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Jan. 18th, 2008

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Dude. So, so not cool.

Well. We've been pretty excited for the past couple of days around here, because we invited some students over to have dinner at the assistant's apartment. We all cooked something, the students brought some things to drink/eat. It was all going wonderfully, if a little noisily, until I was looking for J and found her in my room, mopping something from my floor. I was surprised, so I asked what had happened, and she explained that M and C, two of the students, had been in my room, basically fucking around with my stuff.

What ended up happening, as far as I've understood, is that M, who was quite drunk, somehow dispensed with a fourth of my previously unopened laundry detergent. Spray from said detergent ended up on my bed. I am sitting next to the spots now, which are not disappearing. I am going to have to run my sheets through the laundry, again. Meaning I have to take them to the laundromat and pay for a cycle. At least they already have some detergent on them.

He also apparently got some in his hair, and used my towel in the bathroom to wash his hair. I learned this when I saw J in the bathroom rinsing my towel out into the tub. But wait, there's more. A bunch of detergent got on my desk, soaking several piles of papers and an old medicine bottle. The stuff that landed on the floor also got onto a bunch of my electrical chords, and a power bar (extension chord? you know, the thingy you plug into one electrical outlet to get multiple outlets). I meticulously cleaned whatever I could off of my computer chord, my phone chord, and my lamp chord, but there is still detergent inside the power bar. It's translucent, so I can see where there is some stuck next to a metal part on the inside. What I am most worried about, however, is my computer. Thank god it didn't catch the full brunt of whatever happened, but I did find some detergent next to the battery, which I took out and wiped down, on my touch pad (which has that sort of alkaline feel of detergent, despite my scrubbing at it for a considerable amount of time), and on several keys. I can't tell if it got anywhere else. I am taking it to a Mac place tomorrow and having someone take a look at it. I am quite nervous. I rely quite a bit on my computer.

Apart from this, my deodorant was left open on my desk, and some of it had been scratched off the top. My glasses cleaner stuff was put on a shelf with the cap shoved on incorrectly. Some of my rapidly disappearing face lotion had been squeezed out directly onto a wooden shelf, right next to the bottle. Another bottle had a cap taken off and it was lying on it's side, and another bottle of hair stuff had been moved around. Some of the American money I had on my desk got soaked in laundry detergent, and my room smells ... fresh, but heavy, in that chemical sort of way.

I am pretty upset. The thing is, I didn't realize how bad it was until they had left. It was a little crazy, cause there were a lot of people (not that many, I guess, maybe 7? not including me, J, and C) and most of them were leaving, and so I said goodbye, and came back to assess damages. That's when I realized that there was detergent on my computer, and many other places, and that other stuff had been touched. I am so thankful J found them and said, um, what the crap are you doing, get out, cause if she hadn't, I'm pretty sure it would have been a lot worse. I sent an email to another student who was here, asking for these two students' email addresses so that I can talk to them about what happened. I would like to know, pretty much, who did it, and what they could possibly have been thinking. The sad thing is, I am totally surprised. I never would have expected such disrespectful behavior in terms of another person's belongings, from anyone in this group. So. I've lost an electrical power strip, a fourth of a bottle of concentrated detergent, and most of my day tomorrow due to visits to the laundromat and the mac store. And some lotion. And the money for the laundry. And the sleep I am losing now because I'm pissed off. So. Yeah. A discussion will happen. And this is where it will just probably be awkward, cause, we're so close in age, but there's still that teacher/student vibe that I know will come up. I really need to talk to them about what happened, but I'm hoping it won't affect how they react to me in class, and it would be really nice if they just apologize and go with it, and aren't embarrassed, cause, you know, it's not like I have an excess of friends over here.

GaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhHH!
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Nov. 10th, 2007

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Holy Shit I'm 23...

