please turn off the bollywood music.

(thanks to angela for our power animals! they're seeing the world...)

today is bea-utiful. beautiful.

after a couple days of grey drizzle, things seem to be shaping up weather-wise for a sunny 17C, or 71F for all you at home.  it makes it hard to concentrate of work instead of simply spending everyday going for walks and eating croissants. very difficult indeed.

(this is the little park closest to our apartment)

besides school, however, things seem to be going well.  when i'm in the sunshine, i do like this city quite a bit, the little streets, the canal and river, thousands of boulangeries, and the language too.  this is somewhat of a relief.  however, it's difficult to explain how much i'm looking forward to the end of school.  travel plans are solidifying and it looks like i'll be train-tripping through france to barcelona (gaudi!) then flying to morocco and doing who knows what. i am so so so excited.  and finally, summer is turning into something real, filling with plans and maybe a few pipe-dreams. elaboration on this would take pages and pages.

here, recently we haven't done too many crazy things, but annie's looking fierce with a new hair color and new glasses.  when we're not pretending to try to do work, we've eaten ice cream and seen an amazing show of William Blake. good art and good food.

(William Blake = great)

(Annie Stephens = foxy)

(Berthillon ice cream = delicious)

That's pretty much the summary (i almost wrote "summery." this probably indicates something.)