Oops.

Sorry, loves. I haven't had time for updates lately. Due to the fact that I've been in Greece and England for the past week and a half. But I go back to Orleans tomorrow, so I should have loads of time then to get at least one entry posted. And I know I never even got to the rest of Barcelona/Madrid/Alcala, but I did write a little in my laptop notepad and I've written a little about Athens and London in small notebooks I have in my purse. Hopefully I'll be able to fill in the gaps, but knowing my hippocampus, I may have to invent some things.

Cheers! (can you tell I'm in London?)

Wow....

http://amp.utdallas.edu/?storyid=2091

http://amp.utdallas.edu/?storyid=2201

Apparently UTD-sponsored hate crimes against Catholicism are okay now.

The things I'm missing out on while I'm in France...

ADHD

Today I have the attention span of a 2-year-old on crack.

However, I did manage to create a new super hero in my grammar class:

Buttermantoastfeet (The name is in the works...As well as the hero...He was a little too much inspired by Powdered Toast Man from Ren & Stimpy...Anyway, he has a margarine-shaped head with, yes, toast for feet, and forks for arms! Slogan: "Spreading justice over baguettes of evil!")

And his arch nemeses:

Monsieur Hot Plate (all of my villains have been French lately...hmm...anyway- he has a mustache, but no motto yet)

&

Radioactive Bacon Man (He wears a beret...Slogan: "I'll clog your arteries AND give you cancer!!!")



I need help.



I should really be doing homework right now. But I have a hankering for some toast....I miss the days of toasters. I'm in France and I can't eat French toast. I'm making a skyscraper of toast when I get back. And then I'm going to IHOP at 3 in the morning just because I can.

I can't wait to feel like a college student again!

Time to sign up for fall classes (assuming I don't get expelled for my grades this semester)!

Want to help me pick 'em? Here's a list of everything I'm considering. I'm already pretty positive about at least 4 of these because I either have to take them or I've been waiting to take them since freshman year, but I thought I'd get some perspective from other people before registering on the 13th.

ARTS 1316 DRAWING FOUNDATIONS
ARTS 2316 PAINTING FOUNDATIONS
ARTS 3340 PHOTOGRAPHY AND NEW MEDIA
ATEC 4346 STORY-TELLING FOR NEW MEDIA

CRIM 3324 GENDER, CRIME, & JUSTICE

CRWT 2301 INTRODUCTORY CREATIVE WRITING
CRWT 3307 CREATING SHORT STORIES
CRWT 4354 PLAYWRITING

EMAC 2321 WRITING & RESEARCH - NEW MEDIA

GERM 1311 BEGINNING GERMAN I

GST 4379 TOPICS IN GENDER STUDIES: WOMEN & ALCOHOL IN THE 20TH CENTURY

HIST 3369 UNITED STATES FOREIGN RELATION
HIST 6310 RELIGION IN EARLY AMERICA

LANG 1311 BEGINNING JAPANESE I

LIT 3312 PUNK TO CYBERSPACE
LIT 3315 CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
LIT 4348 TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

MUSI 3382 MUSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOP
MUSI 3385 CHAMBER SINGERS
MUSI 3388 PIANO II

PSCI 3327 AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
PSCI 3328 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
PSCI 4364 CIVIL RIGHTS LAW & SOCIETY
PSCI 3322 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
PSCI 4396 POLITICS OF EDUCATION
PSCI 4396 MODEL UN
PSCI 4396 MOCK TRIAL

PSY 3355 PSYCHOLOGY OF CREATIVITY
PSY 3393 EXPERIMENTAL PROJECTS IN PSYCHOLOGY
PSY 4377 CONFLICT RESOLUTION

SOC 3333 RELIGION IN SOCIETY


I'm kind of hoping I can do Model UN and mock trial without taking the classes. It would just be so much easier because I pretty much want to take ALL of these. Can't I learn to draw, speak Japanese and sing on broadway at the same time as all of my major/minor stuff? Oh man, if only if only.

Parting is such sweet sorrow...

Dearest Pâte à Tartiner,

You know you have been my most beloved French friend from the moment I saw your cherry-red canister modestly resting amidst a sea of pricey Nutellas. In a time when I felt lost and alone after abandoning my poor, innocent Peter Pan, yours was the voice telling me I would eat sandwiches again —unimaginably delectable (and affordable!) sandwiches of strawberries and chocolate hazelnut. It was you who made me feel at home in a land so pretentious, so foreign.

Thus, it is with deepest sorrow and regret that I must end our special love affair. For the past several weeks, unbeknownst to you, I have been planning a trip to Greece — a kingdom filled with radiant sands and sunshine, and consequently trim, nearly nude beach-seekers. Hence, in order to protect my future seaside peers from complete repulsion at the sight of my lumpy bits in swimwear, I’m afraid we must part ways immediately.

It is imperative that you know I in no way blame you for your fatty composition—you would not be the delicacy I adore if you were any different. Truly it is my own severe lack of self-control obstructing our relationship. I wish I could be different, but after a tedious day in that hellish L’Institut de Français, when I see you sitting so cleverly next to my oh-so-soft wheat bread, I lose it.

So you see, we simply can’t be together if I am to slim down to a non-vomit-inducing bathing suit size. If there is any sense of justice in the world, we’ll reunite someday when physical appearances matter not and heart disease is merely a bully of the past. I hope when that day comes, you will have forgiven me and we can put all of this Greek nonsense behind us.

Goodbye, my love. May you always cherish the beautiful meals we have spent together.

Yours apologetically,

Paige