In other news, I just had a horrible thought. There is an analytical writing section of the GRE. Will I have to write using a French keyboard? Cause... I don't think I can do it very fast. It's quite different. My periods will be colons, and my a's will be q's, and ... and... Fuck.

Nerd )

Nov. 8th, 2007

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Insert Incomprehensible Noise of Frustration *here*

Waaaaaaa!!!!! Soooo mad!

I just tried to use the Kaplan GRE test prep CD on my mac, and was having trouble so I opened the user guide, and sure enough, it is designed only for use on PCs. What. What is that. It probably says that somewhere in the book, but not in an easily visible or obvious place. And I'm really mad. Cause I was going to practice once I got to Paris. And now I probably can't. And I paid more for a book with a cd. DAMN it. Well. Right. Perfect. So this makes me even more glad that I changed my ticket to leave Sunday morning. That way I will have more time to study with actual tests. Or test. Depending on what's on the website.

Really. WTF.
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Oct. 12th, 2007

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Um...

Yeah, it should NOT be this expensive to fly Strasbourg-Florence...
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Sep. 16th, 2007

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Most recently in the preparing to leave saga

I just keep losing things. This is no good at all. I lost my phone days after I got home, I apparently have lost a boot, and now I have found that I've lost my USB cable that connects my camera to my phone. I am going to best buy tomorrow to try and find a replacement, and I did some research to find out exactly what I'm looking for - a USB cable with a Mini 14 Pin head. I think it's 14, cause I counted the grooves on my camera port, and it looks like 14, but it's so tiny I can't be sure. But when I looked the 14 pin thing up, it came up with Fuji, so I guess that is a good sign. Fucking fuck.

So. Tomorrow, Best Buy:
1 - USB/Camera Cable
2 - Battery Alarm Clock (fucking voltage difference...)
3 - Additional Rechargeable Batteries
4 - Headset for Skype calls

I hate money.

On the plus side? Looking around for camera stuff, I found an online guide (I lost the original paper version... actually, I think it may be in my filing cabinet, but I don't know where my mother put that. I should probably follow up on that...) and it's been super helpful with the camera. Except that I still can't put any of the pictures on my computer cause I lost the freaking cable. ... *phew* *calm self* But yes, so now I can press buttons without it making the loud beeping noises. I really am useless with some technology. I think I'm just afraid that I am going to break it somehow, press something that causes some sort of irrevocable damage. But the online guide, yes, wonderful. I think I am more comfortable reading directions and things like that online than on paper, just because it feels easier to take what I need without being bogged down by all the other information. It's odd, because usually I prefer paper, but I suppose that's just for things I actually need to read and spend time with, articles and whatnot. Huh.
Also exciting - mom gave me a bag. And it's cute. It's a tan leather messenger, and it will definitely come in handy because it closes and because I can wear it cross-body style which is easier to carry/move with. Ah. That reminds me. Hip is acting up again, I feel like I did sophomore year when I felt like I needed to be stretched on a rack. I have been trying different things to deal with it, but so far nothing has worked. I'm going to try to make a bikram class before leaving the states in Four Days. *Insert excited/nervous "aaaaehyunh?" here*

Ok. I feel like this post isn't particularly interesting, so I will stop now.

Meh.

Nov. 15th, 2006

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Um. So I'm reading this 1935 paper to find more data for my thesis? And I never realized how handy conventional descriptive notation was. I mean, I understood that it was important, because, hey, otherwise maybe your 'b' would sound like my 'i'. And that would be no good. But really. The author is using numbers to describe tone in this language, which I have seen before, but not in a context used functionally by linguists. And I think that people gave different numbers to the same tones in different languages. Anyway, so I was sifting through this big word list looking at the author's notation and trying to find words that I have in a list of words with modern transcriptions, and I thought I had decoded it, but something is screwy cause she's ending up with the wrong tone patterns on certain words. So either she's wrong, or my other source (whom EVERYBODY and their mother has since used) is wrong. Fuck.
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