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tenlittlebullets) wrote2010-06-22 08:56 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2010-06-22 08:56 pm
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Last day in Paris
I did get things done today. Finalized my grade paperwork--managed to oversleep and miss an appointment with a professor, and the associate prof said this guy waited quite a while because he wanted to write on the paperwork that I was one of the top three students in the class. Which just stomped on all my depression triggers (because even the depression cannot fool me into thinking God didn't give me brains, but it can jump up and down on my chest shouting that I'm doing nothing with what I was given, that I'm wasting my life and any talent I have, that I'm unreliable and irresponsible and a disappointment and a lazy shit, etc.) and I felt pretty horrible for a while, but for once I did the smart thing and fought it off by getting more stuff done. So the paperwork is now in the hands of the associate professor, who will give it to the prof and get it mailed off, and I've arranged for my cell phone subscription to be cancelled and my bank account closed, and I've bought various gifts and mailed off various things. Everything replaceable has been entrusted to the French postal service and their cheap surface-mail option for shipping books--I hemmed and hawed over whether to send the "Paris au temps de Balzac" book, but so far all three packages I've sent have not only arrived, they've arrived twice as fast as they were supposed to. So everything is in the post except my Pléiade edition of Les Mis, the Carnavalet "Paris au temps des Misérables" booklet, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
coloneldespard's drawings, and my playbills and souvenir brochures. It's an odd feeling to be going home with more shoes than books.
Other than obligatory stuff, I've been doing more photo runs of Les Mis locations and visiting all the small offbeat museums that I haven't been to yet. Musée Dupuytren yesterday, which was mildly disturbing and Stephen Maturin would've loved it, and Salon Frédéric Chopin/Musée Adam Mickiewicz today. It was lovely and I still kind of want to learn Polish.
And then I said goodbye to Paris by getting a triple Berthillon sorbet and having dinner at l'As du Falafel. I was considering rounding things off with Les Mis student rush, but there were no interesting understudies on and anyway it seems kind of fitting for London cast change to be my last Les Mis for a while. (Speaking of which, I think I'm nearing 100 times seeing LM, which is terrifying.)
...I don't wanna leeeeaaaave.
coloneldespard's drawings, and my playbills and souvenir brochures. It's an odd feeling to be going home with more shoes than books.Other than obligatory stuff, I've been doing more photo runs of Les Mis locations and visiting all the small offbeat museums that I haven't been to yet. Musée Dupuytren yesterday, which was mildly disturbing and Stephen Maturin would've loved it, and Salon Frédéric Chopin/Musée Adam Mickiewicz today. It was lovely and I still kind of want to learn Polish.
And then I said goodbye to Paris by getting a triple Berthillon sorbet and having dinner at l'As du Falafel. I was considering rounding things off with Les Mis student rush, but there were no interesting understudies on and anyway it seems kind of fitting for London cast change to be my last Les Mis for a while. (Speaking of which, I think I'm nearing 100 times seeing LM, which is terrifying.)
...I don't wanna leeeeaaaave.