I'll ward them away with my frosticles!

Yes, I'm still a bit overwhelmed, but I've realized in these times of crisis that I have a wonderful support system around me. Thanks to those of you who called me to make sure I was okay, or dragged me from my house/bed, or tickled me with LJ comments.

And, of course, things are looking up -- I talked with my French teacher yesterday without really divulging anything about the Sunday previous to the Monday test (I hate making excuses) and, before I'd said a thing, he said that the beginning of my test was quite good, and I'd only lost points at the end where I'd just stopped filling in answers, because it was clear that "I'd just had enough"

SO he's letting me retake it on Friday! Yay! (Kermit Style)

I'm also excited to be planning the Tom's Birthday/Valentine's Party. I'm also going to the opera tonight, so that's another thing to look forward to.

I am doing okay. I'm not sure why it all hit me so hard, but even now, I'm not feeling quite myself and I have this unquellable urge to hole up in my apartment and not come out.

Good news being that I have some homework to do, that being in the apartment will encourage the doing-of.

Bah, I'm becoming incoherent.

What's funny is that I'm also getting the coupled urge to flee travel. To talk to my advisor about going abroad and studying there for a semester or forever. Maybe next spring...

Self-Distraction

In attempts to distract myself, I'm wondering about getting new glasses. My old ones are quite broken, but considering they were from the eyeglass store in Kampala I guess i wasn't expecting them to survive long regardless.

Here is a hackjob photoshop photo of me, wearing noranac's glasses, which I quite like. I figure since we're striving to be one another's doppelgangers, I might as well have the appropriate accouterment.


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Cuteness

stephantravels is finally jumping on the Google Calendar Bandwagon (like a good little lemming), and shared his calendar with me today.

Knowing that he was getting little texts with invites, I invited him to our standard Wednesday lunch. I go do other things, come back to the window, and see this:



I gotta say, not right, but still funny. [ The Yellow is Stephan's calendar]