Paris se reveille

Paris se reveille.  Paris is waking up.

Today was another beautiful day, one that hinted the nearness of spring.  The sun shone down brilliantly on the city, warming it and awaking it from its winter slumber.  The locals are emerging from their hibernation, the artists are once again lining the Seine, and the tourists are beginning to flock towards the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame.  Is it bad that I look at these tourists with contempt?  Ah, les touristes, quells idiots!  Ils sont à ma ville, et ils doivent partir maintenant!  (Ugh, these tourists, what idiots!  They’re in my city, and they should leave NOW!)

Such excellent weather is already making it difficult to muster up the motivation to go to class, but somehow I managed to go to French this morning.  After class, I decided to go to Jardin du Luxembourg again, and eventually found a chair after about 25 minutes of looking; the park was absolutely packed.  I made serious attempts to get some reading done, but unfortunately ended up drifting off to a nice mid-afternoon nap in the sun, which is my favorite kind.  I awoke half an hour later, and finally cracked open Omnivore’s Dilemma.

When I got back from the park, Kelsey informed me that the paper I’ve been working on is due March 31^st instead of March 24^th, so I have an extra week to work on it!  I’m incredibly happy about that, as I was starting to realize there was no possible way I was going to finish in time…