early morning procrastination

Consequences of Living in Utah:
-Dry skin
-Forgetting what it's like outside of "the bubble"
-Excessive judging
-Dressing in layers (who knows what the weather will REALLY be like any given day?)
-Dressing modestly

Things to Be Excited About This Week:
-Lauren coming to visit
-Watching Pleine Soleil in film class
-Finishing the midterm for French class
-St Patrick's Day (actually it's one of my least favorite holidays...)
-Watching Le Doulos

Jean-Pierre Melville Films I Have Seen:
-Le Samourai
-Bob le Flambeur
-Les Enfants Terribles
-Le Cercle Rouge
-L'armee des Ombres

A New Semester

Classes I'm Taking This Semester:
-German 103 (intensive first year)
-Latin 111 (intensive first year)
-French 453 (aesthetics of crime in french cinema-- kind of a retake)

My Plans For Next Year:
-Plan A: English teaching assistantship in France
-Plan B: Masters program in French at BYU
-Plan C: Job
-Plan D: ?

Things That Help Me De-Stress This Past Week:
-Listening to James P. Johnson, Scott Joplin, and Fats Waller
-Studying for Latin and German
-Facebook (doesn't do anything but make me forget what time it is, but it's a temporary relief)
-Pretending to clean my room, but really just moving things to different places
-Sitting in the front room of my house
-Trying to get in contact with people
-Getting things crossed off my (mostly unwritten) to-do lists