I've been trying to avoid posting because I did not want to recognize the fact that I'm back in the states and my semester is over, but I guess it's inevitable.
For your amusement, the gingerbread community I made with Fiore and co. Yes, my house is the one with the GIGANTIC snowman leaning up against it because otherwise it would have fallen down. Er, I mean, my house is the one with the friendly snowman guard relaxing merrily against a gingerbread dwelling.
I'm going to miss Bath and my Northampton disfunctional family : /
A little anecdote from today...Burg and I finally bought Big Issues (for those of you who don't know, The Big Issue is a magazine in England that unemployed people sell, they're all over). We went to my favorite purveyor of The Big Issue, the man that stands in the alley above Ben's Cookies. Today he was offering a free animal with your copy of The Big Issue (in the past he has offered free smiles, done a little dance, serenaded people, etc). So we chose penguins and received the invisible Jim and Bob, complete with invisible cages.
EDIT: I've since read The Big Issue and while I recognize what it is doing for the homeless community...it really is a crappy magazine. Good thing it had George Michael on the cover so it wasn't a complete waste...
I think this picture sums up the 29 Christmas Party nicely
I'll now return to my bed, where I've been recovering for approximately 20 hours.
Oh but first, one of my favorite pics of the evening:
Under the chair: where jello shots go to die. And then be pried off the chair leg the next day.
Um so I'm ridiculously tired right now. We got back from Stratford tonight to discover that the glorious wireless from a few days ago is STILL HERE and I just can't handle it. I've lived a surprisingly technology free semester what with no house internet and no cellphone, and now *bam* I have this and I'm abusing it. I need to go to bed. Someone tell me to go to bed.
I saw three plays in three days and I loved it. I think I could see a play every day and not get bored. Well unless it was a truly heinous play. Anyway, we saw three Royal Shakespeare Company productions, Merry Wives of Windsor the Musical (with Judi Dench, no less...*drop*), Pericles, and The Winter's Tale. They were all enjoyable, although Merry Wives wins for awesome cheesiness and The Winter's Tale wins for powerful acting. I guess Pericles can win for obscurity and creepiness. I don't think I could live in Stratford considering there's nothing to do past 10pm but it was fun and Christmasy and I caved to the deprivation of an entire semester and went to Starbucks three times.
Shakespeare's house was just as uneventful as it was the last time I was there. Saying I've been there twice is like the opposite of a *drop*. If I dropped that someone would just be like "Hey can you pick that back up, we don't want it lying around here."
And this is why I need to go to bed right now.
I've been to many many museums this semester. So many that I don't think I need to visit another art museum for a long time. Yet I don't know that any of them were quite as amusing as the Museum of Eroticism.
Anna and Josh think it's better than the Louvre...(I'm not sure if they're really comparable.)
Other Paris highlights:
-i love pastries
-la musee d'orsay is free if you (like the museum) are 20
-the catacombs: for everyone who enjoys being creeped out
-our dirty dirty hostel where the wallpaper was peeling and we slept under our coats instead of the blankets
oh wait, strike that last bullet from the list.
Tomorrow it's off to Stratford for a few days which should be a thoroughly Shakespearean time. I'm so close to home I can almost taste the La Cocina...
