derniers jours

I spent the day in bed. I needed this.

I didn't wake up until 8:45 this morning and then I proceeded to stay in bed until 9:30.  I went to the kitchen  get breakfast at nine and realized that I'm out of food. My cupboard is my version of completely bare. I found like four cat's tongue cookies and a few smushed madeleines hiding in the cupboard. I put sugar in my coffee to make up for my lack of food. Breakfast of champions. I then spent some time trying to watch an SNL clip before starting my work. I looked out the window when I got to my desk and realized that it had been raining. Good. I can stay inside today. I'm exhausted anyhow. I read an article for histories then started my reading for pop. Up next was studying for French. I got halfway done with my French review before I had to straighten my hair. It was literally driving me insane. I worked on my hair and then finished studying for French.

I ate some nacho cheese with beans (and garlic powder) with chips while watching Judge Judy. It might have only been 11ish, but my "breakfast" wasn't cutting it. I finally got myself dressed and headed it. I needed to get a birthday card for Uncle Alvin and do my grocery shopping for thanksgiving. I went to Hema to get the card before going to Monoprix. I got to Hema and wanted to cry. The entire store is filled with Christmas ornaments and decorations. It made me miss home. I didn't realize it before, but Hema is totally a chick store. All of the cards were covered in flowers and other girly stuff. I found the least girly card (which looks more like a children's card) and left. I went across the street to Monorprix and whipped out my list.

Boy is it hard to shop in France when you don't speak French and have no idea what half of the stuff is. I started off by picking up frozen green beans for my casserole. That was easy enough. Next up was the produce department. I had the hardest time finding the celery and onions that I needed. I found some celery but it was like three euros and I only needed a bit. I decided to give that up and then went to look for an onion. I saw green beans (haricot vert for those of you in the know), but they were 4,99 a kilogram. How much is a kilogram?? I decided to pass on those. I then saw some celery that was only 1,99 a kilogram. I thought that was a good enough bargain for me. I got a baby stalk (which barely fit in the basket because the stalks still had the leaves attached and were really long) and then got a very small onion from a bin underneath.

I was moving along fairly nicely. Next up was the meat department for my pork sausage. I found pork sausage (a little pricy at 2,60), but I wanted to keep looking. There are such cool things in Monoprix! I'd never been back there before. I don't feel the need to do it again, but it was nice to look. I returned to the earlier sausage and put it in the basket. Next I had to look for parmesan cheese. I looked and I looked and I couldn't find it. Then I spotted some cheese in another section. They only had powdered parmesan or a huge slice of it. I picked up some emmental because it was cheap and has a distinctive flavor I thought might be nice in the casserole. Next up was figuring out milk. France sells unrefrigerated milk in opaque bottles but it really freaks me out. I chose to get fresh milk in the refrigerated section. I finally figured out which one was the whole milk and then moved on to find the rest of the list. I then spotted more cheese on an aisle end but it wasn't right. I wandered to the cheese counter but got intimidated and left.

I picked up a box of instant soup packets for lunch before getting sliced bread to continue my hobby of making peanut butter and honey sandwiches. I then grabbed some cat's tongues and a box of chocolate chip cookies and got in line. I was about to unload my basket when I realized that I forgot cranberry juice! I went to the juice aisle but didn't see any cranberry. I had to go off of the pictures of fruit on the labels because I don't know the French word for cranberry. I then wandered up another booze filled aisle and saw cranberry juice! It turns out that the French word for cranberry is just cranberry. I grabbed some ocean spray instead of a French brand that I knew nothing about and then went to checkout. Only 14,94 for all of my groceries. That's how much I spend on food in like two weeks! (pretend you didn't read yesterday's post about the 10,40 burrito).

Next up was the post office to get a stamp for Uncle Al's card. Mom hadn't sent me the address yet so I just got the stamp and left. I came upstairs and watched Judge Judy for awhile instead of finishing my work. Then I read my synecdoche paper and emailed it to myself. Thank god it's due tomorrow. I'm so sick of it. Next was more messing around with Judge Judy and some candy before working on my pop paper. It's even worse than before. God help me. I then took a break to eat some Honey Smacks (that mom bought for me when she was here but I have yet to open due to my lack of milk situation) and watch more Judge Judy. I wasted more time and then worked on my monument paper. That one also sucks.

The bright part of my evening was watching a documentary on Netflix called Advanced Style. It's about older women (50 and up) who are fashionistas in New York City. It was fantastic. Literally made me cry. Of course one of them just had to die during filming. How predictable. She died while in the front row of a fashion show during Fashion Week. She knew how to make an exit. It's a great movie and was really inspiring.

I then took my shower and waited to skype with mommy. I wrote Uncle Alvin's card and then looked up evening cruises on the Seine. I've been meaning to go on one, and I finally found one for a decent price. While researching I got an email from mom. It turns out her internet is down and she couldn't connect to skype. We rescheduled for tomorrow. I don't want to go to school tomorrow. There are so many documentaries that I haven't watched on Netflix.