Francophile in the West

Living in the same city as your boyfriend for the first time in your life is a weird and wonderful thing. I have SIGNIFICANTLY less time to myself now, which is both good and bad. And I'm getting used to 35-minute bus rides (mostly bad). However, I have been keeping up with my homework and reading for my classes (so far). Work is slow at the ISS desk, but things will heat up from now until the end of February for the Campus Visit Program, seeing as we're starting the hiring process and we have to be finished with everything before finals week. I'm pretty positive I'll have an entire two weeks of Spring Break this year, which is amazing. With any luck, I'll be graduating by next year's Spring Break! I guess it depends on whether or not I only take one class during fall quarter so that I can work and go to Thailand for two weeks... In other exciting news, I've been living with $6 to my name for about a week now. Not fun. But I get paid on Monday, thank the Lor

I know it's been a while since I last updated, so here's what's been going on: I made it back to the 'Couve safe and sound, had a great Christmas with my family, spend the New Year with Kris and his mom and brother up in Bellingham, and rolled back into Seattle on Sunday the 3rd. Classes and work started up again on Monday and things have been moving along at full-speed ahead! I'm taking French Culture to the Revolution, The Modern Novel, and Literature of the Americas this quarter. Great classes, but it was stupid scheduling on my part because all three are ridiculously reading-intensive. Yikes. I'm in for a busy quarter. I guess I'd have to get it done eventually, it's too bad I decided to do it all at the same time! It's been wonderful to be back in Seattle and up here at the UW. I sure missed it here. I keep bumping into friends and co-workers, and everyone is really excited to see me and glad I'm back and can't wait to hear stories and s