La Vie En Rose for 2006 September 25

Chatting with a guy in french today, he said he is getting confused with Turkish, as he is brushing up for going back. I asked when is he going back? And he said December, want to come? Yes, I'd love to, esp. for $500 round trip, but if I go anywhere in December it's to Britain. Though I'm dying to go to Turkey, esp with a Turkish speaker. It might be better in spring or summer when there is sun.

I dropped by my professor's office to quickly discuss research topics for her class & ended up staying nearly an hour discussing applying to PHD programs etc. I'm going back next week with my CV & spreadsheet to formulate a "5 point plan" or something.

Added to this I panicked this morning about PHD language requirements. I think I am taking care of the French pretty well, although this class is a lower level than I expected I'm making the most of it & really studying & practising. Doesn't change the fact that I need TWO and there are very few places in the world where one can learn Serbian. I might have to learn German after all, which wouldn't hurt anything but time. But then I remembered hearing about another summer course in Novi Sad... I loved Novi Sad. Exit festival anyone? I really don't think I was made to live on this continent.

I had a real moment yesterday. I decided to mop the floor with the foolish optimism that maybe someone would want to see the house today (assuming it actually ever gets on the market). I got the water and the mop and the mop spongey part absolutley disinigrated the moment it hit water, but I didn't notice it until there was a huge stripe of disintregated mop bits on the floor. Now that I think about it, this is probably due to using the mop to wipe up that super-crazy ZAP! crap the last time I cleaned the kitchen floor... two months ago. I bought an extra mop head when I bought the mop, but where did I put it? In the cupboard, sure, but it wasn't there so chances are I packed it, and in which box? There was another mop head which didn't fit on the mop, tho I gave it my best shot, and I ended up having to use the mop head solo on my hands & knees to clean up best I could. My life was so difficult, it was the most difficult life that has ever been lived. This mop disintregrating business was the last thing a poor, hardworking soul like me needed. And to add to the unfairness of it all, I couldn't even complain about the unfairness of it all to the world (count yourselves lucky) because I didn't have internet at home). Which I need to do FRENCH HOMEWORK. Woe is I. *eyes roll*