Playing hooky

Today, I am playing hooky. Partially playing hooky, anyway - my French final (that I'm still studying for) is this afternoon. Besides, I'm playing hooky to do a number of things, like:

1. Get my life in order! It's working. Kind of. I'm packing up things and books that I think a friend of a friend might need/want when she's in Paris, and emptying out my fridge. I still need to figure out if I want to take digital or, um, not-digital (does anyone know what non-digital photography is called?) photography classes at HPAC.

2. Write my B.A. I whine about this a lot, I know, but I'm still having trouble penning ideas on a page. There is something gruesome about thinking of thoughts as butterflies; I am some kind of crazed lepidopterist pinning spectral butterflies to my computer screen. I'm also being pickier this time around, so each sentence is taking forever to form.

3. Study French. Right...

4. Sleep - I *finally* got a good 7 hours! YES!

It's amazing how confidence boosts come in the strangest places. I took my cinema final yesterday, which consisted of watching thirteen 5 minute shorts (our DVD of "Visions of Europe" was scratched, so we only watched half the movie. I really, really, really want to watch the rest of it when I get back home!) and writing 3-5 pages about it. Given that I had French that afternoon, I spent 2 hours on the final... and ended up writing 4.5 pages. I suppose that means that, verbosity-wise, I am back! Hopefully, the analysis portion of my writing/thinking will return soon...

I'm also going to hope that I'll be able to fudge my way through this French final the same way I did my midterm. As in... make something completely random up for the essay portion and hope my teacher doesn't notice the amazing amount of filler material on the page.

I need more adventures this weekend. In any event, I'm headed to Berlin next week for some more quality sister-bonding time =)

xoxo,
D