Finissimo!

It's hot! hot! hot! and I'm finished with exams. This last one was a real doozy (everybody agreed on this during post-exam chat time) but it's over and I feel light and breezy.

Silly, really, because I still have TONS of work left to do for my degree, but at least the sitting-in-hot-classrooms part of it is over. The only regret I have at this point is that the Sorbonne still hasn't posted our scores for the exams we took two weeks ago. I don't think I will be going back to look (a nice three-month break from the building will do me good, eh?) but I have relegated the task to my classmates.

Today is the F�te de la Musique in Paris, and biking back from school this evening, I passed by several oddly-assorted bands playing mediocre music at high volumes. Everybody in town seems to adore this city-wide party, but I tend to pass on it. I don't know why I dislike it so much -- I think it is the same problem as New Year's: everybody is out but nobody really knows where to go. I also have a serious issue with hearing different bands/music styles at once. The clashing makes me dizzy and it always has. Still, it was nice taking my time coming home, and my usual walk to the grocery was accompanied by a terrible all-women brass band that was, despite a lack of skill, REALLY getting funky with it. The cutest part? Catching the eye of a little kid in a stroller who was dancing to the music without a beat.

Anyway, today has been lovely. My sister called me on a drunk-and-dial mission, and we giggled for an hour straight. I wasn't the drunk one, of course, but I still chuckled quite a bit. Then I got up, stopped by the local caf� with The Boy for awhile, and looked over my notes. Biked to school, took the exams, felt great. Am now sitting in the breeze in my house, thinking about how good my salad is going to taste when the sun goes down.

I work all day tomorrow but I think I am going to spend my first "real" day of summer just doing some stuff around the house... I'm more tired than I realize and I sort of just want to bask in the relief for awhile.

Ahhhh...