Hope It Gets Colder {Week 38}

Late again. Just when I thought I was finally on schedule my plans fall through! Anyway, the blog will always update...even from beyond the grave! No, it won't. But wouldn't it be nice? 

Before I get into the week I have to say that this was almost a post with no pics because I realized as I was snapping some stuff with my camera that I couldn't transfer any of the pics to my PC! More on how I resolved that later... this week started as such:

Week 38.

Alice had sent me some very cute stickers and I finally got the courage to use some of them. School is in full swing, for me also even though I'm 26. I go to language school, okay?! I picked the very scholarly looking ones (the backpack, ruler, sharpener, pencil, eraser, calculator, and apple). Using any of the stickers Alice gifted me is so hard... what if I stick 'em in bad or want to use them for something else?! I'm struggling out here. 

Guess what? I can finally upload all the pics I took with my new camera! Here's a preview:

Chillin' in the kitchen.

My mum.

Anyway, the week itself. On Monday I went to class as usual. An old friend, that had a wedding last summer, texted me and we had a nice chat. In French! She's a native speaker so it was mostly me trying very hard. I'm pretty behind on my special movie watching quest for this October but I believe in myself. 14 movies to go!

Tuesday was another day of class, been reading a lot. I think I forgot to mention it in my previous post but I've finally felt brave enough to start Jason Molina's biography. Honestly, the more I learn about some musician or creator I like, the less I usually like them. But it's not really about liking them. If their art is so important maybe it's worth unraveling the worst about them, even if it ends in you never touching their art again. So far I've just been surprised about Jason Molina, at least his childhood. Kind of weird. He collected knick knacks, random debris, and trinkets and kept them almost altar-like. That's word-by-word what I did as a child too. Weird. There's more important stuff but for some reason I just didn't see that coming.

Outfit for class.

On Wednesday I had a day off but I actually felt pretty terrible. Took a nap for like 2 hours, flanked by cats on all sides, after we watched the Cube with Mo and Marta. On DVD! So we browsed the bonus content too, duh. Before that Mo left super early, at like 6 AM, to go to Bordeaux to do document stuff but the train got stopped not even halfway to the next town. Because of an unattended luggage. Anyway, he had to get off at the next town and luckily Monique picked him up. He also took the time and swapped the French copy of Skyrim for Alien vs. Predator. Mum's friend Audrey also dropped by and we had a chat. It's funny when you can chat with your mum's friends, like a real grown-up. You know with the amount of time I have to bring up that I'm all grown up, I feel like it's doing damage to my reputation of serious maturity. What reputation? I need to stop making shit up.

On Thursday our teacher, Aicha, was taking time off so we had a replacement teacher and a whole class on environmentalism and sustainability. It was pretty good until she made us watch a video, it was honestly way too difficult for most of the class but we had a fun time glancing at each other in pain. Finally it was over when the teacher decides to tell us: 'Okay, let's watch it again!'. I'm so glad my train leaves a little early. One of our classmates also really cracked us up because she has 5 pencil cases. Like, I thought I packed a little much but she's breaking new ground here.

On Friday Maria drove me to class as there has been a two-day strike going on and I wasn't sure if the trains would run as usual. She's such a nice lady. We had a different replacement teacher today and we covered the symbols of France, important holidays, and French values. It was pretty great because those that I didn't know I was able to guess pretty easily. I'm really broke now though so it's been kind of hard.

On Saturday we did a little of the cleaning job, it should hold us over til next month. I didn't feel amazing but did some research into the Alien TTRPG. Everyone in the family loves Alien so I was thinking that on some weekend I could surprise them and run an Alien session, probably the Chariot of the Gods scenario. I've played DnD with two different groups but I've never actually DM'ed. But since it's my family it's not like they're gonna know any better. Haha. I am evil.

I finally cleaned my room up nicely enough to take some pics, so, please welcome to my humble abode...

First, my work area.

Random shit on my desk.

Behind my monitor.

DVD collection shelf.

My fave mangas.

Traffic mirror we got at a flea market.

My bags hang on the door.

The bed area!

I don't even like Black Hawk Down that much, but free poster.

Under the bed. One day: TV, PS4, pillow fort.

My CDs.

My beloved green cabinet.

The closet situation.

The pants box.

Hello!

Some handbags.

On Sunday we went to Tom's to play more Eternal Sonata. That is one long ass game but I am determined to finish it. I did not sleep well because I got my period in the middle of the night. Worst time ever.

I ran into a really dumb situation with the camera. First of all, it's a Cybershot so it only takes the moronic proprietary Sony Memory Stick Duo. Fear not for I have an adapter for my PSP. I plug it into the camera when I realize... I don't have my SD card reader... shit! But I do have a cable that connects the PSP to the PC. So this is how the dumbest transfer process ever currently works: I take the pics onto the internal camera memory because I can't figure out how to have it save directly to the SD card. Then I manually move the photos to the SD card on the camera. After, I plug the SD card into the PSP and then plug the PSP into the PC. Transfer the pics. Easy as pie. Okay, I need to at least get an SD card reader to simplify some of the process. But this is the method meanwhile.

I'll be suspending 'Image of the Week' for a short while as I haven't felt inspired by any online pics recently. I'll hopefully take fun pics myself in the next few weeks and have those be genuine pics of the week of my own making. We shall see... 

End of the week!

This Week I'm Excited For...

Maybe not exactly excited, but I'll be happy when it's over: my meeting at the France Travail office will be on the 25th. I just want it to be over...!

Song Of The Week...

I have made a somewhat jangle-pop autumn mix and one of my top songs from it has to be 'Doin' You' by The Connells. The whole album is amazing but this has to be my fave on it right now.