Frog Blog

yesterday, by a stroke of luck, i was able to outsmart the school's computer system and accessed my hotmail account, which is usually blocked. today, however, i can't make it work. so sad. another thing that eats me is that just recently hotmail gave everyone 250 gigs, er something... so now my saved messages only take up 1 percent of the space alotted to me. grrr. i had to delete and save onto disk many of the old messages i'd had in hotmail before i left because my account was getting too big.

dontcha hate it when your jeans are clean but they don't smell clean? it's the price i pay for going out to restaurants with smokers and greasy cheesy food.

last night the other assistants at my school and i had a little pizza and wine party. there's a pizza place nearby where you can buy two medium sized pizzas for 16 euros on the weekends. they were pretty good, but they weren't cut into slices. i saw pints of haagen daaz there for 6.50 euros!!! i love me the haagen daaz, but not for that price.

we had some wine last night, too, and n. bought some 7-up which tasted so good but so sweet. it's funny the things i haven't eaten since i've been here. i'd really like a taco. or some good sushi (i hear there's a sushi place in town but have yet to go). i would also like some scrambled eggs, bacon, hashbrowns and toast, please. actually, i'd just kill for some toast, or an english muffin. i'm considering buying a big toaster oven that also doubles as a conventional oven...

not that i don't dig the french food, of course-- where else can you get such amazing pastries and cheese and yogurt? but once in a while i get a craving for cheerios.

today it's grey and cold and rainy. there's a big marathon in town tomorrow so i may try to watch part of it. most of the roads will be closed to allow the runners to run. i spied a weather report on tv while waiting for the pizza last night and it said it's supposed to be about 18 degrees in montpellier. 28 centigrade equals 82 farenheit, so 18 should be, what, in the 60s? better than the 8 or 9 degrees we have here.