So, I am back a week earlier than expected with excellent news! I haven't slept really since my last post so please excuse any retardedness on my part. I finished my exams and I killed them, with the exception of one truly disturbing oral exam where the professor told me that I obviously have no interest in French culture because, other than the candidates names, I couldn't tell him what was significant about the 1995 French presidential debate. (Expected answer : the debate was uninteresting.) So yeah. Bite me. At least I didn't leave crying like a dozen other students. I tell you, this country makes the US seem like the world's most civilized locale.

In other news, the summer job search is over. I just received news that I will be working for 4 months at the Louvre, which is, like, totally wicked. (I don't know that is some kind of Boston Valley Girl-speak.) I am working in their translation department and--check this out--my contract is for 4 days a week and I get 2 weeks of vacation. Plus, there are statues--statues I tell you!--in my office. Statues of horses, as the wing used to be the royal stables.

Last night, I denounced all of France and all the people who live in this sorry, spoiled country, but today, all (well, almost all) is forgiven. I am off to take a nap before I have to give a class to a spoiled French engineer and then go get nutty with my classmates to celebrate the end of exams.

I hope to be a posting maniac in the days that follow.

So, you've probably all noticed that I haven't been posting. Well, I actually got my working papers and started work on May 2. May is also the month of my finals and I have a concert on June 6. Not to mention my stressful and endless search for a summer internship. To preserve my sanity and be frank with my faithful readers, I am officially announcing a month-long break for Mandounette.

I will be up and posting again on June 7. Be sure to check in then.

Until then, enjoy the wonderful musings of Ctina on her newly-inaugurated blog titled Cafe au lait : where caffeine driven inspiration comes to nap, relax to the ambient sounds of the Erratic Ninja which you can download here, and just stay cool.

See you in June.

Mandounette

Today getting on the metro at Courcelles, I counted 4, count them 4, faux-hawks.