There must some sort of civil disobedience powder in the water, though -- this is the second major transportation strike, the opera went on strike briefly a few weeks ago (causing me to have to change my ticket), and students are striking as well. Luckily they haven't decided to strike at my university yet, but who knows. There's also talk about power and gas strikes, but thank goodness they're limited to only a few hours at a time. Basically the whole world is striking, and I don't expect it to end anytime soon -- Sarkozy's reputation as president rests on his, pardon my expression, brass balls, and if he backs down now he'll look like a pansy. So we'll see how this standoff will end.
I'm going to peace out now to finish my French Revolution essay. If you have any information on politicized representations of the French Revolution in film, you know who to call.
MK
I am alive and doing fine. I went to Madrid a few weeks ago. I'm going to London tomorrow.
That's the brief update. The longer update includes the fact that I also have had no Internet access at home for the past several weeks, which explains my blog absence. Hopefully it will be fixed in the next week, but if that proves impossible then I will find another way to blog. Anything for you, my dear friends.
Here in France, we are in the midst of another grève de transportation (a.k.a. strike). I saw a bus driving around yesterday completely empty with a large sign that said "NO PASSENGERS", as if to taunt the masses of people on the sidewalk walking to work. Very funny, transportation-worker-who-was-bored-on-his-day-off. Thank goodness for the English, because they put their foot down at all this French nonsense and the traffic to and from London is unaffected. I've already had one trip delayed due to strikes, and I wasn't looking forward to the prospect of another long wait at the train station. There must some sort of civil disobedience powder in the water, though -- this is the second major transportation strike, the opera went on strike briefly a few weeks ago (causing me to have to change my ticket), and students are striking as well. Luckily they haven't decided to strike at my university yet, but who knows. There's also talk about power and gas strikes, but thank goodness they're limited to only a few hours at a time. Basically the whole world is striking, and I don't expect it to end anytime soon -- Sarkozy's reputation as president rests on his, pardon my expression, brass balls, and if he backs down now he'll look like a pansy. So we'll see how this standoff will end.
I'm going to peace out now to finish my French Revolution essay. If you have any information on politicized representations of the French Revolution in film, you know who to call.
MK
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