Projects

My first days back were tough, mainly because I couldn't eat. Something wicked had anchored itself in my stomach, and it meant that every time I ate, I felt nauseous for half an hour and then spent the next three hours running to the toilet.

BUT, the good news is that I went to the pharmacy and the nice man gave me some pills to "clean out the system," as he put it. My insides are all sparkly now, and I managed to eat some rice pudding today, which means things are pretty much back on track. Yesterday, I even managed to stomach a screening of "Super Size Me," a flick that I found pretty entertaining and not an entire waste of money.

Now that I'm better, I'm all about projects. I have two days before I leave for the US again, and apparently I need to wash my floors, reorganize all of my paperwork, pay all of my bills, and end world hunger before I leave.

I've applied to a few jobs in the last few days, in case the assistantship thing falls through this year. I'm also thinking I'm going to give freelancing a try this year... the worst that can happen is I can get rejected multiple times. I have a few ideas for articles, and I'm thinking I'll write them when I get back to Paris in September. Then I'll try to sell them. I don't exactly know how to go about query letters and all that mumbo-jumbo, but that's what online guides are for. Oddly, I feel like something might pull through. I really never feel that way when it comes to jobs, so this is a strange thing indeed.

Meanwhile, I really need to make this web site look better, and I need to fix the assistants site. I don't know what's wrong with it, and it's really hot in Paris right now. It's breaking my usual concentration.

Come to think of it, so is the seven-year-old who is living with us semi-indefinetly. A good kid, but I'm spending all day tomorrow at the waterpark with him, so I don't see how that world hunger thing is going to get done before sundown. There's always Wednesday, though.