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tenlittlebullets) wrote2008-10-04 06:38 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2008-10-04 06:38 pm
I love fall.
:D I cleaned and redecorated my room today! I am a cheapass, so instead of buying posters I went to the library and printed out the most high-resolution images I could find of the art I wanted. So now I have "Ophelia" and "The Siren" by Waterhouse, "The Huguenot" and "Autumn Leaves" by Millais, "Romeo and Juliet" by Dicksee, "Hypatia" by Mitchell, and "Sappho and Erinna" by Solomon on my walls. I also put up the blacklight Christmas lights.
I think I scare my French class. We've been studying Haussmann's renovations of Paris, and while everyone else was talking about promenades on the grands boulevards and public parks and department stores and gas lamps, I was breaking in with things like "You know why those roads are wide and straight and paved, right? Because you can't march troops and cannon down a winding medieval street, and you can't build a barricade on a giant boulevard with no paving stones!" and "And then there was the cholera. And the sewer system. Oh boy, the sewer system."
Also yesterday was Mountain Day! For those who don't go to schools with a similar tradition, the president of the college picks a gorgeous fall day and rings all the bells at the crack of dawn to announce that classes are cancelled and we should all go enjoy the weather. So a group of seven of us took the bus out to the middle of nowhere, then walked another mile into nowhere to this cute little orchard where we all went apple-picking. Yesterday was not exactly gorgeous--chilly and occasionally rainy--but after we'd been walking a while the weather was quite enjoyable. And I got fresh apples and cider. Mmmmm.
I think I scare my French class. We've been studying Haussmann's renovations of Paris, and while everyone else was talking about promenades on the grands boulevards and public parks and department stores and gas lamps, I was breaking in with things like "You know why those roads are wide and straight and paved, right? Because you can't march troops and cannon down a winding medieval street, and you can't build a barricade on a giant boulevard with no paving stones!" and "And then there was the cholera. And the sewer system. Oh boy, the sewer system."
Also yesterday was Mountain Day! For those who don't go to schools with a similar tradition, the president of the college picks a gorgeous fall day and rings all the bells at the crack of dawn to announce that classes are cancelled and we should all go enjoy the weather. So a group of seven of us took the bus out to the middle of nowhere, then walked another mile into nowhere to this cute little orchard where we all went apple-picking. Yesterday was not exactly gorgeous--chilly and occasionally rainy--but after we'd been walking a while the weather was quite enjoyable. And I got fresh apples and cider. Mmmmm.