Yet again I'm slacking on the updates, what a surprise! My new month resolution will be to post here more often... we'll see how long that happens.
So Paris was fun - Katie's foot wasn't hurting this time so we got to walk around more, Shelby was in town, and all the museums were actually open this time as compared to when I was there last fall! I got in around noon-ish on Saturday after the most frightening walk through Glasgow at 6 in the morning in the dark park to get to the bus station to get to the airport. First I met Katie's new roommate, then we hung out for a bit and then went to the Musee d'Orsay where there was a ridiculously long line, unexpected for a cold January weekend. Fortunately it moved fast AND we got in free! Yay for European student ID cards and for Katie's German passport (makes everyone more trusting that I'm actually Scottish and not American...). The Orsay was fun, they had an Art Nouveau exhibit going on that, while ridiculously crowded, was very interesting. Unfortunately they didn't have my Mucha prints so I wasn't able to replace my posters... if anyone is going to Prague in the near future please please please talk to me so I can convince you to get them for me!!
Anyway, Saturday night Katie and I went to go get fondue and found a place for only 12 euros each, not a bad deal in Paris. It was really yummy but ridiculously filling and we weren't able to eat all of it. Then I got a lemon crepe for dessert - mmm!! We hung out and watched Angels and Demons for the rest of the night.
Sunday we slept in late and got a French king cake for breakfast/lunch/brunch! We met up with Shelby and went back to Katie's apartment to eat it. Then we went with Shelby to the Pompidou Centre where we got in free again!! Not paying for things is one of my favorite things in the world! The Pompidou was nice, but they had this huge feminism exhibit taking up most of the 2 floors so a lot of their permanent collection wasn't on display. Fortunately most of their Matisse collection was hanging so I got to drool over that for a while :) And buy a poster. Which unfortunately keeps falling down so desperate measures will have to be taken to get it to stay up.
Sunday night was, of course, the NFC Championship. And Katie fell asleep. So I stayed up on my makeshift bed and watched the entire game, not falling asleep until 5. But it was so worth it, because, as I'm sure everyone knows by now, the Saints are going to the Super Bowl!!!!! (there's no way I can express my excitement in a blog, so just trust me, I'm excited.)
Anyway, I got back to Glasgow on Monday afternoon and have been basically lazing around all week. My schedule here is so easy it's almost ridiculous. As it is, I should probably be working on some of the papers and stuff I have to write this semester. Actually I've already started research on some of them so I'm way ahead of schedule... my normal schedule at least. Of course it doesn't help that I've started watching 24 and am already addicted even though I've only just passed the halfway mark of the first season. It's been very slow going as I can only find the episodes on megavideo and ever since they changed their stupid website I can only watch an episode at a time at most before it cuts me off.
Well, I should get back to doing actual things now I suppose... I'm trying to find some easy recipes so I can actually cook here and not just survive on apples and cereal and tea. Not that I don't like those things, but they can get a little old.
Au revoir,
Katherine
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