A couple of hours on, as predicted....

Today was strange, fun, tiring, and many other things. It started out with me helping a French girl named Sandrine correct her paper on (in English) and translation of (into French) a novel by Linda Hogan entitled Power. I'd agreed to do this a few days ago, and I was getting paid for it (I figured 20 euros/hr was approximately equivalent to $25/hr, which is the going rate for grad. student tutoring at home). Besides, it means that I now know of a book I'd quite like to read at some point. But it also meant having to get up at 7:30, which didn't allow me to start catching up at all on my sleep (in fact, it helped deprive me of more of it).

Class was a mixture of stupidly hot and wearying room (our usual room, which we were back in today), much nicer (read: colder) room that we moved into after the break, and a large coffee during said break. There are also two new girls in our class, from Finland. (Have I actually listed the nationalities that have cropped up in the class? I don't think so. ( Here they are, and apologies if it's actually a repetition. )

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After class, I headed over to the Louvre again, since Monday's the other day of the week it's open late. ( My second trip to the Louvre )

Oh, and apparently today was Bloom's Day, which I really ought to have known. I'm not entirely sure if there's a suitable way to celebrate the holiday, though, anyway.

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I'm thinking about an icon. I can't make it till I get home, so I'm posting the idea here lest I forget. And in case anyone wants to comment.

[Picture of Xander?] -> ["Xander's Women"] -> [pic of Cordy] -> [pic of Anya] -> [pic of Andrew] -> ["Oops."]

I'm thinking that'll just about stretch the size limit for icons, so probably including random one-offs like the demon aren't going to happen. Should it have Willow? Anyone else?

Huh.

Turns out that Richard (Australian guy in my class) is Jewish (well, half, anyway, but that's how he identifies himself). Would never have guessed.

I'm possibly doing my presentation in French on cheese.

Tomorrow I'm planning to visit the Museum of Wine. And I can't really imagine that anything particularly interesting is going to happen tonight that will merit posting about, so....